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xaosslug said:
Disney could (prob. will, eventually) remake ALL of their 'classic' animated films in CGI and make massive BANK.
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No, they won't.
Not while this current regime is alive. Also, their 'classics' are dated concepts in an age where Alvin is the overlord of children's films.
 
shintoki said:
It felt more like Princess and the Frog was appealing to the nostalgic adults who remember the 90's animated films...At least that is what I got from their advertisement campaign. While Alvin clearly went for children.

If they made the advertisements a bit more for children. It probably would have done better.
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In my opinion the Disney marketing machine for their own animated features is fucking retarded. They're all positioned as "TEH DISNEY EVENTZ" and "TEH NEW DISNEY CLASSIC". Protip: nobody gives a fuck about disney's pedigree these days! They need to stop this immediately. Pretty much all of their non-Pixar movies, CG included obviously, have disappointed at the box office.
 
Titanic didn't have a blistering pace, it started off slow and steady and stayed that way through its entire run. Movies tend to be more front-loaded on their box office these days.
 
Mariah Carey said:
They said that about Titanic, too
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Avatar doesn't need to trend like Titanic to beat its box office take. That said, there's no way Avatar will be making $20+ million in its 10th week.
 
duderon said:
Avatar doesn't need to trend like Titanic to beat its box office take. That said, there's no way Avatar will be making $20+ million in its 10th week.
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DanielPlainview said:
THE FUN FACTS:

  • Avatar made an estimated $68.3 million at the domestic BO in it’s third weekend, crushing the previous record of $45 million set by Spider-Man 3.
  • James Cameron will hold the #1 and #2 spots at the worldwide box office by the end of the week, making a grand total of $3 billion on two films.
  • irfan did some compiling in terms of how long it took the top 5 grossers to hit the $1 billion mark. This is what he found:

    1. Titanic took 11 weeks (final: $1.84 billion)
    2. LOTR: Return of the King took 10 weeks (final: $1.12 billion)
    3. Pirates of the Caribean: Dead Man’s Chest took 10 weeks (final: $1.07 billion)
    4. Avatar took 17 days (current total: $1.02 billion)

    5. The Dark Knight only hit it with the small Janurary re-release, making just a hair over $1 billion.
  • The #1 2009 domestic grosser (so far) Transformers Revenge of the Fallen took 114 days to hit $402 million. Avatar will surpass that by next weekend (21 days).
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Hot damn.

can't wait for bluray release.
 
Vic said:
We're getting there!

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It would be perfect if the posters were pixelized as well. :lol
 
Spike Spiegel said:
Titanic didn't have a blistering pace, it started off slow and steady and stayed that way through its entire run. Movies tend to be more front-loaded on their box office these days.
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This is true.

But Avatar has made the same amount of money (more or less) for 3 weekends/2 weeks straight. Avatar hasn't been front loaded at all. Hell, it made more in it's second week.
 
Akira said:
It would be perfect if the posters were pixelized as well. :lol
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If someone knowledgeable could apply a pixelized filter on the posters, he would welcomed :|

edit: found how to do it. new version in progress.

edit 2: not perfect... but I know how to use filters now!

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Since this is the general BO thread and not just Avatar's BO, some highlights IMO;

1. Avatar obviously :P it looks like it can get 550M dom even with normal drops from here. So yeah Ghaleon, I'm now on the Titanic can go down baby bandwagon :P It still needs some extra effort but it has a chance. WW BO is more hard to gauge but I think this can pull in huge numbers from Japan & China (opens there tomorrow) so Titanic's WW BO is also not that safe.
2. Sherlock Holmes, looks like it will end up with ~250M or there abouts like Star Trek. Sequel is a lock.
3. Squekquel will do almost ~275M and will spawn another movie much to our dislike.
4. It's Complicated .. man Meryl Streep is such a BO draw off late, ever since Prada. Her movies are now officially chick magnet category.
5. The Blind Side is Hangover Mark II for Warner Bros. They had zero confidence in the film but after its impressive run so far, they decided add more theatres in its 5th week. It will get about ~250M with a budget of 29M. Another big success for Sandra Bullock after The Proposal.
6. Up in the Air, nothing interesting about it except oscar bait doing well commercially.
7. The Princess and the Frog will now cross 100M for sure which was looking unlikely few weeks ago.
8. Morgans, biggest bomb of the year for Sony. :lol
9. Nine, nothing new oscar bait am fail.
10. Invictus, bomb.
11. Twilight .. OMG it increased this weekend. Summit also added theatres OMG! Looks like a delibrate attempt to get it past Half Blood Prince. :lol Potter fans am upset.
 
I don't care if Cameron made a movie that was just two fat guys having sex for 3 hours. I refuse to bet against this man anymore!
 
Happy to see Holmes do good. Says it has an 80million budget on Wiki. Continues a nice winning streak for Jr.
 
gdt5016 said:
This is true.

But Avatar has made the same amount of money (more or less) for 3 weekends/2 weeks straight. Avatar hasn't been front loaded at all. Hell, it made more in it's second week.
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This is true, as it was true (more or less) for Titanic back in '97. But Titanic kept pulling in big numbers for the next 10 weeks after that... can Avatar do the same? As others have said, its first post-holiday weekend will be telling.
 
irfan said:
11. Twilight .. OMG it increased this weekend. Summit also added theatres OMG! Looks like a delibrate attempt to get it past Half Blood Prince. :lol Potter fans am upset.
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$260 million to go. That's not to knock it's really good legs though.
 
BobFromPikeCreek said:
Wow. Is that was the Avatar poster looks like? It's so shitty.
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It was the (horrific) teaser poster and is on the cover of the soundtrack for some godawful reason.

This is the one-sheet:

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Which would have been great were it not for the giant floating faces.

Few more notes on the box office for Avatar, from browing the boxofficemojo records.

3rd fastest to $300m, and 2nd fastest to $350m.
 
Spike Spiegel said:
This is true, as it was true (more or less) for Titanic back in '97. But Titanic kept pulling in big numbers for the next 10 weeks after that... can Avatar do the same? As others have said, its first post-holiday weekend will be telling.
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Well, since it's pulling in much bigger numbers consistently, it doesn't need to have a constant 10 week run (as in, same numbers over and over) to beat Titanic.
 
I wonder if they will do an Avatar re-release during the summer with extra footage for a limited time.

I certainly don't see them "rushing" to get a DVD/BluRay release out... not when they've pretty much assured a multi-disc, crazy packaging, super ultimate THIS IS THE BIBLE OF GOD DAMN MOVIES edition.

Or maybe Cameron will nix home video until 3D in homes doesn't suck... he's daffy enough. FOX would cry.
 
$670 million internationally this quickly is insane. You know, for all the shit Cameron gets for his obvious and simplistic dialog in Avatar and Titanic, I bet that it really helps with the international box office. Nothing sounds as trite when it's not in your primary language, or written in subtitles. Phrases like "Yeah boy" don't need a lot of tricky translation.
 
I think he was talking about an extended 2D cut for the first release, then a 3D release when the TVs/tech get bigger in the marketplace.
 
GhaleonEB said:
It was the (horrific) teaser poster and is on the cover of the soundtrack for some godawful reason.

This is the one-sheet:

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Which would have been great were it not for the giant floating faces.

Few more notes on the box office for Avatar, from browing the boxofficemojo records.

3rd fastest to $300m, and 2nd fastest to $350m.
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Then pass $400m it's all Avatar
 
gdt5016 said:
Well, since it's pulling in much bigger numbers consistently, it doesn't need to have a constant 10 week run (as in, same numbers over and over) to beat Titanic.
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I never said it would or wouldn't beat Titanic... I just wanted to correct people on saying Titanic had "a blistering pace" which it didn't. Frankly I don't care whether or not it will beat Titanic, as rising ticket prices GUARANTEE that a movie will come along to beat Titanic. Unless, grosses are adjusted for inflation, in which case Titanic isn't even #1 anymore.
 
I caught Avatar for the first time this past weekend, and thought that it was a solid film. I wasn't blown away, and thought that it was a better tech show piece rather than a great film. Plot was average, but serviceable, with some cliches miked in. Personally, it didn't live up to the hype for me, but I still enjoyed it it for the most part.

All of that said, damn, the movie is a force of nature at the box office. Impressive numbers to say the least, and Cameron's return to filmmaking has cemented his legendary status even further.
 
gdt5016 said:
I think he was talking about an extended 2D cut for the first release, then a 3D release when the TVs/tech get bigger in the marketplace.
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No extended cut. Probably just the normal Theatrical Release, With the few minutes they actually cut out that were complete.

I then can see him doing the Extended Cut similar to LOTR which I'm sure Fox will be more than happy with to give him a few million to do and edit. So he can finish up some of the other scenes they shot but need to fill in.

And then finally a 3D cut down the line.
 
Spike Spiegel said:
I never said it would or wouldn't beat Titanic... I just wanted to correct people on saying Titanic had "a blistering pace" which it didn't.
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$30 million was a big weekend in 1997. Titanic even smashed the biggest third weekend and biggest January weekend (which is the exact scenario we're seeing this weekend lol). If Avatar has a "blistering" pace, then surely Titanic did too.
 
$350 million PSSSSHHHH

Adjusted grosses said:
1 Gone with the Wind $1,450,680,400
2 Star Wars $1,278,898,700
3 The Sound of Music $1,022,542,400
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial $1,018,514,100
5 The Ten Commandments $940,580,000
6 Titanic $921,523,500
7 Jaws $919,605,900
8 Doctor Zhivago $891,292,600
9 The Exorcist $793,883,100
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs $782,620,000
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Mariah Carey said:
$350 million PSSSSHHHH
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If you want to play the adjusted numbers game, then please get invent a time machine, take Blu-ray, DVD, TV and such back with you to 1938. :P
 
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