Maybe not yet, but a re-release or two could still make TFA first domestic billion dollar movie, no? See it before it leaves the theaters, see it before Episode VIII, whatever. Even with increased drops it should still crawl to at least $950 with how humongous the starting point is, no? JW still made over $150 mil after $50 mil third weekend.
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Wkd Box Office 0101-0316 - Hate flows through BO as TFA eyes all-time DOM record
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ryutaro's mama
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Only needs...lol.
I'm not saying that it will, but it could now.
UberTag
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It's riding on the success of Russell's past two films.
That... or people thought it was a spinoff of Inside Out and were left with nothing but sadness upon exiting the theatre.
What I like most about this movie is that Ferrell and Wahlberg get to ruin the same movie instead of ruining two separate ones. I hope their next project is with Adam Sandler.
Those films are a license to print money. The Smurfs blew their load and fizzled out after half as many movies.
They just need to put it back in theaters for a limited week or two run prior to Star Wars Episode VIII. It'll get over that milestone without breaking a sweat.
CrichtonKicks
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The Finest Hours looks like the type of movie that could have done decently had it opened on Christmas. But late January? Yikes.
ryutaro's mama
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Show your work.
Unless TFA takes off bigger than Transformers and F&F7 in China it's really doubtful. Ticket sales are slowing down now so the legs won't be strong enough to beat Avatar.
BronsonLee
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What the hell at the Hateful 8 reviews being... so meh/ What the hell happened to my favourite director? Its not a good movie?
It's...worth watching?
Not really. This weekend was 35% of its opening weekend, and it's not exhibiting the kind of legs needed for another $1.3b (even if China hits say, $400m which is itself unlikely). School is back in session, so the weekdays will be back to <$10m each.
$2.1 - $2.4b is likely.
Trickster
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How? Earn a billion in china once it's out there?
What the hell at the Hateful 8 reviews being... so meh/ What the hell happened to my favourite director? Its not a good movie?
It's a divisive film, to say the least. It's easily his most nihilistic film since Reservoir Dogs, and it takes it a step further than even that one. I think a lot of people are surprised that it's not exactly a super fun time cinematic mash-up like most of his films have been.
Did not realize that when typing it, fixed it so there was no issues.
ryutaro's mama
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Discotheque gonna punch someone.
Scorpion Soldier
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I was it Friday and I thought it was great, but it's definitely not the best. I found it to be very similar to Reservoir Dogs (which is a very good thing), but the pacing dragged on quite a bit towards the third act. Worth a watch, but not Tarantino's best.
Cow Mengde
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How the hell did Avatar have legs like that? I remember the hype disappeared almost immediately after people saw the movie.
Jack The Nipper
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I am in china as some of you know and I don't know if I will go see it the first day its released here.
Most of you have seen it, sucks that I still havent seen it for sure. I'm curious to see how many screens its on and such. There are hundreds of cinemas around though so I dont even know the best place to go watch it. I will assume there is an actual imax around here somewhere. Atleast I saw a big building that said imax but there are also small cinemas by imax too as I see them a lot here as well?
Can anyone help me out and see how many actual imax cinemas are actually in china. Not sure if my broken google search will help me or not. My chinese def. wont either.
And I just hate big crowds, even though chinese people are a lot different (Id imagine a fully packed chinese cinema would be completely quite and not crazy at all)
Every time I have went to the cinema here the only thing to annoy me were a few bright cell phones (which are even worse with 3d glasses) lol
I may go see it next monday actually when people are at work and school.
Most of you have seen it, sucks that I still havent seen it for sure. I'm curious to see how many screens its on and such. There are hundreds of cinemas around though so I dont even know the best place to go watch it. I will assume there is an actual imax around here somewhere. Atleast I saw a big building that said imax but there are also small cinemas by imax too as I see them a lot here as well?
Can anyone help me out and see how many actual imax cinemas are actually in china. Not sure if my broken google search will help me or not. My chinese def. wont either.
And I just hate big crowds, even though chinese people are a lot different (Id imagine a fully packed chinese cinema would be completely quite and not crazy at all)
Every time I have went to the cinema here the only thing to annoy me were a few bright cell phones (which are even worse with 3d glasses) lol
I may go see it next monday actually when people are at work and school.
ryutaro's mama
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Not sure where you lived but this wasn't the case at all.
ElBoxyBrown
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The Revenant could be a threat to TFA if TFS doesn't make it's money this week.
Will Ferrell still has legs. No one cares about Wahlberg and Sandler.
Perhaps in your circle of friends and family, but it was huge for months. Totally dominated not just the box office but the pop culture and entertainment news for that time.
Bobby Roberts
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Hey K-Swiss, post those charts you posted in the last thread in this one.
edit: looks like X05 had the same idea, he just actually went and got 'em instead of just lazily asking for 'em again, like I did.
edit: looks like X05 had the same idea, he just actually went and got 'em instead of just lazily asking for 'em again, like I did.
Wait, not even $90M? Bomba
Good to see that Creed broke $100M, and seems like Spectre is trying to crawl its way to $200M, seems like it'll barely make it. Also not entirely sure that Mockingjay P2 will cross $300M, looks like the only in the series that won't.
From the previous thread:
Good that someone liked the one I made
sorry bobby
Good to see that Creed broke $100M, and seems like Spectre is trying to crawl its way to $200M, seems like it'll barely make it. Also not entirely sure that Mockingjay P2 will cross $300M, looks like the only in the series that won't.
From the previous thread:
Wasn't JW thing a "re-expansion" rather than a re-release?
Lovely graphsI decided to make international and worldwide comparison charts in the spirit of the domestic one posted on the previous page. I used old box office reports to plot the first 8 weekends plus LTD gross for every film over $900M international (other than Titanic since that run took forever to get going).
NOTE: Weekend 3 international and worldwide grosses for The Force Awakens have been estimated based on Friday and early Saturday data. On the scale of this graph, estimates should be close enough to the actual numbers (within $10M OS/$15M WW) to give you a good idea of how Star Wars stacks up.
NOTE 2: If people use this info to comment on the popularity of Star Wars vs other films and you disagree with them, don't blame me.
Good that someone liked the one I made
You'll see as many when EpVIII makes *only* ~$650M domestic and 10% less WWNot as big as the previous thread, but almost 3000 posts again. Way over 6000 combined.
The only time I see anything generating so many posts is maybe Avatar 2 (specially if it performs less than amazingly
Dreams-Visions
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Avatar was still showing in theaters 4-5 months after release. It had legs because there was no other spectacle like it in theaters.
Trickster
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Not sure what planet you lived on, it sure wasnt earth though. Avatar hype and word of mouth was absolutely insane.
ryutaro's mama
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Darth Sonik
we need more FPS games
TFA could theoretically beat Avatar in every individual market, and still not beat the WW total made in 2009 when the dollar was very weak.
BronsonLee
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KAGARI GODDAMNIT
Bobby Roberts
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You stolered my nickname!
Nah buddy.
Bobby Roberts
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What does this movie end up at if it has something like American Sniper legs for the rest of January? Or are those legs too long to fit Force Awakens?
Soapbox Killer
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I imagine The Force Awakens will re-release this year around the time Rogue One drops. It could be the number one movie in the world twice in the same year 7-9 months apart.
Rogue One does come out in 2016 right?
Rogue One does come out in 2016 right?
ryutaro's mama
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December 2016 for Rogue One, then Episode VIII in May 2017 coinciding with ANH's 40th anniversary.
Bobby Roberts
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Here's the thing - do we really think the movie's only gonna make about 100-150 million for the rest of January/February? After making 740 in three, and scoring 90 mil in its 3rd weekend?
ryutaro's mama
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Depends on how heavily the return to work/school hits a movie like this. This is one you bring the whole family to and if that is sequestered to weekends going forward...idk.
I would be shocked if this movie had $250 left in the tank domestically to get to $1.
The Dutch Slayer
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lololololol point break had a 105 million budget holy moly insane
holy moly insane It's a movie that few people loved, but everyone felt they had to see it. The marketing department did an amazing job selling the 3D as game changing.
added_time
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I think the exact opposite of what you just posted.
I still think $900M is the floor, personally never believed in $1B though.
CassidyIzABeast
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The audience did the job off selling the 3D as game changing. Avatar was all word of mouth.
I did my part for Fury Road!
ryutaro's mama
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I revise my thoughts, upon doing a little mental math,
It's not out of the completely out of question to get to $1. I think it could get there if the 40% drops hold somewhat steady WoW.
If it has a leveling out where it holds at say, $75 for a few weekends, then yeah, it's a lock.
It's not out of the completely out of question to get to $1. I think it could get there if the 40% drops hold somewhat steady WoW.
If it has a leveling out where it holds at say, $75 for a few weekends, then yeah, it's a lock.
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