I saw it on Saturday and didn't have to wait in a line. I even got there just 20 minutes before it started. I think the only lines you'll see are for imax showings.
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Wkd Box Office 1218-2015 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m
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Well I think as a genre, you're absolutely right about superhero movies having more narrow appeal, but pointing at TFA as evidence for superiority of a certain style of films, I think that's presumptive. Arguing genre lines will always fall in the absence of quality. Super 8, a blatant homage to Spielberg's movies from the 80s and 90s, didn't set the box office on fire. Star Trek was also trying it's damndest to be Star Wars, and it did great but didn't break records either. Even Jurassic World, despite having many homages to the first movie, didn't really feel like a classic Spielberg film. There's also F7 which is a franchise that's starting to resemble superhero movies more and more.
TFA is great and all but its records will be broken eventually and not necessarily by the next Star Wars either.
in fairness, unobtanium is an obvious reference to a real world colloquialism used by engineers since the fifties.
Affeinvasion
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And the amazing movie known as The Core.
bananafactory
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When will we get actuals for Sunday?
Hibiki Kurosawa
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Almost half way to my prediction for 2015 domestically.
I'm gonna wait and see what it does by the end of this weekend, I think that will give us an idea if it will past Avatar
The force is strong with Ep7. Amazing.
ANH was primarily released well before home video. It's numbers are fairly disingenuous, as if you DIDN'T go to the theater to see it (multiple times), you had no chance of seeing it again, unless it was re-released in the theaters.
Not saying what it did wasn't impressive.. But the air of theatrical movies was way different back then than even compared to the early 80s where rental was just starting to explode.
Confident it will or won't? Right now I'd say it has a very real shot at it. By next weekend the answer should be pretty obvious. Also seems like a very real chance of being only the second movie ever to clear $2B in its initial release.
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That it will pass it, right?
By the way, I hope the amount is updated in the title once it comes out, so we don't need more threads
Considering how shit Jurassic World's marketing was it reaching that number is still really amazing. Star Wars, on the other hand, was EVERYWHERE before launch.
That it will pass it, right?
By the way, I hope the amount is updated in the title once it comes out, so we don't need more threads
That Avatar will remain number one.
I live near Indianapolis and still could get IMAX seats all weekend if I wanted to. /shrug
I live in Sweden and haven't seen a single SW marketing.
Insane Metal
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Woah, JW was literally everywhere here too (Brazil)
But I had no idea it made >500M OW... that's insane.
CrichtonKicks
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Not Thursday- Christmas Eve is always light.
And I don't think it got the Saturday record- think JW may still narrowly hold that.
It was really heavy in the US. I was surprised to hear radio ads even.
Complete blowout here in UK too. Not just the movie, every company has some StarWars related merchandising.
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Exactly.
That it will pass it, right?
By the way, I hope the amount is updated in the title once it comes out, so we don't need more threads
Yes to this. Keep the discussion in the weekly thread.
At 250 it needs a multiplier barely over 3 to surpass Avatar. I can see that happening.
bananafactory
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What? Jurassic World was also everywhere. I mean, not on the level of Star Wars, but what is?
NOLA_Gaffer
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I tried to see Star Wars at 10am Saturday morning. Even when arriving at the theater at 9:15 the showing was sold out. Goddamn.
I ended up buying tickets for the 11am showing and just hanging out in the theater for 90 minutes instead.
I ended up buying tickets for the 11am showing and just hanging out in the theater for 90 minutes instead.
BronsonLee
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Can we use the Starkiller Base on all the other Star Wars box office threads
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Interfectum
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With these numbers getting so high its crazy to see how skewed our perspective has become.
Transformers is nowhere near that much on OW.
BronsonLee
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I'm making a list of how many goddamn people freenudemacusers and G-Fex can trick during this Star Wars nonsense
Interfectum
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Eh, I don't pay much attention to who is "joking" or not. Easier to take their posts at face value than to simply assume sarcasm.
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Sorry to break to you but its Monday.
It was bad in the way they presented it, is what I mean.
Since it's a hot topic and I was curious myself, I "calculated" what Avatar International box office would like in today's currency: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1upQyDP0ATlLlXIUc-sf3Foe4RPNcBus0YJG8c9NGLzw/pubhtml
2009 actual: $1.96 billion*
2015 adjusted: $1.55 billion
It's still ridiculously high and unlikely for Star Wars to reach that adjusted number. As a barometer, Furious 7 made $1.16 billion internationally.
*The total gross is a bit higher at $2.03 billion, but Box Office Mojo info for individual countries only adds up to $1.95 billion.
2009 actual: $1.96 billion*
2015 adjusted: $1.55 billion
It's still ridiculously high and unlikely for Star Wars to reach that adjusted number. As a barometer, Furious 7 made $1.16 billion internationally.
*The total gross is a bit higher at $2.03 billion, but Box Office Mojo info for individual countries only adds up to $1.95 billion.
There's also a column with each country's inflation, but it's impossible to know the actual ticket price change...
Well, I guess there were afraid people would take it the wrong way.
I'm betting they will amp it up for Jurassic World 2.
Chezzymann
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Found this in a star wars forum
damn gimmick posters
freenudemacusers
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*Franchise IP record
BronsonLee
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This is a mistake
Always assume they are attempting a Sarcasm Solar Flare
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Well the Chinese remade isn't till January, you could still add the Chinese release to this and have a what if situation, not that it would be real.
Mortimer Brewster
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Titanic is actually a good movie. It has its flaws(re the script) but it is still a very good highly rewatchable film. Avatar is just mediocre and just existed for Cameron to show off he still was the leading tech guy and force 3D down our throats.
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Neither does Star Wars to be honest.
RastaMentality
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What exactly deserves a top box office spot?
Titanic
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I, for one, can't wait for the Chinese remade of Star Wars Episode VII.
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Bloodborne
bananafactory
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Only movies that I like
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