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Wkd Box Office 1218-2015 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m
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Freddy Got Fingered
Marvel movies and only Marvel movies.
BronsonLee
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Crank 3
Shuggananas
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Metal gear solid V
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It cost Disney over $4 billion to make this movie. They are still in the red.
Bobby Roberts
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$200 mil.
BronsonLee
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Star Wars is such a troubled franchise. They really should just go straight to video.
Bobby why must you lie to the good people
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
I'm SO HAPPY Star Wars beat that TRASH Jurassic World into the ground. 
LMAO I remember the prattoons trying to tell me that JW would hold the record and that Chris Pratt was the reason it did reasonably well
Episode VII was so good. Like only Empire Strikes back and Revenge of the Sith are higher in the SW rankings imo. Episode VII deserves that top spot more than Avatar tbh.
Jurassic World is the worst film of 2015. Garbage plot, piss poor acting, horrendous CG, lame music, poor casting decisions, bad reviews. I'm SO GLAD that people are starting to vote with their wallets for QUALITY once again. Poor JW, it's over for the dinos.
Up next to battle Star Wars for that record is the soon to be critically acclaimed Captain America: Civil War.
LMAO I remember the prattoons trying to tell me that JW would hold the record and that Chris Pratt was the reason it did reasonably well
Episode VII was so good. Like only Empire Strikes back and Revenge of the Sith are higher in the SW rankings imo. Episode VII deserves that top spot more than Avatar tbh.
Jurassic World is the worst film of 2015. Garbage plot, piss poor acting, horrendous CG, lame music, poor casting decisions, bad reviews. I'm SO GLAD that people are starting to vote with their wallets for QUALITY once again. Poor JW, it's over for the dinos.
Up next to battle Star Wars for that record is the soon to be critically acclaimed Captain America: Civil War.
It was $4 billion for LucasFilm.
For reference, odds are Disney has already made most of that back in merchandising already.
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
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Both SW and FGF deal with the universal struggles between fathers and sons.
Cameron's latest dump
Takamura-San
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I'm SO HAPPY Star Wars beat that TRASH Jurassic World into the ground.
LMAO I remember the prattoons trying to tell me that JW would hold the record and that Chris Pratt was the reason it did reasonably well
Episode VII was so good. Like only Empire Strikes back and Revenge of the Sith are higher in the SW rankings imo. Episode VII deserves that top spot more than Avatar tbh.
Jurassic World is the worst film of 2015. Garbage plot, piss poor acting, horrendous CG, lame music, poor casting decisions, bad reviews. I'm SO GLAD that people are starting to vote with their wallets for QUALITY once again. Poor JW, it's over for the dinos.
Up next to battle Star Wars for that record is the soon to be critically acclaimed Captain America: Civil War.
I really hope you tipped your fedora after you pressed the submit button.
RumblingRosco
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Some how, TFA opened in fewer screens than the next 10 movies below it.
That surprised me.
True Savior
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ryutaro's mama
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I'm SO HAPPY Star Wars beat that TRASH Jurassic World into the ground.
LMAO I remember the prattoons trying to tell me that JW would hold the record and that Chris Pratt was the reason it did reasonably well
Episode VII was so good. Like only Empire Strikes back and Revenge of the Sith are higher in the SW rankings imo. Episode VII deserves that top spot more than Avatar tbh.
Jurassic World is the worst film of 2015. Garbage plot, piss poor acting, horrendous CG, lame music, poor casting decisions, bad reviews. I'm SO GLAD that people are starting to vote with their wallets for QUALITY once again. Poor JW, it's over for the dinos.
Up next to battle Star Wars for that record is the soon to be critically acclaimed Captain America: Civil War.
Hilarious if this poster is serious...and not the good hilarious, either.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Worldwide, Jurassic World still had a bigger opening, broheim.
BronsonLee
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I'm not a Star Wars guy and the marketing/fans completely ruined the whole thing. Overhyped it to no end. It is an OK movie that is specifically designed to please everyone, and have no other qualities.
Chezzymann
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Nope. Star Wars had a 528 million opening. Jurrasic World had a 524 million.
StopMakingSense
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The WW number is extra impressive considering how strong the dollar is right now.
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
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We'll see when the actual receipts come in. I think it's looking like Star Wars might take the worldwide as well.
I can agree with this. Disney played it extremely safe, the ultimate focus tested blockbuster.
That'll very likely fall when the estimates are updated. We know Sunday was more like ~$60M. And it didn't have China.
Opened in more territories apparently.
Joe Shlabotnik
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I think Ghostbusters has a really wide box office range. With good reviews it could be a pretty big hit, but poor or middling reviews combined with the unfortunate ambivalence towards the cast could really sink it.
Chezzymann
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I disagree. Thought it was great. Probably in my top 3 star wars movies. But yeah the poster above was getting a little ridiculous.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Right now, SW is at $517M and JW at $524M.
Edit: Although as has been pointed out, not everything might have been tallied yet.
Chezzymann
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No, star wars is at 528 million.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/star-wars-box-office-star-850414
Interfectum
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SW made more than the estimates on Sunday. It'll be updated soon.
Liquidsnake
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I'm SO HAPPY Star Wars beat that TRASH Jurassic World into the ground.
LMAO I remember the prattoons trying to tell me that JW would hold the record and that Chris Pratt was the reason it did reasonably well
Jurassic World is the worst film of 2015. Garbage plot, piss poor acting, horrendous CG, lame music, poor casting decisions, bad reviews. I'm SO GLAD that people are starting to vote with their wallets for QUALITY once again. Poor JW, it's over for the dinos.
Word!
Bobby Roberts
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I do no such thing. I pay attention when Will Smith talks
The budget for The Force Awakens has been reported as being $200 mil.
Vault Dweller 111
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So maybe the December legs will be true after all. What if it stays over $35 million on Monday and Tuesday? Christmas will be huge obviously. Avatar is toast domestically....
And we still don't have China.... $2.7 billion is probably too big a hill to climb. But the race to $2billion will be fun. I'd also love $1 billion domestic but that's a stretch.
And we still don't have China.... $2.7 billion is probably too big a hill to climb. But the race to $2billion will be fun. I'd also love $1 billion domestic but that's a stretch.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ebut-to-reach-528-million-worldwide-iger-says
Bob Iger is saying as of this morning, $247M domestic and $528M worldwide.
I'm all for bashing the complete and utter mediocrity of Jurassic World, but simultaneously praising Revenge of the Sith? That's some silly nonsense.I'm SO HAPPY Star Wars beat that TRASH Jurassic World into the ground.
LMAO I remember the prattoons trying to tell me that JW would hold the record and that Chris Pratt was the reason it did reasonably well
Episode VII was so good. Like only Empire Strikes back and Revenge of the Sith are higher in the SW rankings imo. Episode VII deserves that top spot more than Avatar tbh.
Jurassic World is the worst film of 2015. Garbage plot, piss poor acting, horrendous CG, lame music, poor casting decisions, bad reviews. I'm SO GLAD that people are starting to vote with their wallets for QUALITY once again. Poor JW, it's over for the dinos.
Up next to battle Star Wars for that record is the soon to be critically acclaimed Captain America: Civil War.
bananafactory
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The post above was satirical but some people actually feel that way.
Theres a very vocal group of people that dislike it but the general consensus seems to be that it was pretty well received.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Pfffff even with the updated number, Star Wars still won't beat The Cameron duo.
Only Cameron beats Cameron.
Impressive though, but Disney is still in the red. It needed $4 billion.
Only Cameron beats Cameron.
Impressive though, but Disney is still in the red. It needed $4 billion.
God, this joke is so tiring. It had an entire thread overusing it and yet again it's here in re-runs.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Genuine. I thought it was pretty good though. Better than the other sequels at least.
Bobby Roberts
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ViewtifulJC
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DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Thanks. I guess Star Wars didn't open in China yet either.
Well excuse me princess and princess dope.
I am not well versed in box office nerdery.
We'll have to see. I'd say it's a safe bet that TFA will beat Titanic domestically. Avatar is within shot, but it's only the first weekend. We'll have a much better idea of domestic Avatar next weekend.
Worldwide.. just take what I said about Avatar and apply it to Titanic worldwide. It could very well take down Titanic.. but we'll have to wait and see how next weekend performs worldwide. We could get to the end of next weekend and know that it'll be highly unlikely, or not. Though I think $2B seems like a pretty safe bet right now.
And obviously it won't even approach Avatar WW.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I'm kidding Bobby you know that 😃
Domestic, yup no doubt about it and with the updated numbers, beating Titanic's ww gross may be in play.
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