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Wkd Box Office 1218-2015 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m
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It will certainly rake in serious coin there, but from what I've been told by Chinese friends, I wouldn't expect it to do especially great.
Yeah, the only significant weak link the marketing imo. Obviously it didn't matter at all though!
Yeah. No way they let Tarantino have it through the holiday with that kind of number.
I just wanna see it already
Funny how talk of all non-Star Wars films stopped in this thread.
Barring an out of the blue American Sniper like event in January, here is how the 2015 Domestic Top 10 will end up looking:
1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - At least $700M. Probably $800M-$1B depending on legs.
2) Jurassic World - $652M
3) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $459M
4) Inside Out - $356M
5) Furious 7 - $353M
6) Minions - $336-338M
7) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt 2 - $285-295M
8) The Martian - $225M (possibly more if it gets an awards season re-expansion)
9) Spectre (?) - $200-205M
10) Cinderella (?) - $201M
Spectre and Cinderella could conceivably switch places. This year has the fewest amount of $200M+ films in several years, but the Top 5 is a record high.
The Top 10 combined will likely account for nearly $3.4B this calendar year (Star Wars will continue to make some money next year), which will equal ~30% of the total dollars spent this year at the cinema. Last year's top 10 took less than 23% of the total box office (About $2.36B).
Barring an out of the blue American Sniper like event in January, here is how the 2015 Domestic Top 10 will end up looking:
1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - At least $700M. Probably $800M-$1B depending on legs.
2) Jurassic World - $652M
3) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $459M
4) Inside Out - $356M
5) Furious 7 - $353M
6) Minions - $336-338M
7) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt 2 - $285-295M
8) The Martian - $225M (possibly more if it gets an awards season re-expansion)
9) Spectre (?) - $200-205M
10) Cinderella (?) - $201M
Spectre and Cinderella could conceivably switch places. This year has the fewest amount of $200M+ films in several years, but the Top 5 is a record high.
The Top 10 combined will likely account for nearly $3.4B this calendar year (Star Wars will continue to make some money next year), which will equal ~30% of the total dollars spent this year at the cinema. Last year's top 10 took less than 23% of the total box office (About $2.36B).
Bigger win than Avengers and TDKR. Karma ...
I'm already almost more interested in how the next two Star Wars films perform. There's always been a drop after the first episode, plus 2016's offering is a spinoff, plus the fever may tone down somewhat now that the franchise is back. On the other hand, contemporary blockbuster sequel achievements have been extraordinary. On the other, other hand -- the third hand, if you will -- I look at stuff like Age of Ultron (obviously successful, and yet beneath forecasts) and I wonder.
Karma for what?? What's with you and these garbage immature posts
Like clockwork, its OK guy Civil War will win next year.
What are you talking about, yo?
Nah uh. You don't get to write a passive aggressive butthurt fanboy post and then try to turn it around when you get called on it.
Bobby Roberts
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BronsonLee
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I can talk about how much better Creed is if that'd help
Or Avatar
Or Avatar
Calm down boys.
Have a waffle.
That's no waffle.
Mister Wilhelm
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Oh my...I had no idea it finished that far below the first one.
Hopefully haha
You're really close! It is good, you will enjoy it!
Waffle is tasty!
You don't know about the TFA vs Ultron BO thread?
The Mahvel crowd is here!
Don't argue with the Star Wars marketing machine.
Grow up
wachie is convinced there's some kind of resentment from the MCU crowd for being wrong about Ultron. It's like bronsonlee's crow thread but not a joke. He's actually being serious in thinking being wrong about box office predictions is embarrassing.
Considering how they designed their logo, I think actually removing The Force Awakens would've been closer to their intention.
I hate that they didn't follow the rebranding done for 1-6. It bothers me to no end. The font chosen for "The Force Awakens" is especially bad.
BronsonLee
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I made no crow thread.
And I only speak truth.
Like how Force Awakens would've been better without any of the old characters
And I only speak truth.
Like how Force Awakens would've been better without any of the old characters
Calm down boys.
Have a waffle.
My parents sent us the Darth Vader toaster. I have no idea what to do with it, they're not cheap ($50) but while hilarious it's super huge, and we don't really know what to do with it. The waffle maker is at least a bit more practical.
oh whoops, confused you with Dalek
BronsonLee
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Exterminate.
Discotheque
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dalek's crow thread was terrible, never forget.
so glad one hasn't been made for star wars, even if it would actually be accurate on the numbers.
so glad one hasn't been made for star wars, even if it would actually be accurate on the numbers.
BronsonLee
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Why you gotta throw the black guy, Gob
We have enough Star Wars threads.
Crow threads are usually stupid.
Crow should be reserved for spectacularly bad predictions, like saying Star Wars isn't relevant any longer. It's application has gotten way too broad if we're going to apply it to something no one called ahead of time.
I saw TFA just a bit ago again, for science. The crowd was almost as large as my Saturday visit at the same theater. Which is pretty bonkers given the small town I live in.
The only foreseeable crow thread from movie-gaf I think would be somewhat deserving is if BvS reviews extremely well.
George Oscar Bluth II
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Bobby Roberts
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Is that Charlie Murphy?
you're coming awfully close to working yourself into a shoot
BronsonLee
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Hot damn it is
Fraud detected
Avatar ain't great, but Force squanders any and all potential it had after the first 30
Knock yourself out - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=963553
Bobby Roberts
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thunderous slaps since 1981.
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Fun thread to look back on for how short-sighted we can be. Beyond Star Wars or Avengers, Jurassic World and Furious 7 blew past any expectations I had.
Crazy that Star Wars will pass it's domestic total by the end of the week.
I just bought tickets for Saturday with my mom. My fiance said he didn't think he could sit through the movie again lol.
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I don't think we have to worry about that.
BronsonLee
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I have actively stopped both my sister and mother from going to see TFA.
I'm helping!
They hate going to the movies and prefer almost anything else
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