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[Branduil]

We have 23, soon 24 films that have made more than $1 billion dollars worldwide. Definitely seems like $1.5 billion is the new gold standard for mega-blockbusters.

Also, I'm impressed that RotK is still sitting at #12 worldwide after all these years. It really made a crazy amount of money at the time, especially for the third movie in a trilogy.

 

[Kagari]

We have 23, soon 24 films that have made more than $1 billion dollars worldwide. Definitely seems like $1.5 billion is the new gold standard for mega-blockbusters.

Also, I'm impressed that RotK is still sitting at #12 worldwide after all these years. It really made a crazy amount of money at the time, especially for the third movie in a trilogy.

The Lord of the Rings hype was real.

 

[JB1981]

We have 23, soon 24 films that have made more than $1 billion dollars worldwide. Definitely seems like $1.5 billion is the new gold standard for mega-blockbusters.

Also, I'm impressed that RotK is still sitting at #12 worldwide after all these years. It really made a crazy amount of money at the time, especially for the third movie in a trilogy.

And being long as shit, no 3D or IMAX tax

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

We have 23, soon 24 films that have made more than $1 billion dollars worldwide. Definitely seems like $1.5 billion is the new gold standard for mega-blockbusters.

Also, I'm impressed that RotK is still sitting at #12 worldwide after all these years. It really made a crazy amount of money at the time, especially for the third movie in a trilogy.

We will have what, 4 films that have passed 1.5bil this year? $2b is the new gold standard. Star Wars should make it there too.

 

[3N16MA]

We have 23, soon 24 films that have made more than $1 billion dollars worldwide. Definitely seems like $1.5 billion is the new gold standard for mega-blockbusters.

Also, I'm impressed that RotK is still sitting at #12 worldwide after all these years. It really made a crazy amount of money at the time, especially for the third movie in a trilogy.

AoU missed the gold standard seal of approval.

 

[Kagari]

AoU missed the gold standard seal of approval.

That movie was also not good.

 

[Branduil]

The Lord of the Rings hype was real.

What was crazy was that each film one-upped the last at the box office, which was and mostly still is unheard of for sequels. FotR in particularly opened fairly low but had crazy legs. DVD was still pretty new at the time and I think that helped fuel audience growth. Of course, all those Oscars probably helped RotK's final tally too...

 

[vinnygambini]

AoU missed the gold standard seal of approval.

AoU was terrible, Transformers was better 😃

 

[Kagari]

AoU was terrible, Transformers was better 😃

Okay I wouldn't go THAT far.

 

[vinnygambini]

Okay I wouldn't go THAT far.

I'm kidding Kagari ahaha

Edit: though Transformers 1 was good fun

 

[Kagari]

I'm kidding Kagari ahaha

Edit: though Transformers 1 was good fun

4 was fun too I guess. But it wasn't a good movie at all lol.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

AoU was terrible, Transformers was better 😃

Transformers is barely a movie, so it's a lot better than the prequel trilogy, but could never reach the averageness of AoU.

 

[3N16MA]

AoU and Furious 7 were both disappointing. JW was subpar but I had lower expectations.

 

[Branduil]

I didn't really get why people expected AoU to match the original. It seemed like a big part of Avengers' success was the novelty of having all those superheroes in one movie, which would obviously be diminished by the sequel. The wildly off tracking for the opening weekend was a bit surprising, though.

 

[Abounder]

What was crazy was that each film one-upped the last at the box office, which was and mostly still is unheard of for sequels. FotR in particularly opened fairly low but had crazy legs. DVD was still pretty new at the time and I think that helped fuel audience growth. Of course, all those Oscars probably helped RotK's final tally too...

Mmm the hype from watching The Two Towers trailer, also loved that LOTR released back-to-back for a 3peat (and little things like practical orcs). Nowadays just one blockbuster movie costs as much as the entire LOTR trilogy (~$300m),and you have to wait 2+ years for a poorly written sequel-verse.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

Transformers is barely a movie, so it's a lot better than the prequel trilogy, but could never reach the averageness of AoU.

The prequels were bad, but they're not that bad.

 

[vinnygambini]

4 was fun too I guess. But it wasn't a good movie at all lol.

Transformers was great, then shit hit the fan with the rest of the entries - I legit enjoyed the hell of that movie when it released, dat nostalgia flowed in my veins.

 

[BronsonLee]

I didn't really get why people expected AoU to match the original. It seemed like a big part of Avengers' success was the novelty of having all those superheroes in one movie, which would obviously be diminished by the sequel. The wildly off tracking for the opening weekend was a bit surprising, though.

Deadline decided to make up for totally fucking up the tracking of the first one by doing the same thing in the opposite direction for AoU

 

[mckmas8808]

Tuesday Actual for The Force Awakens: $37,361,729. Domestic total is a bit over $325M in 5 days

EDIT: To put things in perspective, 16 years ago The Phantom Menace became the first film to break the $100M mark in 5 days.

At this rate, what movie will make $1 Billion in 5 days, 15 years from now?

 

[Branduil]

The prequels are terrible, but they do at least feel like the authentically terrible vision of a unique director. The Transformers films are just assembly-line junk food with zero redeeming value.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I didn't really get why people expected AoU to match the original. It seemed like a big part of Avengers' success was the novelty of having all those superheroes in one movie, which would obviously be diminished by the sequel. The wildly off tracking for the opening weekend was a bit surprising, though.

I had been saying that exact thing pre-release. Novelty of it was gone and it wouldn't hit the first film's gross.

What's sad is that there's all this backlash when it was much more accomplished than the first film.

 

[3N16MA]

Transformers was great, then shit hit the fan with the rest of the entries - I legit enjoyed the hell of that movie when it released, dat nostalgia flowed in my veins.

I will back you on this. The first film is fun and easily the best in the series.

 

[BronsonLee]

At this rate, what movie will make $1 Billion in 5 days, 15 years from now?

A big blockbuster that releases simultaneously in all territories

 

[LFMartins86]

At this rate, what movie will make $1 Billion in 5 days, 15 years from now?

Fast And Furious 13 : Star Races

 

[vinnygambini]

I will back you on this. The first film is fun and easily the best in the series.

I can always count on my Canadian brethren

 

[Branduil]

Marvel Infinites Presents: Star Wars vs Furious vs Jurassic Galaxy vs The Guardians: Mad Max and the Milky Way Massacre(Featuring the Transformers).

 

[LevelNth]

At this rate, what movie will make $1 Billion in 5 days, 15 years from now?

Star Wars Episode X: Thrawn with the Wind

 

[shira]

Marvel Infinites Presents: Star Wars vs Furious vs Jurassic Galaxy vs The Guardians: Mad Max and the Milky Way Massacre(Featuring the Transformers).

no tmnt

 

[Kagari]

I didn't really get why people expected AoU to match the original. It seemed like a big part of Avengers' success was the novelty of having all those superheroes in one movie, which would obviously be diminished by the sequel. The wildly off tracking for the opening weekend was a bit surprising, though.

Because the first one was so huge and so the next one just had to be as well?

 

[TheDinoman]

Transformers was great, then shit hit the fan with the rest of the entries - I legit enjoyed the hell of that movie when it released, dat nostalgia flowed in my veins.

I'll agree with this, I saw it when I was 10 and it was rad as hell, got me into Transformers. Years later I recognize the issues with it but I still have fondness for it, despite it being a silly film. The sequels...yeah.

 

[Branduil]

Because the first one was so huge and so the next one just had to be as well?

Sequels almost never match their predecessors, though. It made sense to predict a bigger opening, but not so much a bigger overall gross.

 

[Kagari]

Sequels almost never match their predecessors, though. It made sense to predict a bigger opening, but not so much a bigger overall gross.

I suppose people thought the trend would be different since MCU is this big thing and people are invested in it. lol

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I suppose people thought the trend would be different since MCU is this big thing and people are invested in it. lol

They basically thought "Hulk & Iron Man are gonna fight! C'mon! I GOT NO STRINGS TO HOLD THIS HYPE DOWN!"

 

[Freewheelin']

Yeah, AOU was much better than the first one. But whatever.

Sitting in the cinema for my second viewing now.

I get free tickets; presumably they don't count that towards the money as tickets sold? SORRY JJ

THIS DICK IS FREE

 

[Bobby Roberts]

two out of my three viewings of this will have been free, as well.

 

[3N16MA]

Sequels almost never match their predecessors, though. It made sense to predict a bigger opening, but not so much a bigger overall gross.

This is what I predicted. Bigger OW but weaker legs and a smaller domestic gross.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

The prequels were bad, but they're not that bad.

Yes they are. Every frame of those three turds defines the absolute zero when it comes to filmmaking. I hate Transformers and consider it to be one of the worst films I've ever seen, but its still better than absolute zero.

Neil Breen's 2005 espionage thriller 'Double Down' is a masterpiece next to Lucas' attempt to cash in on more toys. I have watched thousands of films in my 37 years on this planet, and have never experienced something as soul-less as those 'movies'. They are both the antithesis of art, and the antitheses of entertainment.


EDIT: Sorry. I'm crazy about my hate of the prequels. I'll try to stay on topic.

On topic: Will Point Break be the biggest flop remake? I don't know anyone who is talking about it, and, in the shadow of Star Wars, it seems likely that the only people who are going to see it are those who accidentally wander into the wrong theater.

 

[LevelNth]

Sequels almost never match their predecessors, though. It made sense to predict a bigger opening, but not so much a bigger overall gross.

Didn't LOTR work in reverse of this, and was very unique in that sense? It was such a strong, cohesive experience I wonder if Star Wars would be similar to that, or more of the norm?

Maybe TFA will perform so well it will be almost impossible for VIII to match it.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Maybe TFA will perform so well it will be almost impossible for VIII to match it.

This is probably going to be a pretty big aspect of it.

Empire Strikes Back certainly didn't get anywhere close to Star Wars either in original, or re-release, or Special Edition release reciepts.

 

[3N16MA]

Shame on you guys that are taking money out of Disney's pocket. They are still reeling from Mars Needs Moms, John Carter, and Tomorrowland.

 

[mckmas8808]

I didn't really get why people expected AoU to match the original. It seemed like a big part of Avengers' success was the novelty of having all those superheroes in one movie, which would obviously be diminished by the sequel. The wildly off tracking for the opening weekend was a bit surprising, though.

Either way AoU was a good movie. People are insane to say it's a bad movie.

 

[mm04]

I didn't really get why people expected AoU to match the original. It seemed like a big part of Avengers' success was the novelty of having all those superheroes in one movie, which would obviously be diminished by the sequel. The wildly off tracking for the opening weekend was a bit surprising, though.

Yep, there was crazy delusion. Same ol' crackers. I'm not sure if it was the same thread, but I seem to remember a thread about if there was one movie you could watch this year that pitted TFA vs AoU, which would it be and it was very MCU-sided. Turns out the Hulkbuster hype wasn't real.

 

[BronsonLee]

I don't pay for any Disney movies.

I just walk in with a Walt Disney mask and nobody gives me any lip

 

[Anth0ny]

Age of Ultron wasn't terrible, it was just painfully average, especially following up the awesome Avengers 1, and even the great Winter Soldier and GOTG. There were very high expectations going into that film, and it didn't deliver.


Civil War looks to be the real Avengers 2. Iron Man fighting Cap and fucking Spider-Man is an infinitely bigger hook than anything in Ultron.

 

[CreepingFear]

two out of my three viewings of this will have been free, as well.

Would you have seen it the three times if you had to pay?

 

[Anth0ny]

I didn't really get why people expected AoU to match the original. It seemed like a big part of Avengers' success was the novelty of having all those superheroes in one movie, which would obviously be diminished by the sequel. The wildly off tracking for the opening weekend was a bit surprising, though.

nobody expected mayweather/pacquiao to be as massive as it was.

 

[3N16MA]

Episode VIII is also being released in a much more crowded market. I wouldn't be surprised to see it not touch these records.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Would you have seen it the three times if you had to pay?

Nah. Woulda stopped at two, and that was due to two separate groups of friends not being able to go on the same night.

There's too much other shit I still need to watch at the theater.

 

[CreepingFear]

Nah. Woulda stopped at two, and that was due to two separate groups of friends not being able to go on the same night.

There's too much other shit I still need to watch at the theater.

I hear that. I'd like to see TFA 2 more times(seen it three times) while seeing The Hateful Eight and The Revenant in between.

 

[guek]

Didn't LOTR work in reverse of this, and was very unique in that sense? It was such a strong, cohesive experience I wonder if Star Wars would be similar to that, or more of the norm?

Maybe TFA will perform so well it will be almost impossible for VIII to match it.

LotR had the benefit of being shot all at once with years of preproduction.

As for AoU, there are way too many little things that held back the movie and no big centerpiece moments that surprised the audience. It was on this precarious tipping point of being good but never took that vital next step in order to become a memorable experience. I still enjoy the hell out of it but more because of how invested I'd become in the universe.