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The Phantom Menace alone has more imagination and fun than all of those wretched Transformers films combined.
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Wkd Box Office 1218-2015 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m
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The Phantom Menace alone has more imagination and fun than all of those wretched Transformers films combined.
I shit on Deadline, all the time but they were not the only one calling for an outrageous OW number on Ultron.
Charles Foster Kane
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3 weekends over the previous december record holder.
BronsonLee
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Arthr2ShdsJcksn
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I can't get into a debate between Star Wars Prequels v Transformers. They're all garbage. I just hate Star Wars Prequels more because I have a positive association with the other films.
Transformers 1 is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the prequels. That movie is actually enjoyable and funny and has characters who talk like real people.
Transformers 2 and 3, on the other hand... prequel tier, no doubt. Right down to the racist caricatures.
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TF 1 is actually a watchable movie.
The other ones don't even qualify as movies.
The other ones don't even qualify as movies.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, even if it doesn't hit the (still fucking crazy as all hell to even consider yet) "Three Weekends Over 100 Million" threshhold, it will still likely take until The Force Awakens fourth weekend before it makes less money than Unexpected Journey's first.
And while we're in this particular cul-de-sac: The first Transformers film isn't that bad. Pretty decent (which immediately puts it in the top 3 of Bay's filmography, really). The sequel is one of the worst films of the last 15 years, period, and the sequel to that was just bad, but not remarkably so - but the first Transformers is okay.
SonicMegaDrive
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I can't even tell the difference between them.
Summer 2017
A few weeks before Episode VIII.
TFA could stop making money for the next three days and still sweep JW off the cumulative daily record list through the 8th day of release.
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SonicMegaDrive
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Hopefully you're speaking for those that changed their mind about the film, and not those of us who always knew it was a steaming pile of puke.
Reading the box office thread for Age of Ultron's opening now...
Bananafactory was right... tell your sister, bananafactory was right.
Bananafactory was right... tell your sister, bananafactory was right.
That quote from Caboose was one of my favorites from that thread. "Delusional."
That's the thing about statistics and trends. It's not ever perfect. The Box Office experts got it wrong in that thread.There can always be an exception that doesn't follow the rules.
How many people thought Age of Ultron was actually going to pass the first film domestically? First weekend sure but I think most people expected a decrease. Just a smaller one. Worldwide was expected to be the growth area. However I think the strong US dollars effect on the overall gross was underestimated. Age of Ultron would have broke 1.5b with 2012 exchange rates, even with the much lower than expected domestic take.
Edit: Also see Spectre vs Skyfall.
Not yet. That poster had the wrong post count. Record is 2395 posts. We will probably hit that tonight though.
Edit: Also see Spectre vs Skyfall.
Its broken
Not yet. That poster had the wrong post count. Record is 2395 posts. We will probably hit that tonight though.
Bobby Roberts
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We're in a box-office thread where the best box-office prognosticator is offering the best estimate of when the box-office thread will break box-office thread records for most discussion about box-office.
Star Wars has brought us to this madness.
Agreed. Highly likely.
BronsonLee
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Imagine a Brad Bird Star Wars
It'd mean no Tomorrowland!
It'd mean no Tomorrowland!
Did you make it this long without getting spoiled?
these old threads are too funny
when I said opening weekend was guaranteed since star wars fucking crashed all the ticket selling websites
not directed at me but:
Bobby Roberts
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I think I might have actually eaten just a teensy bit more shit on Jurassic World, maybe?
Teeth were brown, definitely.
Dash_Riprock
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Agree with all of this, especially the last one. Been a transformers fan ever since Beast and loved the first movie. It wasn't perfect, but I (and the rest of the fanbase) were confident that the problems would be fixed for the sequel.
Nope.
Considering the fact that even industry smart money was pegging the domestic TOTAL at $225-300M a couple of weeks before release, I think almost everyone did.
I never feel bad about majorly lowballing a breakout film. For every one of those you get way wrong, there are 5-10 others you were in the right ballpark on.
It will take Avatar's domestic record.
I've only seen TF2 but come on, it's not even prequel tier. Phantom Menace at least had some original ideas going for it, as bad as they were. Revenge of the Sith botched Anakin's character arc, but at least it tried. Revenge of the Fallen is an affront to intelligence. The romance in AotC was more believable and logical than anything that happened in TF2.
Ignatz Mouse
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I didn't make it to the end of the first one, let alone see the second one. It wasn't a decent flick to me.
Rare thing that I don't finish a movie.
Nah, I mean Jurassic World was shocking but no one thought it was impossible, it was just not the movie people expected to do it.
TFA is doing things no one thought possible, like shattering the OW record by $40 million in December, while still not acting like a typical frontloaded film. It's likely to not just break Avatar's domestic record, but to do it without much drama. That's crazy.
igordennis
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That was kind of hilarious.
I don't know. Furious 7s prequel was almost 800m worldwide. A lot of people were expecting this one to hit 1b due to Walkers death. I don't think it was a given that Jurassic World would outgross it worldwide back in March. Furious 7s Chinese run was one of the crazier things this year but overall I still think Jurassic World had the crazier run.
I kinda wish we would have had a big blizzard now just so we could have seen how that would affect the numbers. We know the thirst was real but how much would inclimate weather bring down the OW?
It still would have beat December's record, no problem, but the all time? Lots of people are gloating now that the December date had no detrimental effects on the opening but it still could have.
When did the new rules for China go into effect? Did they limit F7's run there at all?
It still would have beat December's record, no problem, but the all time? Lots of people are gloating now that the December date had no detrimental effects on the opening but it still could have.
When did the new rules for China go into effect? Did they limit F7's run there at all?
I don't know .. going from 800M to 1.5B is almost double where as for JW, I called a billion so 1.5B isn't twice
I'm not discounting JW's break out success, it was definitely a shocker, one for the books.
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Go to boxofficemojo
Go to all time on the left
Click adjusted for inflation.... in top right there's a drop down box beside "Adjuster"... choose est tickets
You can do this for most records too
Could be a lot of crow eaten soon.
Only time will tell..
That and Mojo are just dividing the domestic gross by the annual ticket price average. Not really the actual attendance for each film.
I mean I can understand this if their grosses were going to be close. But when it is all said and done SW will have run circles around JW. Topping 800 mil (possibly close to 900 mil) and beating Avatar for the #1 spot domestically towers above the surprise that was the JW gross.
I don't know .. going from 800M to 1.5B is almost double where as for JW, I called a billion so 1.5B isn't twice
I'm not discounting JW's break out success, it was definitely a shocker, one for the books.
Furious 7 looked like a good bet to hit 1B.
FF - 363M
F5 - 626M
F6 - 788M
Growth both domestic and OS. Add in the fact that Paul Walker's passing was guaranteed to draw in a larger audience and 1B seems reasonable. 1.5B is very impressive.
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