Well... A New Hope started out small and kept building and building. This movie just exploded out of the gates. Avatar and Titanic are more apt comparisons to ANH.
This thing's first week is going to be near 400 million.
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Well... A New Hope started out small and kept building and building. This movie just exploded out of the gates. Avatar and Titanic are more apt comparisons to ANH.
This thing's first week is going to be near 400 million.Well... A New Hope kept building and building. This movie just exploded out of the gates. Avatar and Titanic are more apt comparisons to ANH.
I still am amazed that this thing has a very legitimate shot at selling more tickets than A New Hope did domestically. People to this day talk about how everyone went to see A New Hope back in '77, how much a cultural touch-stone it was to see that theatrical. Insane.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Team up aspect had never been done?
I think people give Avengers too much credit in that regard.
Ok, maybe for a mega blockbusters, but still.
I think people give Avengers too much credit in that regard.
Ok, maybe for a mega blockbusters, but still.
I don't recall it ever being done across multiple franchises
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Yeah, I get that. They've turned movie a series into something like tv shows.
I don't think it was done that well or smoothly, so I think they get too much credit. But alright.
I don't think it was done that well or smoothly, so I think they get too much credit. But alright.
Well, probably part of that is that there are more people in America(and far more theaters) than there were 40 years ago.
ProudCanuck
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The perfect storm for Box office for Star Wars
- Great Critics reviews
- Great Word of Mouth
- New Trilogy design like Old trilogy, the biggest desire for star wars fan
- Spring like weather
- No big box office competition
- Escapism after recent tragic events.
I believe this will be the first $1 bln Domestic movie
- Great Critics reviews
- Great Word of Mouth
- New Trilogy design like Old trilogy, the biggest desire for star wars fan
- Spring like weather
- No big box office competition
- Escapism after recent tragic events.
I believe this will be the first $1 bln Domestic movie
One could argue TFA is set up like a tv series as well. Lots and lots of set up in the film with a "come back next week!" aspect to find out the answers to the various questions it sets up.
Ironically, the old cheap serials that George Lucas used as inspiration for Star Wars now live on as the basis for every mega-franchise in film these days.
hodayathink
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And as has been said earlier, that weekend was a huge sports weekend that they couldn't have really predicted. Pac - Mayweather was the type of sporting event we hadn't had for years until that point, and it absolutely siphoned people off of Saturday. Word of mouth would have taken care of the rest.
Hah, that is a good point.
ViewtifulJC
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OW's 250M Star Wars + Avatar legs is awesome
This movie will keep records for years
I don't expect any movies to beat it, even Avatar 2/Justice League/Batman v Superman/Avengers 3.1 or 3.2/etc...
Superimposer
This is getting weirder all the time
Episode 8 dude
Lifejumper
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If they market the 40th anniversary right, i think it will come close to TFA. Look at skyfall.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Episode 8 will NOT beat TFA.
Superimposer
This is getting weirder all the time
Probably not but thought it was weird he didn't mention that in his list of movies coming out in the next few years that won't beat it... it will be bigger than any of the aforementioned surely
ProudCanuck
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Agreed. Even ESB was smaller than ANH right?
ViewtifulJC
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I know my gfex fatigue has
I'm sure Episode 8 won't beat TFA, the hype around TFA was insane
Episode 8 will do very well tho
Joe Shlabotnik
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If you mean there are some people who are tired of Star Wars, sure. If you're saying this has literally any measurable effect on anything Star Wars right now, ahhhhhh no.
No links detected, but hey, if you can't be famous, you can be infamous!
I can imagine if Opie comes to a studio with a new project with Hemsworth as the star, they are going to have security escort him out.
Skyfall had especially Olympic Games with this awesome intro Bond/Queen + Adele song hype
The 50th anniversary was anecdotic
ViewtifulJC
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The middle chapters in the SW trilogies tend to be the lowest so far. They come out for the opening chapter, then drop-off for the second, only to come back strong to see the ending(although still less than the opening chapter).
edit: fixed link for Hemsworth shame
Dash_Riprock
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Poor Chris. Outside of Thor he's no better than his bro Liam.
BronsonLee
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It started like two months ago
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
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It could follow the Lord of the Rings trajectory with each film out-performing the last. I think a movie like Empire is a bit slower and spends time building the new relationship/training with Luke and Yoda, and perhaps the audience excitement was a little lowered. If Episode eight retains the level of quality of TFA, and has a more audience pleasing action scene at the end (like the Two Towers had), it could pass TFA. I personally hope the film follows Empire though.
The addition of the off-year Star Wars film is interesting though. I think it could add to the fatigue, but I'm usually wrong when it comes to mass audience reactions.
so basically, no film in the past ~40 years has taken the #1 domestic spot without being within the top 5 most attended domestic films in history.
Even more interesting, is that as close as other films eek their way toward overtaking the reigning champ, none ever get there before the next champ not only beats it, but destroys the record.
Star Wars->ET = 31%
Star Wars->Titanic = 30% (I'll omit the SE release push for obvious reasons)
Titanic->Avatar = 26%
If TFA hits $1B, that would make Avatar->TFA = 31%
So that explains the crazy Avatar like holds this is having every day!
Marvel movies do great without any significant franchise fatigue even with 2+ a year, and it is obvious the public love Star Wars a hell of a lot more than they do super hero movies. The fatigue argument went out the window when this thing started steamrolling James Cameron films.
On the other hand, Lesser Hemsworth is already scouring DTV projects, and people do actually like Chris; they just don't like him in more dramatic roles, especially since they rarely take advantage of his willingness for self-depreciation and his charming personality, which are his two strongest suits.
BronsonLee
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Cheebo it's ok
Nobody is going to steal your precious Star Wars away
Nobody is going to steal your precious Star Wars away
I never understood people crying about fatigue.
I don't give a shit about football (american) or basketball by and large. Yet basically year round, you can't escape CONSTANT in-your-face marketing of NFL and NBA. Turn on my PS4? There is is. Go to the grocery store? There it is. Go to the big box store? There is is.
yet I don't "fatigue" on it. Again it goes back to what I first said. I don't give a shit about them. It doesn't even register. And you can't even say "yeah bu bu bu but Star Wars is EVERYWHERE!!!!!" because I have to believe that the marketing and licensing dollars of EITHER the NBA or NFL destroy what Lucasfilm is putting into Star Wars.
Point being, if you are fatigued on something, stop paying attention to it. If you don't stop paying attention to it.. it is your own decision and fault that you are fatigued on it.. not the marketing/merchandising.
Dash_Riprock
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ID4-2 is Baby Hemsworth's last chance. If that flops, he's down to SyFy movies, or worse, back to Australia.
BronsonLee
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Sports marketing and film marketing aren't really the same.
I'd also probably go one further and say sports fans aren't nearly as in your face about it as Star Wars fans.
Isn't he in the new ghostbusters in a comedic role as their secretary? I was happy to hear that casting rumor
ProudCanuck
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To me the biggest positive is that one of the most diverse movie in terms of blockbusters is headed towards the biggest box office. One of the few blockbusters where there is no whitewashing or manwashing
Calamari41
41 > 38
Going through that list and god damn, I knew Pluto Nash was an all-time bomb but I had no idea it was THAT big of a bomb. $4 million domestic, $7 million worldwide on a $100 million budget?
Liam is, honest to god, what happens when you try to genetically recreate Chris but a batch of Jai Courteney accidentally spills into the mix. Sure, it looks like the intended result, but deep down, you're in for a life where the likes of Miley Cyrus drops your ass like a sack of potatoes.
$200+ million weekend incoming?
You are posting in what is essentially a Star Wars thread. If you hang out in the NBA thread in the community board multiple days in a row if you don't care at all about the NBA I am pretty sure you would feel fatigued of the NBA and feel the NBA is being forced in your face.
You aint shit DK JC
Shhhh someone might pop out of a corner and steal teh star wrs.
Its all about the echo chamber that you decide to reside in online. Star Wars would be the NFL of GAF. Go elsewhere, NFL is omnipresent and some of their fans are so odious that they make some of the MRA Sues look downright reasonable.
BronsonLee
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You're right Cheebo, this one thread fatigued me. You've got me.
We're past the point of fatigue. The fanbase has already ruined any potential interest in Star Wars for me.
no way it dips 20%. Box office watchers will lose their shit if it does. No way.
well no, you did it to yourself.. Again it is one's own decision to pay attention to shit or not (like me and sports). Oh well, that sucks.
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