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Wkd Box Office 1218-2015 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m
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Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
What's up with BronsonLee and Cheebo? Stop it guys.
Yeah. This was a fun thread but now it just seems like it's so far off base.
BronsonLee
Member
This thread was always going to fall into disaster.
If he ever makes that crow thread, that one's going to be a warzone
that I will actively avoid and just eat popcorn instead
freenudemacusers
Member
Surely there are iCloud backups?
tbh I'd still like to see it made if TFA doubles AoU's domestic gross, which very well could happen at this rate lol.
I mean I purposely deleted it. I decided not to make the thread.
Someone else can have fun making it if they want but it won't be me. Some amazing things were said in the thread. My favorite being someone declaring Star Wars will beat Avengers is no different than those who picked TMNT to beat Guardians of the Galaxy, that Star Wars only appeals to niche nostalgia like TMNT.
And the one dude with a Pikachu avatar relentlessly claiming kids don't like Star Wars.
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa what in the blue hell do you think you're doing? You want to boo The Star Wars Fanbase, then you lose the sing-a-long privilege! You can't use the term "Snark Jedi". So all you Jabroni's can go to hell or back to the Creed thread.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Was gonna wish you guys a Happy Holidays.
Boogalogist
Member
What in blue hell is going on in here?
Oh yeah. Merry X'mas, guys!
Oh yeah. Merry X'mas, guys!
BronsonLee
Member
This is your doing, Bobby!
LOOK AT THE WRATH YOU HAVE BROUGHT TO THIS DOORSTEP
Yeah yeah yeah, Merry Chris-wait you said X'mas oh shit *is gunned down by Santa*
LOOK AT THE WRATH YOU HAVE BROUGHT TO THIS DOORSTEP
Yeah yeah yeah, Merry Chris-wait you said X'mas oh shit *is gunned down by Santa*
Really curious how today and tomorrow perform just because I know many theaters close early and open late tomorrow. I think that'll eat into the weekend numbers but imagine Saturday and Sunday being huge just with Christmas falling on Friday.
Basically I'm rambling for no reason
Basically I'm rambling for no reason
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I think this was posted earlier in the thread, but Box Office Mojo had posted an article back on Tuesday that basically used Avatar's first week as a model for The Force Awakens. . I don't know that at the time, people were willing to use that as a base, but considering they basically got Wednesday right by using it, I thought I'd post it here for people to have at.
Monday: $40.1 M (33.76% drop) / $288.1 M (actual)
Tuesday: $37.4 M (6.85% drop) / $325.4 M (actual)
——- Wed-Sun projections based on Avatar first week dailies ——-
Wednesday: $38.2 M (2.23% increase) / $363.6 M
Thursday: $25.9 M (32.19% drop) / $389.5 M
Friday: $53.6 M (107.11% increase) / $443.2 M
Saturday: $65.7 M (22.43% increase) / $508.8 M
Sunday: $56.3 M (14.24% drop) / $565.2 M ($175.6 M weekend)
I know, when I went to bed (before whatever happened in here actually happened) we were thinking 160 mil was pretty possible. This calls for 175, so I don't know about ALL that just yet, BUT: Is a 26 mil Christmas Eve solid-ish?
Monday: $40.1 M (33.76% drop) / $288.1 M (actual)
Tuesday: $37.4 M (6.85% drop) / $325.4 M (actual)
——- Wed-Sun projections based on Avatar first week dailies ——-
Wednesday: $38.2 M (2.23% increase) / $363.6 M
Thursday: $25.9 M (32.19% drop) / $389.5 M
Friday: $53.6 M (107.11% increase) / $443.2 M
Saturday: $65.7 M (22.43% increase) / $508.8 M
Sunday: $56.3 M (14.24% drop) / $565.2 M ($175.6 M weekend)
I know, when I went to bed (before whatever happened in here actually happened) we were thinking 160 mil was pretty possible. This calls for 175, so I don't know about ALL that just yet, BUT: Is a 26 mil Christmas Eve solid-ish?
Tomorrow is going to be huge. Christmas Day is always one of the biggest box office days every year Star Wars or no Star Wars.
Merry Christmas.
Now can we all just get along and love each other in the Box Office Thread? <3
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I think 26M Christmas sounds insane.
That is the Christmas Eve prediction. Day will be higher than that. Everyone goes to the movies on Christmas.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
No, man. This shit was dumb last night. It's not any smarter this morning.
From that Tuesday BOM article:
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Isn't the record 11M?
Dash_Riprock
Member
Minstrel buffoonery is considered personality now?
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
just 175m more for star wars before the new year and my prediction will be right!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Nah, Christmas Day record is Sherlock Holmes at basically 25 mil.
25 mil for Sherlock Holmes in 2009 is the record. Avatar Christmas 2009 of 23 mil is second.
I didn't realize Holmes best Avatar on Christmas till I looked this up crazy.
I think the connotation of "eating crow" is too negative. It'll just piss people off and then everyone is angry and that's how arguments and bans and closed threads happen.
If we named it something more light hearted, like "Lets look back and laugh at some of the pre-Force Awakens posts" it might be better. Maybe.
Go for it if you want! I am waving my rights on that thread.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Oh, ok. Don't know why I thought that. Still 26M. Sounds doable, but crazy.
Dash_Riprock
Member
Wow, thats it? TFA should beat that with its eyes closed.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It's possible Force Awakens could double that, actually. Especially if the number of pre-sales for the day are as high as was being hinted at earlier.
CrichtonKicks
Member
No, 26M is the estimate for Christmas Eve. People are expecting 50+ million on Christmas day.
26 today would be great, anything higher is gravy. It'll make up for it this weekend. I remember reading that Christmas Day was the 3rd highest for advanced ticket sales behind opening Thursday and Friday, and that was a while ago. SW is still rated 100/100 at Fandango in anticipation; that rating has only been given four times and SW is the only movie to get the rating in back-to-back weekends. Gonna be huge.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
BronsonLee
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It ends in bodies either way. It's a real bad look; people can get predictions wrong. Kind of the nature of the beast. And like someone said, The Cunt Wars have already started. That won't make it any better.
Can Marvel let RDJ out to play so he can make another Sherlock because those are bangin
It's doing minimum 40 mil Christmas Day. This isn't a normal movie that plays by the normal rules.
IIRC, a new Sherlock film is on WB more than Downey being too busy for another one.
What's the record for Christmas day?
BronsonLee
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And they have Ritchie on King Arthur. The dream is dead.
A record that isn't surviving this one!
Completely in agreement just curious
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It's still kinda weird to me those movies ever actually happened. The first one felt like this weird, ungainly combo of Lethal Weapon and BATMAN. But you know... British and muddy.
I liked it. Still haven't seen the second one. But man, early in the Marvel days, people were using that movie to compare RDJ to Will Smith.
Dash_Riprock
Member
Sherlock Holmes $25 million.
BBC's Sherlock destroyed any interest in another version. Even Elementary is supposedly being cancelled soon.
I've seen the movie 4 times but someone needs to keep you folks in line.
I also think Bronson should make a LiveJournal.
BronsonLee
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Who would've thought that Sherlock Holmes had elite slow mo tech for fights
Cut my life into pieces
This blog is my last resort
I've never met an MCU fan that unabashedly loves everything in the franchise without criticism. Same goes for Star Wars fans and the entirety of the IP.
The only type of fan like that I've come across that would fit that description are Harry Potter fans. HP fans are fuckin devoted, yo. But funny enough, I don't find them annoying or overbearing at all.
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