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Wkd Box Office 1218-2015 - Force Awakens does good... gOOOood, opens w/ $248m
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Should I do the honors?
PhoncipleBone
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Let's see how insane the weekdays next week are before going too crazy.
I called my theater because I made the quick decision to go see it at 7:30pm on Christmas. They said while it probably won't be sold out they said to get my tickets early as that will be a busy time for them.
I've been casually checking all week and the reserved seating showings have all been sold out every time I checked, it's kinda fucking crazy.
I wanna see the movie again, but this time in a decent seat in a theater that's not packed. I guess It's going to be a while before that's even possible.
It's well within the rounds of possibility right now, so crow should not be on the offering regardless. It'll be clear how close it will come after this weekend.
Tomorrow is going to be huge.
Sure, why not? Just bump my initial 810M prediction up to 1B.
Christopher
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I'm glad people are showing their shit chase by mentioning their like for John Carter awful movie terrible
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hodayathink
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But just below the largest non-opening Thursday (Transformers 2 at 29).
Edit: Which means that if today were any day other than Christmas eve, it would have broken the record. And after tomorrow, it's going to have the largest overall Friday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday record, and the largest non-opening Wednesday and Friday record. And if you counted the preview showings as Thursday instead of Friday, it would have been the largest Thursday of all time.
Edit: Which means that if today were any day other than Christmas eve, it would have broken the record. And after tomorrow, it's going to have the largest overall Friday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday record, and the largest non-opening Wednesday and Friday record. And if you counted the preview showings as Thursday instead of Friday, it would have been the largest Thursday of all time.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Potentially a bigger Xmas Eve than any single day Avatar ever achieved, absolute insanity. It also locks up $50M for tomorrow, and the question now is if it can reach $60M.
I wouldnt worry about tomorrow much, the interesting bit will be Saturday.
BronsonLee
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The Force Awakens Loses To Transformers: Is Star Wars On The Decline?! /Deadline
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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TFA is just being festive and gifting next Thursday with a record to break.
If $155-160M weekend and < 25% Monday's drop = $1B is 80% sure
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Didn't help this guy.Just make the posters blue and orange guys. All there is to it.
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I just want TFA to beat Avatar. That movie hasn't aged well.
That has to be one of the worst posters I have ever seen, especially for a big budget movie. It highlights all the shitty designs from that movie.
Mr. Pointy
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More people will see Star Wars in its second weekend than what saw John Carter through its entire run.
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I project the floor as $740... As a worst case scenario
If TFA gets $150 weekend, $100 week then $100 weekend... I expect the floor to be about $910 mil... That's essentially the current take plus whatever Jurassic world did 20 days onwards
But I'd still use TDKR as an alternate and suggest floor of $840
When you get into big grosses, sometimes you need to look at grosses instead of percentages because there's truly only so much money around... And star wars may be heavily front loaded and can come crashing down like a rock
This movie is going to have a 10 day run between $550-$580M, more than all but 4 movies made in their entire run.
B-b-but Star Wars is DEAD, there was a gaf thread about it did you not read it!?
Disney better reinstate all EU stuff back into canon or they can kiss their business goodbye
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I read somewhere that if Avatar came out today, it'd make about 2.3b ww. That's quite a dip. If TFA manages to get there somehow, I'd say that's a big victory.
I have no doubt that it won't beat Avatar's ww. Even if it made over a billion at the domestic BO.
I have no doubt that it won't beat Avatar's ww. Even if it made over a billion at the domestic BO.
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ViewtifulJC
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I set my expectations to current Domestic king + first non-JC movie in the $2 billion club + fuck JW and its records
They can call it a... Special Edition.
FTFY
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i was surprised to see that transformers: revenge of the fallen had the record before star wars for the highest non-opening wednesday, but then i noticed it actually opened on monday and its first wednesday was its second full day of release, and the punk ass bitch still went down by a cool ten mil.
First Avatar and now this
Like is there a specific reason we shoot against classics in this thread?
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Wait, JW is a classic?
I imagine Abrams about to join that 2 billion club with Cameron and might beat Titanic but that's the limit.
I'm still fucking salty about that.
I'm still fucking salty about that.
Jurassic World? A classic? Come on, Nibel, a bit too early for that.
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