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Wkd Box Office 01•01-03•16 - Hate flows through BO as TFA eyes all-time DOM record

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94% Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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29% Daddy's Home
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75% The Hateful Eight
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59% Sisters
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15% Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

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Box Office: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Barreling Towards ‘Avatar’s’ Record


Having vanquished “Titanic” and “Jurassic World,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has set its sights on “Avatar.”

The space opera sequel is moving up the all-time domestic box office leaderboard at a record clip and now is poised to overtake those pointy-eared blue aliens to become the top-grossing film in history.”Avatar” earned $760.5 million during its stateside run, and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has generated $740.4 million domestically after picking up $88.3 million over New Year’s weekend. It should take the crown from “Avatar” early next week.

Globally, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ranks as the sixth highest-grossing film in history, having earned $1.5 billion worldwide. It should pass “Furious 7” and “Marvel’s The Avengers” to become the fourth biggest film in the coming days. The film will get a big shot in the arm next week when it premieres in China, the world’s second biggest market for film. Depending on how enthusiastically it is received in the People’s Republic, “The Force Awakens” could shoot past “Avatar’s” record $2.8 billion global haul.

Even as “The Force Awakens” commanded the bulk of box office revenues a few films managed to profit from the holiday season. Paramount’s “Daddy’s Home,” a comedy about a nerdy stepfather (Will Ferrell) who finds himself outshone by his wife’s first husband (Mark Wahlberg), picked up $29 million in its second weekend, driving the film’s domestic total to $93.7 million.

The Weinstein Company did relatively well after moving up the wide release of “The Hateful Eight” by a week. The revisionist western from Quentin Tarantino racked up $16.2 million to finish in third place. That’s a solid start, though on the lower-end for wide-release debuts from the director. For instance, “The Hateful Eight” trails the $30.1 million launch for “Django Unchained” or the $38 million kickoff for “Inglourious Basterds.” It has made $29.6 million since debuting in a limited number of 70mm theaters over Christmas.

Universal’s “Sisters,” a Tina Fey and Amy Poehler pairing, continued to show impressive endurance, snagging fourth place with $12.6 million. The film has made $61.7 million in three weeks of release, putting it ahead of Fey and Poehler’s previous teaming on “Baby Mama,” which made $60.5 million during its run in 2008.

Fox’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” added $11.8 million to its $67.4 million in receipts to round out the top five. The studio also fielded “Joy,” an off-beat biopic about the creator of the Miracle Mop, which earned $10.4 million in its second weekend to bring its total to a robust $38.7 million.

Despite its wonky premise, “The Big Short” appears to be an awards season breakout. The comedy about the financial crisis of 2008 earned $9 million last weekend, bringing its total to just under $33 million. Paramount is releasing the film, which stars Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Christian Bale as savvy investors who bet against the housing market and won.

Sony’s “Concussion” took in an estimated $8 million for, bringing its domestic haul to $25.4 million. Will Smith stars as a crusading doctor who takes on professional football for its indifference to the health and safety of its players. At a cost of $35 million, “Concussion” ranks as a modest bet for Sony, but it has yet to get the traction that “Joy” or the “Big Short” has enjoyed and may need some Oscar love to become a hit for the studio.

“Point Break,” a remake of the 1991 cult favorite about extreme sports enthusiasts who double as bank robbers, is shaping up to be a costly dud. Financed by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros., the action adventure made $6.8 million over the weekend, bringing its domestic total to $22.4 million. That’s a calamitous result for a film that carries an $105 million price tag.

Among Oscar hopefuls, “The Revenant” picked up $450,000 from four theaters, for a hearty per-location average of $112,500. The bloody revenge epic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy and is directed by “Birdman’s” Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Cast and crew drove themselves to the breaking point filming in remote locations — a gamble that cost the film’s backers, New Regency and RatPac-Dune, $135 million to make. So far, “The Revenant” has made $1.3 million. It opens nationwide next weekend.

Paramount’s “Anomalisa” earned $140,000 from four locations for a per-screen average of $35,000. The stop-motion film about a customer service expert in the throes of an emotional crisis was directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. It has earned $215,000 since opening last Wednesday and received critical acclaim.
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Jesus, that Daddy's Home drop is really impressive, even if word about the film is that it's as crappy as it looks. I guess people really wanted their Ferrell/Wahlberg reunion any way they could get it.

The Hateful Eight seems like it opened about as well as could be expected for a film of that length and of somewhat divisive reviews, but it was a lot cheaper than Tarantino's previous films, so it'll do well in the long run.
 
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Jack The Nipper

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what's the general rule of thumb for how long a movie is in cinemas Id assume as long as its selling but are there other rules or reasoning as to why movies are pulled? How long are movies usually in cinemas such as terminator 2, matrix etc?

And how long do we expect star wars to be in most cinemas?

Even when its released again for whatever reason does that also add to the total?

As in, can they add a scene to it and call it special edition and release it before summer to add to the total?

seeing a lot of movies do 3 million or less seems like star wars could play in some places for a year
 
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GhaleonEB

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Surprised Joy did as well as it did. It's an awful movie.

Depending on how enthusiastically it is received in the People’s Republic, “The Force Awakens” could shoot past “Avatar’s” record $2.8 billion global haul.
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This really isn't on the table. TFA needs another $1.3b to pull that off. It's quite likely to pass Titanic but I don't know where the other $600m comes from to catch up to Avatar.
 
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Jack The Nipper said:
what's the general rule of thumb for how long a movie is in cinemas Id assume as long as its selling but are there other rules or reasoning as to why movies are pulled? How long are movies usually in cinemas such as terminator 2, matrix etc?

And how long do we expect star wars to be in most cinemas?

Even when its released again for whatever reason does that also add to the total?

As in, can they add a scene to it and call it special edition and release it before summer to add to the total?
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It really depends on the film. There's a minimum amount of time that theaters agree to exhibit a film, though depending on external factors, like how well a film does initially or possible real life crisis that could paint the film in a negative light unintentionally, the studio can relax those requirements for the theaters and they'd be able to pull it. I know Disney relaxed whatever minimum they had in place for The Lone Ranger when it became obvious it was heading for disaster after the first weekend, so theaters got the chance to stop running it pretty quickly.
 
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Jack The Nipper

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Ridley327 said:
It really depends on the film. There's a minimum amount of time that theaters agree to exhibit a film, though depending on external factors, like how well a film does initially or possible real life crisis that could paint the film in a negative light unintentionally, the studio can relax those requirements for the theaters and they'd be able to pull it. I know Disney relaxed whatever minimum they had in place for The Lone Ranger when it became obvious it was heading for disaster after the first weekend, so theaters got the chance to stop running it pretty quickly.
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I would assume min. are set in place to make sure they can get new movies in that can potentially do more sales but with star wars even if its 30 percent packed that would be more than half new movies can pull in during a second weekend perhaps?

Ill assume it will be in cinemas for quite a while.
 
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Road

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Other thread got locked, so

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what market is avatar so strong in that is making it really push past star wars right now?

Is it china? No idea
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Europe was crazy for Avatar. It did over $1 billion there. UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia alone with $800 million.
 
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duckroll

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Damn it's getting really close to Avatar now. Lol. Will it claim the crown by Monday? Or will it need another couple of days?
 
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Jack The Nipper said:
I would assume min. are set in place to make sure they can get new movies in that can potentially do more sales but with star wars even if its 30 percent packed that would be more than half new movies can pull in during a second weekend perhaps?

Ill assume it will be in cinemas for quite a while.
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It will be. I think most are predicting it's going to be well into super-wide release by the time January ends. This is a pretty lean January in terms of big new releases (Ride Along 2 is about the only thing that stands to finally take down the film, as it were), so it's been scheduled rather well.
 
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Road said:
Other thread got locked, so

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Europe was crazy for Avatar. It did over $1 billion there. UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia alone with $800 million.
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Damn TFA only needs ~ 1,3 billion to top Avatar with the worldwide record and it's only been 3 weeks so far.
 
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GhaleonEB

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Avatar had freakishly long legs. It even jumped several weeks rather than dropping. It'll be hard for SW to keep it going that long but hopefully it does because Avatar was shit.
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It took Avatar 101 days to do what The Force Awakens did in 17. Both are completely freakish for different reasons. :lol
 
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With 88 million, The Force Awakens' third weekend still beat the previous December OW record, and is 40 million over the January Opening Weekend, Ride Along.

(American Sniper went wide in the 2nd weekend of last January, and made 89 mil that weekend, but being it had been in limited release two weeks prior, I'm not sure as to whether to count it as an "Opening Weekend," especially considering due to that limited release, the film's box-office is tallied for 2014, not 2015)
 
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