It was cheap change for him. He donated most of it.
He just wanted to retire
Also everyone making fun of avengers, but disney just laughs hand in hand with both franchises all the way to the bank
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It was cheap change for him. He donated most of it.
He just wanted to retire
Also everyone making fun of avengers, but disney just laughs hand in hand with both franchises all the way to the bank
Subpar Spatula
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Going to need to see some figures.
A decade plus of "why are you ruining Star Wars?!?" from his fanbase probably got old.
Discotheque
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considering the garbage that's been breaking records in the past few years I'm fine with Avatar being above them on the chart tbh.
The irony is that fans will be its harshest critics, but they will also pay to see the movie in droves.
Saw all the movies for the first time this year in Machete order. They're okay, not fantastic movies. It's obvious this franchise is fueled by nostalgia hype and voracious appetites by its longtime fans. But Disney really cooked up the perfect combination of hype (Battlefront + this movie) to rake in money from this franchise this year. Good on them.
Saw all the movies for the first time this year in Machete order. They're okay, not fantastic movies. It's obvious this franchise is fueled by nostalgia hype and voracious appetites by its longtime fans. But Disney really cooked up the perfect combination of hype (Battlefront + this movie) to rake in money from this franchise this year. Good on them.
Joe Shlabotnik
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Disney is going to introduce "quantum screenings" to accommodate demand, where two showings exist in a superposition on top of each other in spacetime.
Chezzymann
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The real question is legs. If it consistently drops in large percentages, it wont beat avatar. Avatar only made 77 million on opening day, but it was #1 for seven weekends. TFA will have to have something like that, and probably something like less than a 20% drop on its second weekend to keep pace with avatar regardless of however much it makes on its first weekend.
Seventy_X_Seven
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Just bought 5 tickets for Imax 3d at 1:20am. Movie is 2 months out. No other movie could make me do this.
digitalrelic
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Did you watch the unspecialized editions of the original trilogy? Because honestly, I never thought much of the series until I watched those versions. Now I'd say that the original trilogy is one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, trilogy of all time.
The scary thing here is that it's Disney with Star Wars. We all know just how crazy Disney can get with the marketing blitzes. We're still about two months out. Disney has barely begun to hype this up yet. Come December, there will be as much Star Wars advertisements as there is Christmas decorations. It will be everywhere.
I'm honestly looking forward to witnessing the power of Disney's fully armed and operational marketing department. This will be big, really big.
I'm honestly looking forward to witnessing the power of Disney's fully armed and operational marketing department. This will be big, really big.
I hope K. Kennedy and Abrams are ready...
Scientist Supreme!
Banned
Damn. I sure hope this movie doesn't suck.
Idk if the world could take it.
Idk if the world could take it.
Dreamwriter
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I saw The Hunger Games opening night, lines (for people who already had tickets) were incredibly long, wrapping around the mall. It was a very popular book and they put on quite a huge marketing campaign for it.
Joe Shlabotnik
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Battlefront is like .00005% of the hype machine.
Shining Sunshine
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I never pre-order movie tickets...
I think it helps that this is one of the few movies that has had a full on campaign to preorder tickets (To the point of releasing the full trailer the day preorders are up) and it seems that every single cinema wants in on the preorder train.
It would have still made ALL of the money, preorders or not.
It would have still made ALL of the money, preorders or not.
lol wat
IMAX tickets definitely add up quickly.
half a moon
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Avatar released in Dec. same day actually. What am I missing?
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Star Wars has had 30 years of free publicity in virtually any medium.
If not it will be a crime.
He got 2B in Disney shares... which has no doubt appreciated. The common shares alone have more than doubled since that buy.
(but yeah, he could've gotten more I think)
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I've done it. I've booked 4 tickets for the IMAX at 10am on Sunday morning. I'm fucking stoked as fuck.
Lucas was already a billionaire. He didn't give a shit about how much money he personally gained, hence him donating the 2 billion to charity.
It's already been well known that Disney got Lucasfilm for dirt cheap. Even if he had sold it for $10 billion it would have still been low.
It's already been well known that Disney got Lucasfilm for dirt cheap. Even if he had sold it for $10 billion it would have still been low.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Looks like there's plenty of tickets left where I live. Should I buy one? Not a big fan of cramped theaters.
Maybe I'll get some for the early Monday screenings where I assume it won't be as jammed.
Maybe I'll get some for the early Monday screenings where I assume it won't be as jammed.
OriginofHysteria
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I would've done IMAX if it weren't in 3D =(.
RELEASE A 2D VERSION DAMN IT
RELEASE A 2D VERSION DAMN IT
LumpOfCole
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Secured some really good Dine-In seats the first minute they were available. 5 minutes after I bought my tickets, I went back to see the seat selection. Red circle show my seats.
F5 did me good last night after movietickets.com prematurely started the fire.
F5 did me good last night after movietickets.com prematurely started the fire.
Nah, not even with the prequels that was true.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Why's that?
bananafactory
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No. It's the year of trillion dollar movies
IIRC - I believe Lucas did end up donating all of the (actual) money he got from Disney for Lucasfilm. He's said several times that he just sold it to Disney because Disney was the only company he trusted with Star Wars, and that they complied with some other requirements (leaving Kennedy in charge, Abrams would direct Episode VII, etc etc), and that he deliberately sold it to them at chump change levels.
I think Goldman Sachs did an analysis after the sale and said that the Lucasfilm rights (Lucasarts + Indiana Jones + Star Wars) should have gone for around 15 billion.
He's a pretty big philanthropist - 200+ million to USC, 1-2 billion for a museum TBD, and most of the money from the sale of Lucasfilm.
I think Goldman Sachs did an analysis after the sale and said that the Lucasfilm rights (Lucasarts + Indiana Jones + Star Wars) should have gone for around 15 billion.
He's a pretty big philanthropist - 200+ million to USC, 1-2 billion for a museum TBD, and most of the money from the sale of Lucasfilm.
Dreams-Visions
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I was thinking the same thing.
lol battlefront isn't even a huge factor like you're making it out to be
Insane Metal
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But guys the holidays are not a benchmark for box office, remember
I was born in '78. I never really could call myself a Star Wars fan. Like a real, true, I'm bleeding jedi blood from my ass this excites me so much, fan. I watched the movies, I enjoyed them, never really rewatched them. I won't even comment on the last 3 movies. *barf*
But this.... this... coming movie... I've bought my tickets for the 19th and I can't get rid of my shit eating grin.
But this.... this... coming movie... I've bought my tickets for the 19th and I can't get rid of my shit eating grin.
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