BronsonLee
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Guys I think Star Wars is going to make money
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Wkd Box Office 1211-1315 - Calm before the Stormtroopers
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It won't though. Nobody cares.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
after hollywood accountants are through it will have lost several hundred millions.
BronsonLee
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You don't make that kind of money without an astounding amount of repeat viewers
John Dunbar
correct about everything
people went back to see was it really as terrible as it seemed.
BronsonLee
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TMNT wins.
M.W.
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$55M from just the pre shows? Well, well.
https://twitter.com/giteshpandya/status/677869551480999936
https://twitter.com/giteshpandya/status/677869551480999936
BronsonLee
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That isn't particularly surprising. We knew they had a fucking shitload of opening night presales.
M.W.
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Well those count for Friday's totals right? Friday will be the first day a movie made over 100M in a single day, right?
Wait, avatar was a good movie and the 3D was done right and to amazing effect. Not Cameron's fault few have come close to doing 3D the way he did in avatar.
Han and leia?
This post feels like a trap.
There were people who were in no way experts making that kind of prediction.
Wasn't a thing until ESB, which I believe is the lowest grosser of the OT.
They do, though IMO that's increasingly ridiculous (it made some sense when it was just midnight shows, but with shows starting as early as 7 it really doesn't).
BronsonLee
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Put an asterisk next to all of Star Wars' records
61* their ass
61* their ass
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
There's a bigger common denominator: they weren't sequels. Just like most record holders through movie history.
Yeah that's a lot of money
ProudCanuck
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Gitesh Pandya ‏@giteshpandya 3m3 minutes ago
#StarWarsTheForceAwakens crushes industry record for opening pre-shows w/ official $57M beating final Potter by 31%.
#StarWarsTheForceAwakens crushes industry record for opening pre-shows w/ official $57M beating final Potter by 31%.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Huge opening day coming.
IIRC Potter only had midnight shows, FWIW. (Though these lists don't make that distinction.)
$100+ million opening day seems pretty safe at this point.
having went with two females, I can tell you you're not entirely on point. I won't go into any spoilers, I'll just say most of the themes and plot devices are fairly gender neutral, and a few that even skew more female..
while it's certainly no titanic (I don't think the "romance" of Avatar played a whole lot), it's also not the exclusive boys club that the prequels were. much closer to the concepts of the OT (which were also pretty universal)
Bobby Roberts
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The answer lies within, Jett.
Preview showing numbers seems hard to compare given how they have shifted from midnight to 7PM in recent years. My theater had 5 screens showing the movie from 7 PM to showings that started as late as 2:30 AM.
Of course that's obviously still a lot of money for a partial days take and I don't know what kind of showings Harry Potter had anyway.
Of course that's obviously still a lot of money for a partial days take and I don't know what kind of showings Harry Potter had anyway.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Star Wars is irrelevant, amirite? 
I remember many of thos when it was announced that disney bought it.
I remember many of thos when it was announced that disney bought it.
Good. Trash deserves to be forgotten.
Star Wars is irrelevant, amirite?
I remember many of thos when it was announced that disney bought it.
That investment looks better by the minute.
Fun fact: that's the shortest hold a movie has had on the record since the first Harry Potter (displaced at #1 by Spider-Man only 5.5 months later).
In the case of EpVIII, it helps that it'll be the 40th anniversary of ANH's release. You can bet Disney wants to milk that synergy to infinity
and beyond
I expect around the same or a little bit less.
XD
The time SW attempted a romantic subplot, we got EpII D:
BronsonLee
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And then bought millions of blu-rays and dvds just to make sure one more time of course
Diprosalic
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so are people now predicting this beats Avatar or what?
i always thought this was impossible.
i always thought this was impossible.
nah
avatar legs and worldwide appeal was insane. star wars ain't beating that. I think it'll reach $2 billion, though.
it already has avatar beat in opening weekend, but that's about it.
More_Badass
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All this Avatar talk, anyone have a link to the BO thread for when that came out? That must have been a fun thread
Maybe they confused you with Sculli
Obliterator
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Interesting that there are quite a few markets internationally that its opening behind Age of Ultron. It will smash it domestically though so no doubt be the bigger movie and its opening bigger in some other markets as well.
That said unless it has amazing holds it isn't beating Avatar
That said unless it has amazing holds it isn't beating Avatar
I want to see the thread for its second weekend, when it dropped like 2% lol
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