January 2016 is still up 50-60% in China over January 2015. The growth is mostly going to domestic films.
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Scary Movie 4 that parodies Signs is pretty hilarious. Leslie Nielson makes that movie.
PhoncipleBone
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I know twerking bets are supposedly the new in thing, but I have sent CharlesFosterKane his Joss Whedon avatar that he must wear for a month since Star Wars was not nominated for Best Picture. May he wear it with pride!
Scary Movie 3 & 4 were made by Zucker, not Wayans.
..and both of them werent funny either.
Never said they were, though scary movie 3 was better than the second one... which isn't really any achievement yeah.
Yeah, she really chose the worst possible way to exit this project, regardless of the justification.
Trump winning Iowa throws America and the World into chaos, all theaters around the world are destroyed, $899m dom and $1.99b ww to complete the cycle of ultimate box office blue balls.
Anyone has a handy reference to how much more JW and Sherlock made after that point in their respective runs?
frankie_baby
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Should eek it's way to at least 930
It lost over 800 theaters this weekend. Does it really have enough to reach 930?
frankie_baby
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It's still pulling a good per screen average, can see it hanging around in the lower reaches of the chart for a while
A lot of what we saw was a bounce back from storms though. I wanna stay hopeful; would love it to hit 930+.
Lifejumper
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11.12M weekend actuals for TFA. Great hold. https://mobile.twitter.com/BoxOffice/status/694244353041154048
That's great and normal after the last weekend's storm
935M seems reachable
Avengers made 39M+ after a 8,7M 7th weekend
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yeah, thought the actuals would knock it north of 11.
Should be north of 900 mil domestic early Friday, then.
Should be north of 900 mil domestic early Friday, then.
So to be conservative TFA will eventually break $925m in its first run, clearing the previous first-run record holder by $175m, or +23%.
Basically the next film that breaks this record, whenever that will be (and it will be an astonishing run to witness when it happens) will surely break $1b.
Basically the next film that breaks this record, whenever that will be (and it will be an astonishing run to witness when it happens) will surely break $1b.
Wonder if we're getting a rerelease.
That's a shame for Creed, it'll only add more ammo to "overseas audiences are racist"
I'm expecting one next year for the 40th anniversary of Star Wars. Limited screenings of all 7 films spread out throughout the year.
Well I'm doing my part tomorrow (UK).
GabeTheGrouch76
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A bit surprised TFA hasn't hit the $2 billion mark by now. Long past the thought of it reaching or surpassing Avatar or even Titanic now, but I was quite sure it would cap off past the $2 billion mark at the very least.
Fox distributed it, not Sony.
Fox distributed it, not Sony.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Overseas drops haven't been bad post-holidays, but they haven't been good either. As such, Avatar remains the fastest film to $2B.
Titanic was always going to be tough to beat with the current overseas currency market, and with the franchise being untested in some of the developing markets. $2B worldwide is an amazing performance given that TFA will likely double the previous franchise best (something that not even Furious 7 or Jurassic World managed to do).
On a sort of related note, I wonder how long Titanic will keep those biggest eighth to twelfth weekend records.
darkinstinct
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Inflation will make sure that a lot of movies break 1 billion. Thirty years from now prices will be at least 120 % higher than they are now. Which means every movie that currently reaches 450 million will approach 1 billion. Number of admissions is really the only way to compare movies.
This is still the third biggest initial run of all time (behind Titanic and E.T.) by admissions domestically.
GabeTheGrouch76
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Yeah, I'd say so. Ever since Seltzer and Friedberg shit the bed with their "parody" films, the genre seems to be deader than disco. Why is it so hard to get a legitimately good mainstream parody movie in Hollywood nowadays?
And that was only because that film had four (!) other screenwriters with them (with two of them being the aforementioned Seltzer and Friedberg...).
cj_iwakura
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If I had to guess, 'make fun of [popular film]' parodies are easier to sell than more original, broader spoofs like Kung Pow and Black Dynamite.
Oedekerk will save us if he ever makes Kung Pow II.
Macgruber
Bobby Roberts
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Looks like Monday was the first day that The Force Awakens made less than $1million in a day. Took 45 days to get there.
greatestjediever
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I was kind of amazed to see that TPM took over 60 days to get below $1M.
It probably will at some point. Biggest domestic film of all-time is going to find its way back to the big screen some years down the road.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yeah, it the same amount of time (45 days) for Jurassic World to finally dip below $1million in a day. 34 days for Ultron.
Avatar didn't dip below $1million in a day until it's 81st day in wide release. Took Titanic 101 days.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I remember some of us guessing after a couple weeks that it looked like it might be following Sherlock Holmes' path more than anything. did that basically end up being the case?
Still the GOAT box office run
Bobby Roberts
Banned
What's crazy is that it dipped below $2mil a day just after its 38th day, and then basically made $1.1-1.8mil every Mon-Thurs for the next 63 days. And then managed to make over $1mil on one of those days another four times after that.
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
There are some more movies that didn't get a rerelease that are in front:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr=1&p=.htm
The Sound of Music
The Ten Commandments
Jaws
Doctor Zhivago
I wouldn't be so sure with yearly Star Wars movies. And for the next years when they release new movies and repeat the prequels for those they will count as revenue towards the new film like it happened with that 57 million opening for TFA. Disney will basically release a new SW movie a year until everybody can't see those anymore - and at that point there is no request for a rerelease anyway.
Bobby Roberts
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Box Office Mojo's methodology for inflation adjusted figures is pretty borked, though.
Insane Metal
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What the shit... how? haha
I'm not sure how BOM defines "documented rereleases", but there's no way those didn't get rereleased. At least, definitely not the three that aren't Jaws.
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
Talking of legs, is there any explanation for how and why My Big Fat Greek Wedding did what it did?
Had a ridiculously slow and gradual roll out, taking 26 weeks to get over 2000 theaters, in its first 40 weeks it had just one weekend decline of over 25%
just looking at it now it perplexes me
Had a ridiculously slow and gradual roll out, taking 26 weeks to get over 2000 theaters, in its first 40 weeks it had just one weekend decline of over 25%
just looking at it now it perplexes me
Bobby Roberts
Banned
The entire section dealing with "adjusted for inflation" and "estimated ticket sales" needs to be fucking wiped. There's no real point to it, and their numbers/research sucks on top of that.
Thewonandonly
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People be getting tired of that American propaganda films
Bobby Roberts
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Unless it manages to make over a mil today (and it likely won't) looks like early Friday morning is when The Force Awakens crosses 900 million domestic.
https://twitter.com/BoxOffice/status/695325011989635072
Tomorrow it is. Exciting times.
EDIT: Oh that's Wednesday. Well either way it will be Friday, but yeah. I wonder if it can creep into the 920s.
Disney announces TFA will cross $900M today and $2B global tomorrow.
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/star-wars-force-awakens-crosses-box-office-milestone/
TFA "will click past $900M after 50 days in release."
"By comparison, former all-time champ Avatar stood at $612.7M at the same point in time in its domestic run...Titanic stood at $320M while last summer’s Jurassic World had $628.8M at the same time period." *Deadline
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/star-wars-force-awakens-crosses-box-office-milestone/
TFA "will click past $900M after 50 days in release."
"By comparison, former all-time champ Avatar stood at $612.7M at the same point in time in its domestic run...Titanic stood at $320M while last summer’s Jurassic World had $628.8M at the same time period." *Deadline
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