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re: Avengers Endgame Box Office Watch - Now just $15.5M behind Avatars Record
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:35 pm to Gusoline
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:35 pm to Gusoline
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Tickets cost half as much when titanic came out
Titanic is still 5th all time based on number of tickets sold. Gone with the Wind tickets were 23 cents and Star Wars IV just over $2.
Rank Title (click to view) Studio Est. Tickets
1 Gone with the Wind MGM 202,285,600
2 Star Wars Fox 178,119,600
3 The Sound of Music Fox 142,485,200
4 E.T. Uni. 141,854,300
5 Titanic Par. 135,549,800
6 The Ten Commandments Par. 131,000,000
7 Jaws Uni. 128,078,800
8 Doctor Zhivago MGM 124,135,500
9 The Exorcist WB 110,599,200
10 Snow White Dis. 109,000,000
11 Star Wars: TFA BV 108,115,100
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Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:39 pm to 3nOut
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I don’t get why this movie was as big as it was. I don’t love Titanic a lot but I understand it’s place in the world and why it made its money.
Avatar was terrible in every regard but the VFX.
Exactly. Titanic was an epic love story set in one of the biggest tragedies of the 20th Century with some remarkable effects for the time. Avatar is garbage
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:40 pm to WicKed WayZ
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Exactly. Titanic was an epic love story set in one of the biggest tragedies of the 20th Century with some remarkable effects for the time. Avatar is garbage
I’ve said it before in an unpopular opinion thread, but I like Tron more than Avatar.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:41 pm to Volvagia
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To sit there and act like the industry consensus was that it was going to definitely go above a billion with just Thursday's numbers is made up bullshite.
I was wrong, but lets not act like I was looking at data from Saturday with Friday's numbers when I made it.
Dude. The industry didn’t have a consensus one way or the other, many said it was trending over a billion because it was wildly beating expectations but you’re said that because of the numbers available on Friday, that EVERY projection “agreed” with you. You’re the one making up a straw man now. Stop.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:46 pm to WicKed WayZ
The special effects and 3D really captivated people. Even this board was in love with it when released. I remember posters being upset at me for saying I fell asleep watching it
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:49 pm to RLDSC FAN
Avatar was not very good. A rehashed story on an alien planet. The only thing it had going for it was special effects. I have still not made it all the way through it in one sitting.
This post was edited on 4/28/19 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:59 pm to RLDSC FAN
I can’t believe that
Posted on 4/28/19 at 2:31 pm to Volvagia
Finally getting to go with a few people today.
First two showings I tried are already sold out. Showings are every 15 minutes though
First two showings I tried are already sold out. Showings are every 15 minutes though
Posted on 4/28/19 at 2:38 pm to TideWarrior
I don't think you can really compare modern movies to old ones via tickets sold. Up until the late 70s you pretty much weren't going to have a chance to see a movie once it was out of theaters unless you were lucky enough for it to come onto TV. Even then it took until the mid 80s for VHS prices to drop, the explosion in the amount of video rental stores, and the rise of cable networks that needed programing for it to be easy to see a film after it's theatrical run.
shite, it wasn't that long ago that it still took at least a year or more to get a movie on VHS or DVD after it's initial release. These days movies tend to be out for purchase 6 months or less after the film is done in theaters.
shite, it wasn't that long ago that it still took at least a year or more to get a movie on VHS or DVD after it's initial release. These days movies tend to be out for purchase 6 months or less after the film is done in theaters.
This post was edited on 4/28/19 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 4/28/19 at 2:38 pm to Dr.Funke
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1.2 Billion Opening Weekend + counting
Posted on 4/28/19 at 4:20 pm to partywiththelombardi
Gone with the Wind will never be bested in tickets sold domestically purely due to technological advances. Television didn’t exist. If you wanted to watch anything recorded on film in those days you had to go to the movies. They even attached newsreels to the beginning of films back in those days - where were now see advertisements and trailers (which use to be shown post film, hence their name).
Posted on 4/28/19 at 4:25 pm to TheeRealCarolina
I call bullshite on Gone with the Wind's ticket sales numbers anyway. Who the frick was keeping track in 1939?
Posted on 4/28/19 at 4:28 pm to RLDSC FAN
I still haven’t seen Avatar
Posted on 4/28/19 at 5:11 pm to Mystery
The theater I went to had only four non Avengers movies playing. The rest were all MCU screens.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 5:29 pm to xenythx
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I call bullshite on Gone with the Wind's ticket sales numbers anyway. Who the frick was keeping track in 1939?
The people running the movie industry back in the day were some of the best at numbers and keeping track of things. But I do believe it ran for almost 4 years at the theaters.
One other thing to remember is the population today is also 3 times that of what it was in 1939. You have 200 million more people in the US now then when GWTW came out.
This post was edited on 4/28/19 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 4/28/19 at 5:46 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Avengers Endgame Box Office Watch - 1.2 Billion Opening Weekend
It's still not beating Avatar's Worldwide record. Posted on 4/28/19 at 5:48 pm to TideWarrior
You also had less than a third of the amount of movies that are being released into theaters today as well. And a third is being very generous. Probably was one fifth.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 7:08 pm to Bench McElroy
I think it's more likely that it does than it doesn't. It's not going to take much from here. If it does 900 mil, domestically, it's a lock.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 7:13 pm to 3nOut
I agree with your thoughts about Avatar completely. I don't see how Titantic made "as much" as it did. I get the 14 year old girl repeat viewing angle, but damn. It wasn't that great of a story (Rose, Jack, the necklace) and everybody knew the ship would sink--lol. I do tip my hat to the cast, crew, and director. They pulled it off.
Posted on 4/28/19 at 7:17 pm to RLDSC FAN
I might be the only movie that can challenge Gone with the Wind and Song of the SOuth.
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