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re: Star Wars TFA Makes $247M in Opening Weekend; Up To $1B Worldwide
Posted on 12/18/15 at 2:03 pm to GIbson05
Posted on 12/18/15 at 2:03 pm to GIbson05
quote:True but sometimes they have to agree to show it a certain amount of time for them to get it in their theater. I think , I think Star Wars has a deal like that.
The time a movie is in theaters is set by the number of people still going to see it. If it is still pulling in boat loads of money they wont pull it. TFA could run for just as long if people are still going to see it.
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Posted on 12/18/15 at 2:19 pm to Tigerdew
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large chunk of the audience from Thursday will probably see it again before the end of 2015.
Yep. I'll be seeing it Saturday night again just to see it in 2D.
Posted on 12/18/15 at 2:26 pm to MeauxMoney
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Yep. I'll be seeing it Saturday night again just to see it in 2D.
Doing this too. Watching in IMAX 3D first just to say I did. Then Sunday going to see it in 2D.
I hate 3D with a passion but for some reason I feel like I have to see this show in IMAX. Sadly no IMAX 2D around here.
This post was edited on 12/18/15 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 12/18/15 at 2:55 pm to ell_13
75% of the tickets bought were males last night. Imagine if they had girlfriends how much more this movie could make
Posted on 12/18/15 at 3:08 pm to Fun Bunch
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How Avatar made that is beyond perplexing.
It has no lasting impact. No one cares about it at all. Just...bizarre.
The graphics in the movie was spectacular, but I agree. Avatar was honestly not a good movie at all, and I was shocked that it made over $2.7 billion, or however much it made.
Posted on 12/18/15 at 3:41 pm to lsusportsman2
Avatar in 3D was the best movie experience I've ever had. Movie was ok, but seeing it in the theater like that was awesome.
Posted on 12/18/15 at 4:18 pm to lsusportsman2
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I was shocked that it made over $2.7 billion
You have to understand international money gets calculated, and what drives those ticket sales.
It was a simple story (culturally understandable in most languages) with great effects, which translates into big money overseas.
Posted on 12/18/15 at 5:04 pm to Tigerdew
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The thing this movie has going for it is a large chunk of the audience from Thursday will probably see it again before the end of 2015.
Can confirm saw it last night and am seeing it again tomorrow.
Posted on 12/18/15 at 5:24 pm to Rebel Land Shark
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4TH UPDATE WRITETHRU, FRIDAY 2 PM: Distribution executives are in complete awe and just can’t believe what they’re witnessing hour by hour. After shattering the box office industry’s preview-night record with $57 million on Thursday, Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set to knock over opening-day and weekend records left and right. You can scratch out that $110M opening day we heard about earlier. Force Awakens Friday — which includes that $57M it made in Thursday previews — is between $130M-$145M per industry estimates (not Disney). This puts Force Awakens in an opening-weekend range of $250M-$275M; a gross that sends Universal’s Jurassic World current opening-weekend record of $208.8M back to the Stone Age.
Fuccccckkkkkk
Posted on 12/18/15 at 5:32 pm to ell_13
totally deserved 
Posted on 12/18/15 at 5:38 pm to GIbson05
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I doubt it takes the top spot on all-time. $2.7 Billion is hard to beat. It'll come in #3 probably.
it's incredibly how Titanic has held up over time.
Posted on 12/18/15 at 5:39 pm to Tigerdew
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The thing this movie has going for it is a large chunk of the audience from Thursday will probably see it again before the end of 2015. Maybe even 3-4 times. I expect this thing to break every record ever recorded.
all of this
I'll be one of them
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:00 pm to Fun Bunch
Should have put a little money down on the $275-$300 range for +700 
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:34 pm to Fun Bunch
I am in my center top-row seat and patiently waiting for 7 pm!!!!!....!!!!....!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 12/19/15 at 10:38 am to ell_13
Posted on 12/19/15 at 12:31 pm to LSU6262
Updated OP
Looks like the range is $230-$250M for the weekend
Looks like the range is $230-$250M for the weekend
Posted on 12/19/15 at 12:38 pm to sealawyer
Avatar was Dances with Wolves minus Kevin Costner but plus blue people.
Posted on 12/19/15 at 12:54 pm to Jcorye1
It was Pocahontas but with...
It was just Pocahontas
It was just Pocahontas
Posted on 12/19/15 at 1:28 pm to ell_13
The first Avatar had a basic plot by design. Cameron had been longing to create his own film universe for quite some time and that movie, with a safe plot with interesting enough characters in an absolutely gorgeous, unique and wide open world, allowed him to do that.
As for its success you have to consider all of the factors that played into its success. For one, it completely reinvented what a 3D movie experience can be and honestly there hasn't been a movie before or since that has recreated it. It came out at the end of the year and made most of its money in January and February when jackshit is going on at the movies. The marketing on that movie was some of the best you'll ever see. When it was being advertised for a female audience, they hyped up the romance with "romance music" and emphasized it was from the director of Titanic. When it was being advertised to during football or other sports events, they hyped the action and epic score and marketed it as from the director of Terminator and The Abyss.
There really was a perfect storm for that movie. Internationally, well, everyone hates America (because they ain't us), so that was an easy sell overseas
As for its success you have to consider all of the factors that played into its success. For one, it completely reinvented what a 3D movie experience can be and honestly there hasn't been a movie before or since that has recreated it. It came out at the end of the year and made most of its money in January and February when jackshit is going on at the movies. The marketing on that movie was some of the best you'll ever see. When it was being advertised for a female audience, they hyped up the romance with "romance music" and emphasized it was from the director of Titanic. When it was being advertised to during football or other sports events, they hyped the action and epic score and marketed it as from the director of Terminator and The Abyss.
There really was a perfect storm for that movie. Internationally, well, everyone hates America (because they ain't us), so that was an easy sell overseas
Posted on 12/19/15 at 2:03 pm to ReturnoftheMuschamp
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Internationally, well, everyone hates America (because they ain't us), so that was an easy sell overseas
And that was what really set it over the top overseas. Its basically a middle finger subliminally to western colonialism.
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