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  1. Anyone think this performance will change the stigma of the R Rating as box office poison or is Deadpool just a well marketed oddity?
  2. That's what dollar amounts are for. That's when you follow the march to $1 billion instead of the march to 100 million tickets. Then you go into production budgets and hey, that free to play game can afford Arnold Schwarzenegger in it's commercials that air in prime time. What kind of in app revenue could support such a massive ad budget? And so on and so on.
  3. The final run: Now TFA is performing less Avatar-like and more like a normal blockbuster. It's still due another $200 million plus, especially since it'll probably hold on to it's PLF and IMAX screens for another 3 weeks.
  4. More fun with the Avatar Run: These records are going to be obliterated so badly that it's going to take a miraculous run and 20 years of ticket price inflation to even approach them. It took 11 years for another film to approach ET's original release total (Jurassic Park) and another 4 for a film to finally surpass it (Titanic). Titanic's record took 12 years and 3D to be surpassed.
  5. Updated Avatar Run: The actual percentage drops day to day for TFA are disturbingly close to Avatar's. We might get more $30 million weekdays from it next week.
  6. The Avatar Run (Avatar's daily % drops compared to TFA's Sunday going forward) as of now puts TFA close to $400 million for the first week, which is surprisingly possible. Holiday weekdays can make anything happen.
  7. On Discount Tuesday during Christmas Break? I don't think so, even with the massive grosses TFA is bringing in. Watch it do another $35-40 million Wednesday will be the nosedive, if anything.
  8. Food for thought: The last time a OW record holder had a multiplier higher than 4 was Jurassic Park back in 1993.
  9. Watch as TFA has a better first Monday drop than Avatar. The only thing stopping this film is some Day After Tomorrow-esque weather event.
  10. Updated Avatar run: I think a $40 million Monday is going to happen. At the very least, it's going to break the Monday record and probably Tuesday too.
  11. I didn't like that either. Instead of making Finn and Rey look better, it made Ren look worse and hurt his menace for future films. As for the Death Star, Vader clipped several fighters in addition to the ones he destroyed, including Luke, indicating that his TIE targeting might not be the best. Luke had an introductory course in the Force on the Falcon and stretched his reach out for the first time under Obi Wan's eyes, something Rey didn't have. Plus, before Luke could even fire, he was saved by Han blowing away Vader's wingman and breaking up his formation.
  12. Luke is repeatedly mentioned as being an excellent bush pilot and being able to hit small targets using his T-16's laser cannon. Anakin winning the pod race (something he's never done) is convenient, but he's raced in them before. I didn't mind Rey being able to pilot the Falcon or winning the respect of Han (both possible Sue-ish traits). I just found it a bit off that she was able to pull out Force powers and beat a Sith (who, as a Dark Side practicioner, thrives on emotion and anger to drive his power) without having some kind of tutelage first. This isn't the first time the franchise had criticism for overpowered author avatars. You could pick apart Luke as a self insert character. Had the prequels came first, we would have.
  13. I think what's skewing this is the only holiday time comparison we have is Avatar, a box office freak. That and we've never seen an opener this large in this time frame, so we don't really know how the weekdays will really play out. Crazy thing is, I think $800 million is a worst case scenario.
  14. Remember, Avatar did roughly $400 million after it's holiday weekends. So whatever you think TFA is going to do for the next three weekends, tack on at least $200 mil for the rest of it's run.
  15. What's the fastest a domestic gross record was established? Avatar beat Titanic in 47 days, Titanic beat the combined Star Wars gross in 86, and it took ET over 200 days to overtake Star Wars originally. If the holidays do their thing, we could have a new all time champ in 3 weeks.
  16. My guess is a lot of ROTJ's first showings were of the 70mm Premium variety, commanding higher ticket prices than normal. Like if TFA was only released in 3D PLF variants.
  17. Does this include the $60 marathon showings from Thursday? I don't know how widespread they were, but they might have done big in major cities.
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