No, you are are jaded individual, who thinks every decision is about money. Well, yes, the studio probably didn't have a lot against making more cash due to 3 movies but it was the filmmakers approaching them.Sorry, fishnets, i don't read you posts. Reading the same crap over and over is tiresome.
$900m are saying that. Studios have made sequels for much less reasons.Btw, it wasn't a studio attempting to rake in more cash, it was the filmmakers wanting to tell more of the story.
So about as much as last week.I checked ROTK. It made $126m on its first 5 days, then $142m the week after from the same markets. With Australia opening, maybe Hobbit can increase, too...
Batman? Have you watched Batman & Robin?While many top earners are in 3D, they still sell only a fraction of total tickets in a given year, plus the 3D share of said movies are less than 50%.
It does work that way, sometimes. Look at Toy Story.Why should 2011 be up 126%? Only a fraction of all tickets sold are in 3D, the vast majority of movies are in 2D.
If ROTK can manage $550m adjusted for 3D / inflation DOM and probably around $1.8b (including market expansion in countries such as China and Russia) WW, then predicting something like $400m DOM / $1.4b WW for Hobbit is not out of whack.
People are twisting words. The school argument was in relation to the Monday drop. Had it held better during the week it would have had a respectable weekend drop as well. Nobody said the Tuesday increase was weak due to kids being in school.