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    Star Wars TFA 2nd Wknd Actual: 149.2M !!!

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    18 minutes ago, Baumer Fett said:

    Don't you think that because the prequels were underwhelming, that created even more demand for this film?  Bear with me.

     

    Several things had to happen to get the world's appetite for this movie to be insatiable.  George makes three films that made money but obviously not the kind of money they could have.  TPM was the only true massive film and that obviously had a lot to do with it being the first SW film in 16 years.  But then the entire series is under whelming to a lot of people.  So then George sells Lucasfilm to Disney and then they decide that the next series of films is going to have the old cast return.  These three things, imo, are what made SW so anticipated.  With the prequels disappointing so many this just made Disney be sure to make a film that all of the fans would enjoy.  And then they went out and got ballsy.  They hired JJ, an obvious Spielberg crony,  and we all know how close George and Steve are.  Then they decide that they are going to give us a story that has much closer ties to the originals.  Then they paid Ford between 20-23 million dollars to appear in the film and once the trailer broke with him and Chewy "being home" and the shots of the Falcon and so on, it was game on.  But imo, none of this is possible without the prequels being what they were.  They just created more demand for a better SW film.  And voila, this is the result.  They paid much more attention to what made the originals so endearing to the fans, and they capitalized on that.  But again, imo, all of this is possible because of the lackluster prequels.

    I completely agree! The fact that the prequels exist gives fans something to compare this new trilogy to. Something that wasn't made 30+ years ago! Most WOM includes something along the lines of "what the prequels should have been" . This is boosting it for sure. 

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    ***SPOILERS*** The Force Awakens Spoiler Thread ***SPOILERS ALLOWED*** You have been warned! DO NOT ENTER if you don't want to be spoiled

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    I'm sure this has been discussed already... But has anyone else noticed the lighting during the scene when Han dies? When the light is shining down on Ren he looks like he sincerely wants help from his father... The moment the light is gone he uses the saber to murder his father. I think he was genuinely battling with his 2 options and made the decision to kill Han last second. 

     

    He is an impulsive emotionally unstable and immature villian. Han almost persuaded him back to the light. Almost. 

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    WKD 3 Day Est. RA 41.2m, LS 23.2m, NJ 20.5, JR 17.2, FRZ 11.9

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    My nephew is very excited about the Lego movie... Maybe the parents will drop the kids off at Lego while they watch frozen. ;) haha. I can't imagine the Lego movie having the same adult + kid appeal that Frozen has. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Frozen finally having competition in it's.. 10th, 11th week? I think by that point in a movies run the effects of competing movies aren't as big of a deal... Because by the 10th week the audience is a lot of repeat business and those who finally are willing to go because it's in the cheap theater. But I'm no expert.Plus, I saw frozen twice last week. Not one single kid in either showing. No joke. One of the showings was even a matinee. Lego might not hurt frozen at all... It will likely push it into cheaper theaters which could help it. But again, I have no idea :P just thinking out loud.

    WKD 3 Day Est. RA 41.2m, LS 23.2m, NJ 20.5, JR 17.2, FRZ 11.9

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    I don't think it will get to 400.  It's going to need some veeery strong holds to get there.  I think at this point passing DM2 is a really good goal and as obvious as it is that it will get there, I just don't think it will go much higher.

    I agree with this... 400M is just out of reach. But on the other hand, a few weeks ago DM2 was out of reach...So who knows? 400 would be astonishing, but so would 380-390.
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    Monday, 1/13/2014 numbers-TLS@3.31M

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    So I went through and checked every film with 300 million or more domestic for consecutive days above 1 million. 101 Titanic80 Avatar61 Star Wars: TPM59 Finding Nemo54 Shrek 2 Jurassic Park52 The Avengers48 The Passion47 Frozen PotC: CotBP45 Toy Story 3 Catching Fire Spider-Man42 Independence Day40 The Dark Knight Spider-Man 2 Despicable Me 238 TDKR PotC: DMC Shrek 3 Iron Man36 Transformers: RotF35 Star Wars: RotS34 Transformers LotR: Fellowship of the Ring Star Wars: AotC33 The Hunger Games Harry Potter: DH2 Transformers: DotM Indiana Jones: KotCS Harry Potter: HBP Twilight: Eclipse32 Alice in Wonderland31 Iron Man 3 Iron Man 2 PotC: AWE Skyfall The Hobbit AUJ28 LotR: Return of the King LotR: The Two Towers26 Spider-Man 324 Harry Potter: SS

    Thanks for this!

    Weekend Estimates: LS - 38.5M | FZ - 15.1M | WoWS - 9M | Hercules - 8.6M | AH - 8.6M | Her - 5.4M

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    Hell, I'd be shocked if much higher than 12 with less than 3 on Friday ...

    Yeah, 14 seems way too high. I was thinking Friday would be over 3 million for sure. Maybe saturday will have a bigger than expected increase because of school. In my area, Frozen is only playing through the Matinee hours, no night showings. (What about other areas? anyone else seeing the evening showings getting cut?) So any kids getting out of school today had only 1, maybe 2 showings to see before it was done for the day.  The Saturday increase would have to be pretty big though to reach 14. I guess anything is possible. 

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