Annayya

Thanks for the confirmation How does the screen count change due to the extension? Do you think it could go higher than 1.2 billion with the extension ?

Zootopia and Dangal are both Disney movies. I am not sure if Disney had any influence in getting the extension approved.

Is this the last week for Dangal in theaters ?

That's very disappointing as I heard Baahubali had a big release with 6000 screens. I thought it would do at least as good as PK in China.

Great to see Zootopia doing so well in Japan helping it pass the $1 billion total. Will Jungle Book see a similar acceptance in Japan pushing it beyond $1 billion as well? Its releasing on August 11th.

You are so full of it and assume that you know everytihng, and its foolish for you to think that everyone knows everything I say. Let's not even talk about off topic, with your 6,500 posts there's no end to the number of off topic discussions you made. I have even found posts from you about your personal opinions. A lengthy recent example is listed below for your reference.

Hollywood Studio's box office is always measured and reported in US dollars. When a movie makes money overseas, it is immediately converted to USA dollars from any currency worldwide and any adjustment or damage due to bad inflation is already accounted for in that particular year. As the conversion to USA dollars occurred immediately for box office reporting purposes, I don't care if the Russian inflation hits 1000% the next year. My calculation will be based on the money the studio reported the box office in US dollars for domestic and overseas. The logic is simple, if Disney makes 100 million Euros in Germany from a movie, they are not leaving all the money in some German bank locked for eternity in order for me to worry about the inflation rate by each country. If a country's currency value is poor in 2015 such as Russia, the Russian box office amount reported in US dollars by Disney in 2015 would already have accounted for that loss. When I calculate inflation in the year 2025, it is irrelevant what the inflation of Russia is as I will use the US dollar as base and hence the only inflation that matters to my calculation is USA dollar.

Thanks for educating me on where to post what. Except for my post, I guess 99.999% of the posts in this website are very appropriate to the thread title/topic and there is absolutely no deviation. In terms of accuracy of the numbers, I said it was a rough approximation. I wasn't trying to prepare a thesis on this for you.

We already have confirmed box office figures in US dollars for both domestic and overseas. Based on the inflation calculation by boxofficemojo domestically here, its easy to calculate the amount for the overseas. It will always be an approximation ofcourse. The adjuster includes average ticket price. For example, if a movie made $1 on 1939, and that $1 is worth $8 in 2016, the original value is multiplied by 8 for overseas as well. The final actual adjusted amount could only be lower than my estimate for overseas as the movies are usually released several years later overseas with many re-releases in the past (prior to 1990s). The inflation rate decreases as the movie releases a few years later overseas, but you need extremely detailed box office stats to calculate that accurately. Titanic re-release was very recent so its easy for me to reduce the inflation accordingly for the $348 million it made in 2012.

Unfortunately, other than Japan I don't think any other country provides this information accurately.

I have just done some rough calculations and it seems Titanic and Avatar were more successful compared to even the original Star Wars movie from 1977, even after adjusting for inflation. Star Wars (1977) Domestic = $460,998,007 which is $1,533,609,700 adjusted for inflation Overseas = $314,400,000 which is $1,045,919,683 adjusted for inflation Worldwide Total = $775,398,007 which is $2,579,529,383 adjusted for inflation Avatar (2009) Domestic = $760,507,625 which is $837,367,900 adjusted for inflation Overseas = $2,027,457,462 which is $2,232,361,309 adjusted for inflation Worldwide Total = $2,787,965,087 which is $3,069,729,209 adjusted for inflation Titanic (1997) Domestic = $658,672,302 which is $1,166,435,200 adjusted for inflation Overseas = $1,528,100,000 which is $2,428,574,848 adjusted for inflation ($348 million 3D re-release inflation conversion is only considered for the value increased from 2012 to 2015) Worldwide Total = $2,186,772,302 which is $3,595,010,048 adjusted for inflation Gone With the Wind (1939) Domestic = $198,676,459 which is $1,739,604,200 adjusted for inflation Overseas = $201,500,000 which is $1,764,327,027 adjusted for inflation Worldwide Total = $400,176,459 which is $3,503,931,227 adjusted for inflation So the adjusted for inflation worldwide gross is this: 1) Titanic 2) Gone with the Wind 3) Avatar 4) Star Wars (1977) Note: I have not taken the crazy re-releases into calculation for overseas releases of Star Wars and Gone with the wind which have released multiple times several years and decades later. The final adjusted inflation value if anything, will only be lower so the worldwide rankings above will be similar. Source for Domestic Inflation calculation is boxofficemojo

Now that Star Wars had its second week done in China, we should have a better estimate of what the final total will be from China. I am thinking $125 million. Could it be significantly higher?

Excellent. Glad to hear that Star Wars will do poorly in China. I just don't understand what's so good about this movie that people in USA, Canada, UK are crazy about. Now, if somehow it doesn't beat the Titanic Worldwide Gross I will be happier. There's no way it can reach Avatar anyway at the current rate its declining at most world markets including domestic.

What is the last day for Avengers in China and will it allow it to go past $250 million ? Avengers needs $1.52 billion worldwide to beat Furious 7 and sit at #3 worldwide all time, and China is the country that can significantly help it get there.

Will Big Hero 6 run until the Golden week with enough screens to make an impact at the box office or will there be way too much competition by then ?

If Big Hero 6 makes even $100 million in Japan, its a huge win for Disney With the Frozen craze still fresh in people's mind, the amazing popularity of Disney brand in Japan, and the excellent reviews of BH6 I think this is possible.

China government has recently allowed the Chinese to have a second baby ... so expect more moviegoers Indian local movies are too dominating, and in addition the ticket prices are too cheap so it won't be anywhere in the top 5 in the next decade.

I remember about Frozen being #2 on opening weekend, but that's because Hunger Games 2 did too good even in its second weekend. Frozen unintentionally ended up in #2, I don't think Disney was expecting that. In comparision, the first Hunger Games second weekend was at $58 million, and the second Hunger Games second weekend was $74 million. Anyway ... everything about Frozen was unpredictable Tangled did NOT do well at domestic boxoffice. It barely passed $200 million, while the budget itself was $260 million + over $100 million for marketing. I just think Big Hero 6 should have released before Interstellar.

I wonder how well Big Hero 6 will do in Japan. Disney is only waiting 6 weeks to release in Japan after domestic release. At least Interstellar won't be a competition in Japan as it is releasing a month before Big Hero 6. Its stupid to release any big budget ($150+ million) movie in the USA/Canada market on the same week. Interstellar will do better than Big Hero 6. Why would Disney give up being #1 movie on a weekend ?

Great to hear that Frozen finally exceeded all crazy calculations to being the #1 movie in terms of USA $. I also like how its 2nd in admissions and 3rd in Yen How are the current DVD/Blu-ray/Digital sales doing at this point. Do we have a total ?

Me too. I actually created an account on this website because of Frozen

Well said. The lack of sufficient comedy definitely has affected HTTYD2.

A year ago no one would have expected Frozen to perform better than HTTYD2, but today no one expects HTTYD2 to make even half of what Frozen made. I think HTTYD2 should have done better domestically. I don't know what went wrong. Everyone who saw it liked it.

I hope you didn't double dip or pay crazy amount to import the 3D BD from UK. As far as I know Frozen 3D Blu-ray has not released in the USA. You were supposed to boycott the Frozen 3D Blu-ray because Disney got greedy and cancelled the 3D Blu-ray release from Amazon to make money from their online release of the 3D version. I have therefore bought the collectors edition Blu-ray (2D) as I was forced to cancel my 3D Blu-ray order from Amazon by Disney. Out of anger I downloaded the UK 3D Blu-ray for FREE I like frozen a lot but for Disney to pull this stunt really disappointed me. After spending over $100 for Frozen in movie tickets and 2D Blu-ray I have decided not to spend a cent more on this until the sequel comes out. Fortunately I have no kids yet, so lots of savings on the merchandise http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=233531 http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1yq5bm/disney_cancels_3d_bluray_release_for_frozen_for/ All digital movies suck compared to Blu-ray quality ... this is very clearly visible if you are watching on a 120 in screen with a HD projector like I do. Even the sound quality isn't as good as a Blu-ray. The reason for this is simple, when you stream something the file size is no where close to 50GB, not even a quarter of that. So how can Disney expect me to buy their crappy digital 3D version

So, does Frozen still have a chance of passing $250 million? I know its extremely close right now.