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Rogue 1 beat one record!!

She wasn't even a Girlfriend, just an ex-lover.

I actually think it sounds good...

Not sure how bad I should feel, but it's been a long time since I've enjoyed a movie getting poor reviews.

I'm more interested now than I was before. Kind of wish I hadn't seen the Twist though.

Too young for OT releases, but saw every Special Edition in theaters, PT, TFA, and going to be R1 tonight. (Did not see TPM in 3D)

Anyone done a parking lot check yet?

SW is a Merch gold mine. I want some of that dough.

I love those numbers. SW T-Shirts got to be making a killing too.

ILM In the long run could be worth the 4B. It's easy to focus on SW, but I'm also curious what a new Indy film could do.

I know, just being a bit exaggerated with it. 4 Billion for Lucas Film was a great deal, let's not forget Disney also owns Indy and ILM now.

That 63% percent drop though.

They haven't already? The merch alone had to drop a billion into that bucket.

A third of all Films released by Disney this year were small budget films. (4 out of 12)

So...They use the profits from the mid-budget movies to afford the big budget movies?

Fatigue! Got to start predicting it early, just to make sure you're right when it eventually happens.

And without the blockbusters they wouldn't have the money to make those movies. So...they rely on blockbusters.

Ok...I disagree with this assertion. There is nothing to suggest SW Fatigue. Where is any of your data to support it?

You can't really compare Collateral, Sing, or Passengers to any Summer Blockbuster film. Also, there is no data to back up your hypothesis here, all available data points to the opposite being true.

200M

It's BO 101 (Maybe 102). Movies opening at different times of year have different types of legs, Holiday's affect performance. DEC releases tend to benefit from 3x multis, even poorly received films, especially since Jan is a pretty dead month. A movie opening in May doesn't benefit from any holiday 1-2, plus being blockbuster season has a big opener open every weekend to cut at it's legs, ensuring that you will see 2x multis.

I'll just comment on "Star Wars Fatigue". if after 8 years we haven't had MCU fatigue, or even Super hero fatigue, perhaps arguing SW fatigue or even saturation is a bit...much. List of MCU WW gross by year. 2008 $848.60 2010 $623.90 2011 $819.90 2012 $1,518.80 2013 $1,859.40 2014 $1,487.60 2015 $1,924.70 2016 $1,801.00 List of MCU Dom Gross by year. 2016 $630,765,718 2015 $639,208,031 2014 $592,943,172 2013 $615,376,134 2012 $623,357,910 2011 $357,685,129 2010 $312,433,331 2008 $453,219,014