JJF

Hello everyone! I've been lurking in this forum since Catching Fire days (I know, it's been so long that it's even creepy). I highly enjoy box office theory but I hadn't signed up before because I cannot really add much to the forum, as people here are already very familiar with box office and know much more than what I do. However, these past days I've been paying attention to The Rise of Skywalker presales and there's something that concerns me and that I wanted to ask here so that any of you could shed some light on it. Experts and those who follow tracking here seem to be concerned about TROS presales being quite lower than TFA and TLJ presales. But are they really that low for previews-FSS? I remember reading an article back in 2015 about TFA breaking 100 million presales. According to the article published December 16, 2015 (two days before TFA release): "The seventh installment in the “Star Wars” saga is set to create ripple effects across the industry, as advance ticket sales in North America have surpassed the $100 million mark, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday that this $100 million figure includes the $50 million to $60 million in sales for its opening weekend" As Jedi Jat mentioned, presales for the weekend are around $49,5 million right now. So, is it really that bad? I know that presales have rocketed in these past 4 years and that it needs to be taken into account. Yet, SW has always been presales heavy and I assume that movies over this period of time have been adjusting to what TFA had previously achieved. I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something crucial, but I've sensed some doom and gloom when we are still 19 days away from OD and presales for the weekend itself don't seem that bad (though probably lagging behind TFA ones), especially when taking into account how scattered presales for TFA were. Sorry for the long post and thank you to any of you who may answer. Ps: find attached the link to the web where I took the reference from: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/16/star-wars-the-force-awakens-surpasses-100m-in-advanced-ticket-sales-report.html