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Posts posted by Jussslic
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AVTR's magnitude of success was shocking. No debate, and listed in my top five most astonishing box office tales just a few pages back....
Yeah this is unbelievable. Crazy enough that it has me posting about boxoffice again which is very irregular for me. Haha I just posted on Facebook about it even though I'm 100% sure that nobody I know in real life gives a damn about this film's OW.
The most astonishing for me though is still the DH II midnights, probably because I was there to witness it. It was like a festival of fandom, and hands down the best audience I've ever watched a movie with. And then the numbers....
I'm actually curious; has there ever been a more concentrated span of business for any film in history or is that it?
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Umm.....he's still around on these forums.
Hahah I've always wondered, but I'm honestly not around enough to know whether you're kidding. I hope you're serious though.
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Are you really BKB? If so, I never got a chance to acknowledge your insane success - against EVERYBODY'S expectations - that TA was going to be as monstrous as it was, and that it would beat TDKR. I was among the people mocking you (and predicting massive disappointment for TA, lolol). Mea culpa, BKB.
You know, I'm obviously not a regular poster but I'm a long term lurker. I would stilllll like to congratulate Kal on his insane success predicting - against EVERYBODY'S expectations - that Avatar was going to light the biggest fire the box office has ever seen.
Well played, Kal bud.
(Gosht that guy was such a trip. I wonder if he's still engaging in ferocious box office flame wars somewhere out there in the wider web.)
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I'm a hugeee fan of both Moebius and Chris Foss.... incredibly excited to see this doc.
$179M/450M
But seriously, I will probably cry tears of joy at least once during this.
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How could anyone have Scott Pilgrim at the top of the list?? It just screams shitty taste...
Says you. Taste is subjective.
Anyway, Scott Pilgrim is everything I look for in a comedy. Witty, playful, uniquely shot and edited, heartfelt. It's fine if it's not your taste, but that doesn't really make it shitty.
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Ooo, I wanna play.
1. Scott Pilgrim
2. Avengers
3. Iron Man
4. Men in Black
5. TDK
6. Nausicaa
7. American Splendor
8. Sin City
9. Ghost World
10. Oblivion - This film is so flawed, but the production design is just beautiful.
I like all the Marvel stuff though, and it feels weird not having one of Rami's Spidey films. Also, I'm totally ashamed to say I haven't seen Oldboy and Akira. Need to get on that. And I haven't watched Blue is the Warmest Colour yet.
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Did anyone else catch that the third yearbook picture they show of Maeby in episode 12??
Thought the folks here would appreciate that.
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Lol, sorry I never got to see this "Kal-El" fellow. He sounds epicly nuts.
Haha I hardly ever post on these forums, but I've been casually reading since the DMC / Superman Returns summer on BoM.
Even as a casual reader I remember Kal-El, he was craaazy but I have to admit it was entertaining. Man, Avatar would have been his swan song... his insane predictions were actually pretty close to what ended up happening.
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Spot on, except I'd call the Avengers less of a caricature and more of a culmination.The other thing that I think a lot of people will remember fondly, is one of the most flawless stretches of filmmaking in history from Pixar.If you go beyond filmmaking though, the defining cultural phenomenon of the 2000s is undoubtedly Harry Potter.I don't think the 2000s decade will be remembered for 1 movie or 1 franchise, but for the 50,000 superhero movies have have come out, kinda like the 80s for its style of action movies.So, probably the Avengers because the movie is a perfect caricature of that.
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This says it all in my opinion. Dunst has certainly had longevity in Hollywood, but she's never been the huge star that Emma Stone is becoming.At the same time, you can't really judge a celebrity's star factor by box office alone... by that measure someone like Orlando Bloom would probably look like one of the biggest stars of all time simply because he was part of two mega-trilogies... but it's not like he carried either of them.Emma Stone: $883 million WW without Spider-Man over 5 years.Kirsten Dunst: $1.1 billion WW without Spider-Man over 18 years.Stone is way hotter than Dunst ever was.
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I can't imagine a person in the world who would dispute this.I was thinking about Williams today, funnily enough. He's a genius. An actual genius.
It's absolutely crazy to think about what he's done in his career.
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No apparently Chris Hemsworth has been recast in both roles.LOLSo Ford would be computer-cloned?
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Just heard news that George Lucas is coming out of retirement for the long awaited Star Wars/Indiana Jones crossover.Yeah I think that team-ups and crossovers are the future. The next logical team-up and perhaps an even bigger one would be a Justice League movie.
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And pretty much ten years on the nose since SM1.And its taken only 5 years from a movie making 150m in 3 days to 150m in 2 days.
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I used to work at Best Buy and remember what it was like on black friday.....I imagine that's what these openings are like for you guys, except this year you get to do it three or four times.Yeah, it's crazy because a normal Sunday is between 1600-1700.The Avengers alone did 2700 today by itself. I can't believe it honestly, and I saw it with my own eyes!
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They're on 291 & 292You mentioned your other tables, what other tables did you post?
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Those drops are pretty definitive evidence that you can't extrapolate from one theater...
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Holy crap, if that Sunday drop has any bearing on the rest of the country 210 may actually be in the cards!
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Interesting....You could go 60% 3d, 8% Imax, and 32% 2d, and it would go even higher.... 228millionish. The thing I was wondering is whether there are enough 3D screens at this point to accomodate that volume or whether you'd start seeing spillover into the second weekend like with Avatar.Let's say that the IMAX share is 0%, 2D and 3D. Format Gross Share Price Tickets 3D $159,809,650 65.0% $11.18 14,300,000 IMAX 3D $- 0.0% $14.85 - Other $- 0.0% $15.30 - 2D $60,275,600 35.0% $7.83 7,700,000 IMAX $- 0.0% $14.50 - Total $220,085,250 $10.00 22,000,000
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Haha I'm sure he could.I'm sure spizzer can calculate that for ya.
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I was wondering this exact same thing. I was also just wondering what a hypothetical film with 22m admissions and a 65(ish)% 3d share would gross OW. Or whether 22m admissions is even possible with a 65% 3d share...With TDK, SM3, and TA all around 22m admissions, it begs the question if that's the most a film can do right now. TDKR will have to put it to the test. It has several advantages. More potential for midnights and if it experiences spillover, we can be in for another massive Sunday.
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Man, if another movie ever comes around with a 3D share like Avatar and front-end demand like the Avengers, what the hell is the upper ceiling?
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Definitely.That's the only impressive thing about DH2 compared to TA.
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Most impressive thing about DH2 has always been and will always be the midnights number. That was insanity.Seriously, TA has totally made DH2's OW its bitch. Not just the total is 30m bigger, but it totally destroied DH2 on Saturday and Sunday.
Weekend Actuals (Page 93): TFA 42.35M | The Revenant 39.83M | Daddy's Home 15.02M | The Forest 12.74M | Sisters 7.19M
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Hey, McKay managed to make a very funny film about a very serious financial disaster. Who knows, he might just have the perfect combination of comedic and dramatic sensibilities to make an informative but entertaining film about Syria.