Lordmandeep Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Yes John Marston. It seems nuts but New Moon did insane Friday business with big midnights so I think this can. However 55+ is absurd. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 We program about 25 Hollywood titles globally and carry another five or seven Hollywood titles internationally that we can't play domestically because of scheduling conflicts. We have another five or seven titles that are local-language movies http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/imaxs-greg-foster-gravitys-appeal-653281 The large-format exhibitor, once relegated to museums, is responsible for more than 15 percent of Gravity's gross, with moviegoers shelling out $20 or more a head in big cities. The Toronto-based, 550-employee company has seen its revenue balloon from $102.7 million in 2008 to $284.3 million in 2012 thanks in large part to Hollywood tentpoles, while its stock has rocketed from $3.35 a share in early November 2008 to around $30 today. Imax's global creative czar is Greg Foster, 51, whom Imax Corp. CEO Rich Gelfond promoted earlier this year to CEO of Imax Entertainment in recognition of Foster's leadership in building the company's commercial slate and establishing relationships with studios. Foster, who spent 15 years at MGM before joining Imax in 2001, also oversees the documentaries financed and produced by Imax. The distributor will release a total of 40 films this year. Tentpoles can see an enormous boost from their Imax runs; it's not uncommon to add $70 million or more to their bottom line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackspider Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 50m for the day would probably be around the tickets sold than New Moon considering 4 years of inflation and IMAX, maybe even less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 LOL what? explain I was joking. Why? Because Jennifer Lawrence is amazing. RDJ all ready has Avengers. Can't Jennifer Lawrence win this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyGossamer Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 I'm sure this doesn't mean much, but of all the Thursday sneaks and/or midnight screenings I've attended, Catching Fire had the least diverse demographic. Essentially the entire audience was 18 to 25 and white. I always go to the same theater. That's NEVER the case. To compare, Furious 6 and Avengers had the most diverse in terms spanning age, race, etc... Even when I happened to catch Twilight at midnight with my girlfriend years and years ago, the age range was wider and more apparent diversity throughout the audience. It was odd. Packed house though. Plenty of gasping and the clapping as the credits rolled. Viewers seemed very pleased. Awesome start. My prediction was $181M OW... Now, I'm thinking just under $165M. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Yeah no Doubt THG be popular with the white people. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 I was joking. Because Jennifer Lawrence is amazing. RDJ all ready has Avengers. Can't Jennifer Lawrence win this. She is amazing. I love her. And Jennifer may win this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Yeah no Doubt THG be popular with the white people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 She is amazing. I love her. And Jennifer may win this. If not this year next year she should win. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babz06 Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Looking like the 160-165m prediction is on target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Yeah no Doubt THG be popular with the white people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 No joke Red I live in a 50% South Asian Dominated town. My sister and I went to Watch THG and it was like 80% white people 15-40. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyGossamer Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Given the diversity in the neighborhood I live, I just had yet to see anything like that. I was surprised by it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htall90 Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 I'm black as you may of guessed and my black mates barely know what hunger games is lol! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitik Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 You would think. When studios first started including even just 10:00 showings in the "midnight" numbers, I assumed we'd have tons of films breaking the midnight/OD records. But the extra showtimes don't really seem to have made any difference. Even BD2, as the only Twilight with early shows, didn't do noticeably better than Eclipse or BD1, which were "real" midnight openings. Right. 8pm shows are clearly not really adding anything to "midnight" records. The numbers seem to back this up. And while I'm all in favor of separating Thursday previews from Fridays, that's clearly not going to happen. At least all movies going forward will be in the same boat. More or less. It's also worth pointing out that not all 8pm previews are created equally. For a movie like Breaking Dawn Part 2, my local 16-screen theater stopped showing every other movie around 6 or 7, and had every single screen showing BD2 at some point starting between 8 and 9 o'clock. For Catching Fire, they kept most other movies playing, and only had 1 or 2 8 o'clock showings, followed, by a 9, a 10, etc. They only opened up the other screens to CF later that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 That may explain why my cousins and friends are not that excited for this, But my sister's white work friends are going berserk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitik Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 I'm sure this doesn't mean much, but of all the Thursday sneaks and/or midnight screenings I've attended, Catching Fire had the least diverse demographic. Essentially the entire audience was 18 to 25 and white. I always go to the same theater. That's NEVER the case. To compare, Furious 6 and Avengers had the most diverse in terms spanning age, race, etc... The Fast & Furious movies definitely appeal to a diverse audience. The Transformers movies attract an incredibly diverse crowd too (at least racially, but maybe not for gender). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctis Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Katniss is white trash. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htall90 Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Yeh fast and furious and transformers are very racially diverse so are recently in my experience superhero movies especially marvel ones. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 (edited) You can't make that comparison though, because Twilight was making $13M by its 3rd weekend. It was a much smaller film than THG. But it ended up with a 2.77 multiplier and THG ended with a 2.67, so it's just inaccurate to say the first Twilight "dropped like a rock". If that's your criteria, then THG dropped even harder. Fact is both films had surprisingly strong legs.Now it just remains to be seen if CF will follow other sequels and be drastically more frontloaded, but I think most agree there's virtually no chance its legs are as bad as the Twilight sequels.Come on, THG opened to double what twilight opened to and had better drops for its first 4 weeks. It may have had a worse multiplier but we all know films opening as high as THG all averagely have lower IM's. Twilights late legs came around Christmas time where all films benefit from soft drops so it's pretty obvious that given the circumstances, THG had much better legs than Twilight. Fact is, it dropped like a rock to small figures and cruised along there with the help of Christmas holidays. Those late legs would have been nonexistent had it been released the same time as THG.Also the fact that Twilight was only making 13M buy it's 3rd weekend only makes THG drops all the more impressive. Edited November 22, 2013 by Jessie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
