Weekend Estimates: The Hobbit - 73.6M | Frozen - 22.2M | Madea - 16M

[alisson23]

Win the domestic battle sure, but lose the worldwide war.

 

It's like when a NFL team beats a team in the regular season, but then gets its ass whooped by that team in the playoffs. 

You saying this I remember the tagline of Hunger Games:On March 23th The world will be watching

 

I thought one for the hobbit:In December the world will be sleeping

Even the hobbit earning more, nothing changes the fact that Catching Fire will be more profitable.

you want to appeal, I will appeal

[baumer]

For the win:

 

[K1stpierre]

Ah yes, the "who cares about making more money WW" argument, the argument quickly discarded when the film in question is making more money WW than another targeted foe.

[PDC1987]

DOM is the better crown than WW. More interesting.

Because your horse is winning the domestic race but not the global one.

 

Go ask a studio executive if the domestic box office is "more interesting" when most of these films are racking up international grosses far bigger than their domestic grosses.

[Impact]

How ironic-some defend films when they do better OS.

[baumer]

You saying this I remember the tagline of Hunger Games:On March 23th The world will be watching

 

I thought one for the hobbit:In December the world will be sleeping

Even the hobbit earning more, nothing changes the fact that Catching Fire will be more profitable.

you want to appeal, I will appeal

 

You're going to have to break that one down.  How is CF going to be more profitable with a gross of about 200 mill less WW and a budget of about 70 mill less. 

[4815162342]

You saying this I remember the tagline of Hunger Games:On March 23th The world will be watching

 

I thought one for the hobbit:In December the world will be sleeping

Even the hobbit earning more, nothing changes the fact that Catching Fire will be more profitable.

you want to appeal, I will appeal

 

In Studio Land, no film is profitable.

Edited December 15, 2013 by 4815162342

[Impact]

Well Lone Ranger did well in the southwest-flopped everywhere else :PNow for a interesting one-Movie 43 did well in Russia, when I said that someone did a good Smiernov impersonation and went "Well in Russia our spoofs make no sense"

[Mango]

I remember this gem-

 

I don't remember what it tasted like but my grandma got it for me a few times.

[Impact]

No such thing as a true bomb anymore either

[John Marston]

so far it looks like US and UK are the only countries where DOS will be significantly lower than AUJ (though UK could definitely go either way at this point)

[Fancyarcher]

No such thing as a true bomb anymore either

 

I'd say that's for up debate.

[alisson23]

Studios receive more money domestic than international, bitch*s 

[baumer]

Studios receive more money domestic than international, bitch*s 

 

But domestic is one market.  There are about 70-80 other markets out there.  And besides China, what market is really all that different than the US/Canada.

[Impact]

Not that true anymore

Depends on the movie of course-an American Civil War film wont do well OS, but a film about some war in Italy in 1600 wont do well here most likely.

[4815162342]

You saying this I remember the tagline of Hunger Games:On March 23th The world will be watching

 

And on March 23rd the world had a hard time watching, because the shaky cam was left on for the whole movie.

[druv10]

Studios receive more money domestic than international, bitch*s 

 

WW matters heck of a lot more to the bottom line than domestic.    

[filmnerdjamie]

[4815162342]

These Hunger Games fans, all WB films have their ire.

 

If ED wasn't being salty about this film for some unspoken reason, I'd suggest calling in the Nolanites against a mutual enemy.

[iceroll]

And on March 23rd the world had a hard time watching, because the shaky cam was left on for the whole movie.

I liked the shaky cam:

 

I feel like that kind of worked with the tone though.  Katniss' world was supposed to be very small and contained because that's all she ever knew.  The shakiness and closeup shots at District 12 kind of reminded me of documentary footage at 3rd world places like you see in those "adopt a child" or "trafficking awareness" ads.  It was very raw and under-produced compared to the footage at the Capitol, with wide sweeping shots of the skyline and zoomed out views of large buildings.