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[Lordmandeep]

For some reason the Canadian Box office never gets as big grosses.Films are always leggy here though...For example TA opened to 15.5 million weekend (biggest ever) and did 60 million (actually no one knows what it did lol, however it stayed flat on its 3rd weekend (which was a holiday weekend) so it much have broken past 50 million).Dh2 opened to 12.9 million and got 44 million.

[Robertron]

I still find it strange that its the 'North American' Box Office and not the individual markets themselves..Especially considering everyone goes on about HOLLYWOOD, which is the US..

[Rthmessiah]

For some reason the Canadian Box office never gets as big grosses.Films are always leggy here though...For example TA opened to 15.5 million weekend (biggest ever) and did 60 million (actually no one knows what it did lol, however it stayed flat on its 3rd weekend (which was a holiday weekend) so it much have broken past 50 million).Dh2 opened to 12.9 million and got 44 million.

TA was just over 60m

[Rthmessiah]

I'm not sure if the 48fps has anything to do with it, but I LOVE the Entertainment Quarter IMAX - I actually prefer it to the real IMAX (or maybe I just haven't seen the right movie in it yet)

VMAX has full lounge seats with your own arm rest on either side. At the EQ the seats are together and you share the same arm rest. You notice the difference when an overweight individual with a big bucket of popcorn sits next to you. There also isn't that big of a difference in screen size.

Imax wise prefer Real , Digital Imax tends to have a sharper image than regular cinema and quite often with bass the theatre does rumble at EQ, also if your not aware digital Imax runs two projectors simultaneouslyVmax screens are larger than EQ Imax several meters wider cant recall height

[Robertron]

Imax wise prefer Real , Digital Imax tends to have a sharper image than regular cinema and quite often with bass the theatre does rumble at EQ, also if your not aware digital Imax runs two projectors simultaneouslyVmax screens are larger than EQ Imax several meters wider cant recall height

Funny you say that - When I saw Avatar at EQ, the whole cinema would shake. Nothing has ever compared to it, although VMAX 1 (if that's the smaller one) at George St came close when I saw TKDR.

[Ball Lightning]

Our VMAX rumbled so hard you could feel it down the other end of the building for the TDKR trailer! It was insane!

[Fake]

How was the Friday and Saturday business?

[Ball Lightning]

Friday up slightly, then saturday fell about 10%. Not sure why, might be a localised effect.

[Robertron]

Sooo.. How'd we go Saturday ?

[JJ-8]

so unless RTH comes knocking, we won't see numbers until wednesday. though we might see something in the international report tomorrow...

[Rthmessiah]

Wkend Th1 looking like 11.8-12.4m, LM 4.9-5.5,WIR 3.8-4m

[Olive]

Is 50M, 30M, 25M POSSIBLE for them respectively.

[Ball Lightning]

LM more like $25, WiR more like $30 potentially

[Fake]

Fake, you expecting the hobbit to crash and burn then ? 10m to 11m weekend after a 5.9m OD would extremely to say the least underwelming. The Avengers managed 13m in april without the aid of holidays (the only holiday that weekend was on it's wednesday opening). The Hobbit enjoys full school holidays and one of the most lucrative times of the year. Even the extremely frontloaded Harry Potter which opened on the wednesday with 7m still managed 18m over the following 4 days for the weekend. 13m for me is bottom end here with 15m, 16m and even 17m if it finds some support are within range (I don't see the opening weekend record falling here.) under 11m would be to be blunt embarrasing for this film given it's opening day alone.

My guess wasn't so bad after all.

[Robertron]

Wkend Th1 looking like 11.8-12.4m, LM 4.9-5.5,WIR 3.8-4m

Ouch. If it does, it's JUST going to scrape by $12m.Disappointing after that OD.

[Robertron]

And those are fantastic results for Les Mis and WIR - Les Mis especially!!Should have a similar run to Sherlock 1.

[druv10]

What can we expect of LOP?

[Olive]

Hope legs will be great!

[Robertron]

Once The Hobbit and Skyfall are done TDK will be out of our all-time top 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JJ-8]

from the international report...The Hobbit made 18.6m USD (I think just over 18m is what that is equiv in AUD).So that should mean 5.9m OD and approx 12.1m OW. A little disappointing after the OD, but lets see where this can go from here... I still think that 45m is the base here but then i thought this would make 13m on the OW after that OD, so.... i'm not so sure about 50m though. possible but lets see how it plays out now. this week and weekend after are now very key...... (remember most of the country is on holidays... )for those interested in Les Mis... it made 8.3m USD so far... so the weekend should be around 6m AUD which is pretty strong i think. (though I'm not sure as the 8.3m USD includes boxing and previews.)

Edited December 31, 2012 by Jajang