Star Wars The Force Awakens: Opening Weekend | Actuals In 1st Post | $247,966,675 | The Force Awoke... and it's not sleeping anytime soon | 119, 68, 60

[Dementeleus]

2 minutes ago, babz06 said:

I doubt the Christmas films will put a dent into Star Wars but the January films will be much more competitive: The Hateful Eight, The Revenant,  Ride Along 2, and Kung Fu Panda 3 to name a few.  This is why Avatar-like holds are unrealistic. Avatar only had to contend with a Denzel Washington film and some horror flicks. It only really started losing steam towards the end of February/ early March. 

 

But it doesn't need AVATAR holds to hit a billion. It just needs to hold reasonably well for a big Christmas release. FOTR, TTT, KING KONG, that sort of thing.

[darthdevidem01]

5 minutes ago, spizzer said:

 

Doubt it.  2D inflation alone would put that Monday at high 30Ms, then add in 3D.  TFA Monday would have to be close to 50M to match it's attendance.

I see so it's unlikely! Damn though that was a fab monday then!

[AndyLL]

3 minutes ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said:

 

But it doesn't need AVATAR holds to hit a billion. It just needs to hold reasonably well for a big Christmas release. FOTR, TTT, KING KONG, that sort of thing.

 

4.03274589668105

[DAJK]

3 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Domestic or WW?

 

(If domestic than never)

Worldwide

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Just now, Darth AndyLL said:

 

4.03274589668105

Approximately

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/biggestgaps.htm?page=all&p=.htm

 

Another random record for TFA. Obliterates the weekend gap record.

Edited December 21, 2015 by Jayhawk the Hutt

[ChiSoxRox]

 

exactly per Wolfram Alpha

[mikeymichael]

I need a TFA vs. Avatar BOM Showdown STAT

[23IsEverywhere]

TFA as of the end of the weekend is above:

Day 11 of Avatar

Day 34 of Titanic

Day 18 of The Phantom Menace

TFA's domestic total

[TalismanRing]

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	BV	$247,966,675	-	4,134	-	$59,982	$247,966,675	-	1
2	N	Alvin and the Chipmunks The Road Chip	Fox	$14,287,159	-	3,653	-	$3,911	$14,287,159	-	1
3	N	Sisters	Uni.	$13,922,855	-	2,962	-	$4,700	$13,922,855	$30	1
4	1	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	LGF	$5,892,683	-48.4%	2,653	-998	$2,221	$254,481,457	$160	5
5	4	Creed	WB (NL)	$5,013,055	-50.5%	2,433	-1,069	$2,060	$87,828,128	$35	4
6	3	The Good Dinosaur	BV	$4,350,285	-57.8%	2,755	-851	$1,579	$96,664,353	-	4
7	5	Krampus	Uni.	$4,114,805	-51.1%	2,371	-548	$1,735	$35,145,460	$15	3
8	2	In the Heart of the Sea	WB	$3,484,270	-68.5%	3,103	-	$1,123	$18,619,365	-	2
9	N	Dilwale	UTV	$1,920,074	-	268	-	$7,164	$2,029,194	-	1
10	N	Bajirao Mastani	Eros	$1,741,037	-	304	-	$5,727	$1,741,037	-	1
11	7	Spectre	Sony	$1,433,957	-64.6%	1,225	-1,415	$1,171	$193,910,089	$245	7
12	9	Spotlight	ORF	$1,425,193	-43.2%	825	-264	$1,728	$22,803,219	-	7
13	10	Brooklyn	FoxS	$1,176,593	-41.0%	614	-333	$1,916	$16,495,006	-	7
14	6	The Night Before	Sony	$1,152,034	-72.1%	1,235	-1,439	$933	$41,462,098	$25	5
15	22	The Danish Girl	Focus	$547,434	+108.0%	81	+57	$6,758	$1,335,067	-	4
16	8	The Peanuts Movie	Fox	$538,447	-80.0%	771	-1,882	$698	$126,323,036	$99	7
17	11	The Martian	Fox	$450,010	-69.1%	493	-548	$913	$223,879,433	$108	12
18	14	Trumbo (2015)	BST	$411,895	-50.7%	273	-281	$1,509	$6,270,123	-	7
19	15	The Big Short	Par.	$378,285	-46.4%	8	-	$47,286	$1,319,689	$28	2
20	12	Love the Coopers	LGF	$299,290	-78.2%	593	-1,017	$505	$25,475,491	$17	6
21	N	Mojin: The Lost Legend	WGUSA	$279,974	-	22	-	$12,726	$279,974	$37	1
22	31	Youth	FoxS	$241,078	+125.8%	61	+44	$3,952	$510,400	-	3
23	18	Carol	Wein.	$231,137	-31.6%	16	-	$14,446	$1,627,965	-	5
24	16	Bridge of Spies	BV	$226,735	-62.5%	258	-282	$879	$69,946,389	$40	10
25	28	Hotel Transylvania 2	Sony	$196,557	+40.1%	230	+17	$855	$167,803,439	$80	13
26	24	Goosebumps	Sony	$188,378	-14.8%	262	-99	$719	$78,585	$58	10
27	21	Room	A24	$180,192	-31.9%	171	-27	$1,054	$4,542,056	-	10
28	13	The Secret in their Eyes (2015)	STX	$136,180	-88.9%	223	-1,438	$611	$19,916,854	-	5
29	23	Macbeth (2015)	Wein.	$132,542	-48.4%	97	-11	$1,366	$649,914	-	3
30	25	The Intern	WB	$130,957	-35.0%	232	-69	$564	$75,274,748	$35	13
31	20	Legend	Uni.	$129,585	-60.2%	85	-22	$1,525	$1,715,114	-	5
32	17	Chi-Raq	RAtt.	$119,819	-79.2%	76	-209	$1,577	$2,431,364	-	3
33	27	Sicario	LGF	$90,236	-46.8%	134	-44	$673	$46,615,767	$30	14
34	30	Pan	WB	$49,064	-54.3%	153	-49	$321	$34,964,818	$150	11
35	34	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	Fox	$45,586	-47.1%	110	-53	$414	$81,537,765	$61	14
36	33	The Last Witch Hunter	LG/S	$39,729	-55.3%	94	-50	$423	$27,314,227	$90	9
37	N	Son of Saul	SPC	$37,930	-	3	-	$12,643	$37,930	-	1
38	32	Suffragette	Focus	$30,299	-69.0%	75	-91	$404	$4,612,137	-	9
39	37	Hitchcock/Truffaut	Cohen	$25,992	-46.8%	23	+5	$1,130	$160,814	-	3
40	46	Peggy Guggenheim Art Addict	SD	$18,547	+4.6%	18	-1	$1,030	$343,302	-	7
41	29	The 33	WB	$18,176	-84.9%	55	-178	$330	$11,936,302	-	6
42	42	Janis: Little Girl Blue	FR	$16,564	-47.9%	20	-6	$828	$195,157	-	4
43	53	Hubble 3D	WB	$14,636	+44.0%	8	-	$1,830	$50,733,769	-	278
44	26	Victor Frankenstein	Fox	$14,100	-93.0%	42	-536	$336	$5,761,401	-	4
45	N	The Himalayas	CJ	$13,387	-	3	-	$4,462	$13,387	-	1
46	36	Woodlawn	PFR	$13,366	-74.7%	47	-110	$284	$14,354,788	-	10
47	57	Theeb	FM	$11,631	+36.7%	14	-1	$831	$152,571	-	7
48	43	Heart of a Dog	Abr.	$11,591	-61.7%	13	-6	$892	$292,395	-	9
49	52	Mustang	Cohen	$10,387	-9.3%	3	-	$3,462	$115,030	-	5
50	49	The Assassin	WGUSA	$9,875	-26.0%	7	-2	$1,411	$632,542	-	10
51	19	The Letters	Free	$9,130	-97.2%	16	-763	$571	$1,612,130	-	3
52	48	Truth	SPC	$8,454	-44.1%	10	-11	$845	$2,508,688	-	10
53	N	Pierrot le fou (2015 re-issue)	Rialto	$7,922	-	1	-	$7,922	$7,922	-	1
54	72	Entertainment	Magn.	$6,919	+243.5%	3	-4	$2,306	$39,460	-	6
55	55	Labyrinth of Lies	SPC	$6,748	-23.2%	6	-6	$1,125	$748,416	-	12
56	40	The Priests	CJ	$4,617	-86.3%	6	-7	$770	$180,522	-	4
57	63	The End of the Tour	A24	$3,688	-12.6%	3	-2	$1,229	$3,000,487	-	21
58	N	The Winding Stream	Argo.	$3,660	-	3	-	$1,220	$5,588	-	1
59	58	Burnt	Wein.	$3,410	-57.6%	10	-17	$341	$13,591,193	$20	8
60	59	James White	TFA	$3,090	-53.0%	6	-4	$515	$101,368	-	6
61	61	Grandma (2015)	SPC	$3,051	-49.5%	10	-2	$305	$6,917,571	$0.6	18
62	N	Noma My Perfect Storm	Magn.	$2,987	-	4	-	$747	$2,987	-	1
63	76	Censored Voices	MBox	$2,672	+111.9%	3	+2	$891	$28,231	-	5
64	54	Boy and the World	GK	$2,557	-74.6%	1	-1	$2,557	$15,991	-	2
65	70	Under the Sea 3D	WB	$2,498	+5.4%	8	+4	$312	$34,790,589	-	334
66	-	Dreams Rewired	Icar.	$2,233	-	3	-	$744	$3,240	-	6
67	56	Big Stone Gap	PH	$1,725	-80.0%	3	-9	$575	$1,007,160	-	11
68	38	A Royal Night Out	ADC	$1,637	-95.9%	3	-98	$546	$226,020	-	3
69	68	Journey to the South Pacific	Imax	$1,409	-43.8%	5	-	$282	$7,084,357	-	85
70	78	Amy	A24	$934	-21.0%	2	-1	$467	$8,406,687	-	25
71	75	Flowers	MBox	$772	-50.1%	2	-2	$386	$48,947	-	8
72	64	Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words	Rialto	$747	-79.2%	2	+1	$374	$42,381	-	6
73	80	Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (IMAX)	WB	$597	-34.1%	6	+1	$100	$10,466,778	-	90
74	66	The Man in 3B	Free	$443	-85.5%	1	-5	$443	$291,145	-	7
75	77	The World of Kanako	Drft.	$310	-73.9%	1	-6	$310	$12,189	-	3
76	N	The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun	Magn.	$297	-	2	-	$149	$297	-	1
77	85	To the Arctic (IMAX)	WB	$100	-80.5%	2	-	$50	$14,401,209	-	167
TOTAL (77 MOVIES):				$313,252,873	+304.6%	33,431	-3,869	$9,370

[CJohn]

MONDAY MONDAY MONDAY! More records are gonna fall.

[superduperm]

I know I'm thinking way ahead here, but is the third weekend record in play? That's something Avatar has had to its name for quite awhile...

[terrestrial]

7 minutes ago, Jayhawk the Hutt said:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/biggestgaps.htm?page=all&p=.htm

 

Another random record for TFA. Obliterates the weekend gap record.

 

Moneywise = yes, but not percentage-wise.

But I see your example as a true win, the titles of the percentage difference were not released time-near enough IMHO to really make sense (4 weeks difference)

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

2 minutes ago, superduperm said:

I know I'm thinking way ahead here, but is the third weekend record in play? That's something Avatar has had to its name for quite awhile...

Yes. Christmas weekend should actually have a harsher drop % wise than New Years weekend, because of previews. Look for an <40% drop 3rd weekend. It may even obliterate the 3rd weekend record.

Edited December 21, 2015 by Jayhawk the Hutt

[theStun]

Nothing I repeat nothing will beat this OW. It will stand for the next 6-7 years easily

[Ozymandias]

37 minutes ago, Hatebox said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOL

[B J]

Just now, terrestrial said:

 

Moneywise = yes, but not percentage-wise.

But I see your example as a true win, the titles of the percentage difference were not released time-near enough IMHO to really make sense (4 weeks difference)

percentage wise, outside of the first week of may, it is insane, best ever actually.

[The Panda]

So 

119m

68m

60m

 

My overly optimistic calculations

Mon: 40.2m (-33%)

Tue: 44.2m (+10%)

Wed: 36.7m (-17%)

Thu: 31.2m (-15%)

400m 1st week total

 

Fri: 64m (+105%)

Sat: 51.2m (-20%)

Sun: 44.5m (-13%)

159.7m 2nd Weekend (-35.5%)

559.9m 10 Day total

 

Mon: 27.6m (-38%)

Tue: 32.6m (+18%)

Wed: 27.1m (-17%)

Thu: 20.3m (-25%)

667.5m 2 Week Total, 2015 Total

 

Fri: 45.7m (+125%)

Sat: 41.1m (-10%)

Sun: 32.9m (-20%)

119.7m 3rd Weekend

787.2m

 

Over Avatar in three weeks 

[DAJK]

1 minute ago, The Panda Menace said:

So 

119m

68m

60m

 

My overly optimistic calculations

Mon: 40.2m (-33%)

Tue: 44.2m (+10%)

Wed: 36.7m (-17%)

Thu: 31.2m (-15%)

400m 1st week total

 

Fri: 64m (+105%)

Sat: 51.2m (-20%)

Sun: 44.5m (-13%)

159.7m 2nd Weekend (-35.5%)

559.9m 10 Day total

 

Mon: 27.6m (-38%)

Tue: 32.6m (+18%)

Wed: 27.1m (-17%)

Thu: 20.3m (-25%)

667.5m 2 Week Total, 2015 Total

 

Fri: 45.7m (+125%)

Sat: 41.1m (-10%)

Sun: 32.9m (-20%)

119.7m 3rd Weekend

787.2m

 

Over Avatar in three weeks 

COME TO PAPA

[grey ghost]

31 minutes ago, DAJK said:

We did this after JW and I remember the highest anyone went on TFA was "maybe"

 

BvS - $156M no

CW - $155M no

Rogue One - $168M no

Episode 8 - $200+ (maybe but a stretch)

Avatar 2 - $116M no

GOTG 2 - $135M no

Infinity War 1 - $150M nope

Infinity War 2 - $148M nope

JW2 - $172M nah

 

Dont see it happening in the foreseeable future

 

 

 

Infinity War 2 won't hit 248 m but 148 m is too low.