#ED Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 Just now, K1Rey said: I'm giving this ten more minutes and then I"m leaving........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 1 minute ago, Jayhawk the Hutt said: I would say good riddance, but I'm an awful person. I want people to rag on him for eternity for his doubling, tripling, etc. down on one of the dumbest predictions I've seen. His reasoning was next level stupid and completely proven wrong. You guys know I'm critical but even I say that's a bit harsh. It's a prediction for a movie, chill out. There are still plenty of crazy predictions to the upside percolating on here as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 (edited) 58 minutes ago, DarthOpeningGross said: I don't agree, however, with the hindsight perspective that $4B was a "bad" or "too low" sale price from Lucas' perspective. When Lucas sold the company, there hadn't been a SW movie in 10 years, and the prequels had a left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. Lucas neither had the marketing savvy or power of Disney, nor was there any guarantee that Lucasfilm on its own would get the right director, the right script, and put together the right marketing plan in the way that the monolith-that-is-Disney could -- and did. Had Lucas retained the intellectual property and crafted together another Phantom Menace based on Lucas' story outlines (which were jettisoned by Disney), or gotten a hack director, it may well have driven a lot of the value out of the SW franchise, and we might be lamenting how stupid he was to not take $4B (which was at the end of the road more like a $6B deal for him). The prequels didn't leave a bad taste in everyone's mouths. TPM and AOTC were both huge hits with the public and ROTS even won over many critics and fans who didn't care for the first two. It's revisionist history to claim that they were hated by everyone or devalued the SW brand. TFA wouldn't have opened as high as it did if the prequels hadn't grown the audience for the franchise. And Lucas never intended to write the script or direct TFA even before the sale, so there was no way it would have been another TPM, quality-wise. Probably the only difference if it had been made under his watch instead of Disney and KK's would be that it wouldn't have played the nostalgia card so heavily. Edited December 21, 2015 by Darth Homer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart360 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 1 minute ago, CJ Ren said: It always hurts and you know it. Usually the Hobbit movies only dropped online after the New Year. This was too soon for Star Wars. As soon as word gets on the street, the movie is fucked. Dude its not a dvd screener, its a bad cam copy with terrible sound. The vast majority of people pirate things they have no intention of paying for anyway. Ignore Hollywoods scare mongering. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Just now, stuart360 said: Dude its not a dvd screener, its a bad cam copy with terrible sound. The vast majority of people pirate things they have no intention of paying for anyway. Ignore Hollywoods scare mongering. Oh, it is a Cam? Fuck that then lol. Nobody gives a shit about those. Every movie has a Cam online on the weekend of release. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Skywalker Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 3 minutes ago, stuart360 said: I like Batman but the Dark Knight films were huge because it was a combination of Batman and Lord Nolan. Now Nolan is gone, i can imagine a lot of Nolanites moving on from Batman. Man of Steel was just average. 150mil will be a good opening for BVS. It won't be this way. 150 is definitely good. But 170+ is where it will land, similar to IM3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 5 minutes ago, CJ Ren said: Oh fuck. This is gonna hurt it. No way, there are hundreds of screeners out there on torrents. Who cares about leaking films anymore? It happens everyday. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackspider Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 The pirated copy won't affect it. This is an event that people want to experience and that is heavily diminished watching it on a monitor. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stuart360 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 1 minute ago, CJ Ren said: Oh, it is a Cam? Fuck that then lol. Nobody gives a shit about those. Every movie has a Cam online on the weekend of release. Exactly. There is a chance a dvd screener will come soon as its award season. I think it would of been posted already by the pirates though if they had it. Disney probably hasn't sent out screeners because of that. Creed, Hateful 8, The Revenant, Joy, Legend, Room, The Heart of the Sea, and a few other screeners are already online with more to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Terrific Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 This isn't the actuals thread you're looking for. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUS 2020 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Forum crash #9 due any second It's like Indian* electricity *Gandhi not Geronimo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Eagerly anticipating actuals... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart360 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 3 minutes ago, GiantCALBears said: No way, there are hundreds of screeners out there on torrents. Who cares about leaking films anymore? It happens everyday. It happens for EVERY film. AVATAR had a dvd screener out at the end of its first week and it was the most pirated film of all time, it still went on to become the biggest film of all time though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackspider Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Didn't Tele say it's gonna be 247.9m? Or is there still hope for 250m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B J Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 the pirated copy is probably some shitty cam'ed version anyway, and anyone that wants to watch star wars in shitty cam quality is nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 If you think BvS OW over SW OW is crazy, just wait till my FB OS > TFA OS thread. Trimis de pe al meu SM-J100H folosind Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerfy01 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 the wait is grating -.- I don't remember it taking this long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Only added for SW 7 details Top 10 New Zealand Spoiler Weekend New Zealand Chart for December 18th, 2015 (USD) ← Previous Chart Chart Index Movie Genre Gross Change Thtrs. Per Thtr. Total Gross Days 1 new Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens Adventure $3,032,246 203 $14,937 $3,032,246 4 2 new Dilwale Romantic Comedy $172,749 23 $7,511 $172,749 3 3 (4) Hotel Transylvania 2 Comedy $93,226 +3% 93 $1,002 $721,294 52 4 (1) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Thriller/Suspense $90,917 -59% 126 $722 $3,225,016 31 5 (2) Spectre Action $70,595 -65% 72 $980 $3,829,282 38 6 (3) Goosebumps Horror $63,035 -31% 83 $759 $384,102 17 7 new Bajirao Mastani Drama $39,842 14 $2,846 $39,842 3 8 new Mojin: The Lost Legend Adventure $22,939 4 $5,735 $22,939 3 9 (8) Dressmaker, The (1) Drama $20,449 -47% 49 $417 $1,269,448 52 10 (5) In the Heart of the Sea Adventure $20,107 -73% 94 $214 $265,573 17 Top 10 Australia Spoiler Weekend Australia Chart for December 18th, 2015 (USD) ← Previous Chart Chart Index Movie Genre Gross Change Thtrs. Per Thtr. Total Gross Days 1 new Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens Adventure $19,661,535 941 $20,894 $19,661,535 4 2 (3) Hotel Transylvania 2 Comedy $924,701 -8% 290 $3,189 $6,248,132 52 3 (1) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Thriller/Suspense $637,112 -56% 282 $2,259 $19,677,661 31 4 (2) Spectre Action $472,298 -60% 242 $1,952 $23,770,511 38 5 new Dilwale Romantic Comedy $356,065 39 $9,130 $356,065 3 6 (4) Creed Drama $343,862 -56% 201 $1,711 $4,395,409 24 7 (7) Dressmaker, The (1) Drama $239,738 -42% 180 $1,332 $12,512,831 52 8 new Bajirao Mastani Drama $220,189 29 $7,593 $220,189 3 9 new The Good Dinosaur Adventure $214,175 187 $1,145 $214,175 3 10 (5) The Night Before Comedy $189,773 -61% 149 $1,274 $1,734,626 17 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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