Star Wars Tuesday - 37.3M (Tele/baumer bet for Wednesday drop is on page 24...much to learn one of them still has)

[RamblinRed]

7 minutes ago, GiantCALBears said:

Lol B get out of here w/ your discount Tuesday, it's holiday pricing right now for most theater chains. Plus Imax/3D share is obviously much larger for TFA so you are wrong IMO. It didn't obviously sell more tickets.

I'll leave it to smarter people than I to decide ticket totals.

I will say that one of my colleagues went with her whole family last night to see TFA and they got discount Tuesday pricing for it. Don't know how widespread it was, but at least some chains were doing it.

 

[Deep Wang]

12 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Well yeah... But that movie opened three times higher than we have ever seen a movie open in December. Hobbit 1 multi is my current expectation. 

 

Which would put Star Wars around $890m!

is another $110m really that hard to imagine?  Especially with word of mouth out of this galaxy?

[Shaldun]

12 minutes ago, CJ Ren said:

It was a record from Amazing Spider-Man. Even Sony is happy it was taken away. In that way, nobody remembers it exists 

Yeah that way they don't have to reboot the record 

 

9 minutes ago, Sagemode87 said:

Yeah, let's just give this undeserving movie every single record out there lol. 

It deserves it more than Twilight at least

[K1stpierre]

15 minutes ago, DarthArachnid!™ said:

 

Why you want to make me cry, Kelz???? 

 

Cause it was a bad movie.......

[FilmBuff]

Avacrap doesn't deserve to be the highest grossing movie of all time.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Well, if we're saying it's gonna get to $1B, it does have to have some pretty good late legs, unless it goes absolutely insane next week and New Years weekend. If it's around $700m by the end of New Years weekend, it probably still has an uphill climb to $1B. But it would certainly still have a chance.

[GiantCALBears]

Just now, RamblinRed said:

I'll leave it to smarter people than I to decide ticket totals.

I will say that one of my colleagues went with her whole family last night to see TFA and they got discount Tuesday pricing for it. Don't know how widespread it was, but at least some chains were doing it.

 

First of all not every chain does it, I think that's sort of a misconception on here. 2nd, big holiday releases such as SW in their first week are considered special engagements so that excludes it from the deal in others. That's why I'm minimizing the impact it had & the larger 3d/IMAX share for TFA over TASM has to be taken into account as well.

[Dark 33Legend of the Sith]

Going for my second viewing now. Nothing better than going to STAR WARS during the middle of a work day at 12:30. Just awesome.

 

Also, you're welcome @Baumer Fett for the help.

[FlashMaster659]

#StarWars tops current @Fandango advance sales. New pics #Concussion & #PointBreak don't even rank in Top5.

 

From Gitesh.

[baumer]

Get out of here with discount Tuesday prices? So in other words just leave out an important variable so that your argument has semblance of truth to it? Sure giantcalbears lol.

[MovieMan89]

1 minute ago, Jayhawk the Hutt said:

Well, if we're saying it's gonna get to $1B, it does have to have some pretty good late legs, unless it goes absolutely insane next week and New Years weekend. 

 

TFA isn't getting to $1b because of some spectacular late legs. I never said that. 

[goldenstate5]

Hey as long as it beats Avatar I won't be mad if it misses a billion.

 

That said... man I hope this film reaches that billion

[RamblinRed]

This from Fandango

 

LOS ANGELES - December 23, 2015 - "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is powering up for a second historic weekend at the top of Fandango's Fanticipation movie buzz indicator with a rare 100 out of 100 points. The top Fanticipation ranking has only appeared four times previously since Fandango started ranking films in 2013, and has never appeared in back-to-back weeks for the same movie.

Christmas Day 2015 also promises to be a day for the record books, as Friday's sales are on track to far outpace sales for previous Christmas Days at the same point in the Fandango sales cycle. Fandango's previous best-selling Christmas was in 2012, when "Les Miserables, "Django Unchained" and other hits were released. 

 

About Fanticipation 
Known for having its finger on the pulse of moviegoers, Fandango's movie buzz indicator, Fanticipation, provides statistical insight into the movies fans are planning to see in a given weekend. Fanticipation scores (based on a 1 to 100-point scale) are calculated via an algorithm of Fandango's advance ticket sales, website and mobile traffic, and social media engagement. Fanticipation is not intended as a forecast of the weekend box office; it is a snapshot of movie fan sentiment. Fandango is the nation's leading digital destination for moviegoers and fans with more than 42 million unique visitors per month.*

 

[SoSaysI]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

We get it, you don't like the movie.

I think literally every one of his posts has been him hating on TFA.

[GiantCALBears]

1 minute ago, Baumer Fett said:

Get out of here with discount Tuesday prices? So in other words just leave out an important variable so that your argument has semblance of truth to it? Sure giantcalbears lol.

 

It that's part of your premise in why you are predicting such a ridiculous hold today then Tele is going to win the bet IMO.

[baumer]

Ok. Im not getting into ticket sales again. Believe whatever u want. Dollars wise its tops.if u want to bring up some other b.s. go for it. For all we know Titanic has the highest ticket sales for a tuesday or maybe Doctor Zhivago....no way to know for sure (unless we take off and blow it from orbit). So what we do know unequivocally is that Star Wars has the Tuesday record. End of story.

[Ethan Hunt]

8 minutes ago, Darth Rallax said:

 

Which would put Star Wars around $890m!

is another $110m really that hard to imagine?  Especially with word of mouth out of this galaxy?

 

Its possible, but super unlikely IMO

[smerfy01]

3 minutes ago, FlashMaster659 said:

#StarWars tops current @Fandango advance sales. New pics #Concussion & #PointBreak don't even rank in Top5.

 

From Gitesh.

So is this the RIP Will Smith thread now?

 

[redfirebird2008]

44 minutes ago, ecstasy said:

So I guess Mendelson is just gonna ignore the fact that Jurassic World is not something new and is a sequel/reboot of a successful franchise.

 

Actually he complained a lot about JW as well. He is pretty much a curmudgeon with these big movies, but he has really showed his ass over the last week. 

[The Panda]

I'm wondering, we typically have a few Oscar December releasse that hit 100m.  

 

The three contenders are Hateful Eight, The Revenant, and The Big Short.

 

Concussion and Joy being failed contenders.

 

So of those three, which (if not all), will hit 100m?

 

I could see The Big Short legging its way there, i'd say it just needs to be over 10m this weekend (and play decently today and tomorrow).  It's apparently quite funny and is the type of Oscar film to pick up some legs similar to American Hustle or Wolf of Wall Street.

 

The Revenant should open well because of Leo, it just depends on how the GA receives the movie being torture porn.

 

The Hateful Eight might not actually get a BP nomination, so I might not be able to count it, but it's tracking well and I think 100m should be in store.