JonathanLB Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I would be curious if anyone has a list of movies with that similarly weird trend that Titanic managed to accomplish. The ones that come to mind are Home Alone, The Sixth Sense, and Avatar, in the modern era I mean. I'm sure it was very, very common before when movies played for 6 months that they'd make similar weekend totals if they were big blockbuster hits. I was just thinking in the post-1985 or 1990 box office, I had never seen anything like Titanic. I was too young when Home Alone came out to know anything about the box office. It was only recently I was looking back and in complete awe of that movie's run, too. Like highest weekend was its 8th or something? Very strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP1025 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 So a bit lower than estimates. Guessing the storms did have an impact. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 1 minute ago, Rth said: Sun looking 43-45 A bit lower than some were expecting, looks like your $1.1b is toast movie man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spizzer Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 1 minute ago, Rth said: Sun looking 43-45 Steep. So ~150M for the weekend. Looking at high 20s for Monday I'd expect. Down 35%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTF Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 1 minute ago, Rth said: Sun looking 43-45 Whoa, what happened here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 4 minutes ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said: I don't love TITANIC quite as much as many here, but I like it quite a bit, and it was amazing to follow its box-office run... and thrilling, because for the first time in my life, a movie was breaking every box-office trend I knew about. As it stayed basically flat from weekend to weekend, I realized its end result was unquantifiable, because it's legs were so remarkable you couldn't easily pin a final number on it. I'm a huge Cameron fan too, so it was immensely satisfying to see it sweep the Oscars that year. Titanic's success is more unbelievable due to the fact it was written off as a flop due to its $200m budget. I imagine everyone was expecting Tomorrow Never Dies to be the winner of that Christmas. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orestes Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Just now, FTF said: Whoa, what happened here? Bad weather probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 1 minute ago, KP1025 said: So a bit lower than estimates. Guessing the storms did have an impact. Or it's finally starting to burn off demand after some amazing holds over the first week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonenash Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Guys if you want to have fun for 5mn do this: click here: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=starwars7.htm then press control on your keyboard and mouse up to extend the numbers a bit. Don't talk and enjoy:) xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Watched a 2nd time. Yeah way better. It's gets quotable and fun now. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jandrew Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I know Baumer and others will probably give me a lecture, but its hard for me to appreciate Titantic pre-iceburg hit. That movie is just sooo longgg and its sooo much dialouge and fancy dinners and expostion of the ship. But once they hit that iceberg, boy does that movie get going. The pre-iceberg scenes arent bad, just too wordy for my tastes, but overall still a great movie. ps still cant believe they away with the full frontal. Cameron. His power. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark 33Legend of the Sith Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I agree. TFA gets better on multiple viewings. That first time you are watching something you are anticipating greatly it's hard to absorb everything. 2nd and 3rd time seeing it was amazing. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriggerMike Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Damn... was really hoping for 50M for Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#ED Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Still early. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jandrew Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Is it true instead of 3hrs 15 minutes, they said 2hrs 75 minutes to make it look shorter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 9 minutes ago, Jonwo said: Titanic's success is more unbelievable due to the fact it was written off as a flop due to its $200m budget. I imagine everyone was expecting Tomorrow Never Dies to be the winner of that Christmas. Plus it had been pushed back from a summer release. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I wanna say the weather but looks like, as others said, it just couldn't keep following Avatar's drops (avatar dropped 14,2% 2nd Sunday from Saturday). Looks like we're headed for -22%, around that. We'll see on Monday! It's still early though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 BLAME THE WEATHER! Gogogogo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark 33Legend of the Sith Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 2 minutes ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said: Plus it had been pushed back from a summer release. Also, I believe they were just trying to salvage as much of the budget as they could. It was already dubbed a disaster for the raising costs and pushing back the release date. It was the most expensive movie ever made at the time. Many left it for dead, and then it absolutely took pop culture by storm when it was released. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 (edited) 14 minutes ago, FTF said: Whoa, what happened here? The weather is really bad in the central part of the country. Maybe this will help the numbers later this week, kinda like the snow storm that deflated Avatar's opening Saturday. Edited December 28, 2015 by redfirebird2008 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
