Star Wars TFA 2nd Wknd Actual: 149.2M !!!

[POTUS 2020]

1 hour ago, KP1025 said:

It always seems to just miss a milestone, doesn't it. 

599 .5 for tuesday? 

Doooooom.

Nah it'll beat a milestone for a change tomorrow.  605m+

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, Baumer Fett said:

Theres no question TFA is the best movie of the year in my eyes.

Inside Out is better. Maybe. Still need to see TFA one more time before deciding which will hopefully be this weekend if not next.

[terrestrial]

1 minute ago, Poseidon said:

 

We are talking about sundays drop, though.

Ahh, I think Langer and me speak about the weekend drop (I do not

 

Sunday, too many reasons IMHO and not that important for now, 1-2 days for the US to normalize, CAN today holiday, still people on vacation (see Baumer's post for final actuals getting released 4 January), I'd wait a bit longer to see the new pattern

 

Beside:

The Sunday drop wasn't that atypical anyway

 

Sunday, December 27, 2015

TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 1 Star Wars 7 BV $43,145,665 -24% -29%  4,134  $10,437   $540,058,914 10 2 2 Daddy's Home Par. $9,901,745 -25% - 3,271 $3,027 $38,740,203 3 3 5 Sisters Uni. $4,368,950 -16% +6% 2,962 $1,475 $37,455,995 10 4 4 Alvin .... Road Chip Fox $4,289,258 -18% -3% 3,705 $1,158 $39,848,982 10 5 3 Joy Fox $4,146,098 -31% - 2,896 $1,432 $17,015,168 3 6 6 The Big Short Par. $2,907,123 -24% +2,123% 1,585 $1,834 $16,022,474 17 7 7 Concussion (2015) Sony $2,432,000 -36% - 2,841 $856 $10,500,000 3 8 8 Point Break (2015)  WB $2,365,000 -28% - 2,910 $813 $9,805,000 3 9 9 HG Mockingjay  2  LGF $1,704,000 -18% -8% 1,813 $940 $264,603,061 38 10 11 The Good Dinosaur BV $1,338,597 -9% -8% 2,134 $627 $105,350,933 33 11 12 The Hateful Eight Wein. $1,277,154 -10% - 100  $12,772 $4,610,676 3 12 10 Creed WB (NL) $1,195,000 -29% -23% 1,518 $787 $96,141,653 33 - - Krampus Uni. $531,440 -32% -59% 1,168 $455 $40,458,690 24

[tokila]

So after the long weekend have asked my co-workers what they thought of it. A few have yet to see it, but plan to too. All the ones I who have seen it want to or plan to see it again. All but one say it is now there favorite SW movie, one says you still cant beat the original(he saw ANH 7 times in the theater as a kid) but he loved it. I talk to maybe 10 co-workers about it. I would classify none of them as Star Wars fans in the sense they follow it or read book, most already liked the original movies. I have not gotten a chance to talk to the guy who is a big SW (does the comicon stuff, already planning a Disney World trip once they open all the SW stuff) I expect him to be the only one who mentions it maybe being too familiar, lol.

[terrestrial]

hey, the background just changed to the snowy one without me doing that!?

[K1stpierre]

2 minutes ago, tokila said:

So after the long weekend have asked my co-workers what they thought of it. A few have yet to see it, but plan to too. All the ones I who have seen it want to or plan to see it again. All but one say it is now there favorite SW movie, one says you still cant beat the original(he saw ANH 7 times in the theater as a kid) but he loved it. I talk to maybe 10 co-workers about it. I would classify none of them as Star Wars fans in the sense they follow it or read book, most already liked the original movies. I have not gotten a chance to talk to the guy who is a big SW (does the comicon stuff, already planning a Disney World trip once they open all the SW stuff) I expect him to be the only one who mentions it maybe being too familiar, lol.

 

I'm not sure where I'd rank this, it's def up there though below with ANH and ESB, but above ROTJ.

[Poseidon]

8 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

Ahh, I think Langer and me speak about the weekend drop (I do not

 

Sunday, too many reasons IMHO and not that important for now, 1-2 days for the US to normalize, CAN today holiday, still people on vacation (see Baumer's post for final actuals getting released 4 January), I'd wait a bit longer to see the new pattern

 

Beside:

The Sunday drop wasn't that atypical anyway

 

Sunday, December 27, 2015

TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 1 Star Wars 7 BV $43,145,665 -24% -29%  4,134  $10,437   $540,058,914 10 2 2 Daddy's Home Par. $9,901,745 -25% - 3,271 $3,027 $38,740,203 3 3 5 Sisters Uni. $4,368,950 -16% +6% 2,962 $1,475 $37,455,995 10 4 4 Alvin .... Road Chip Fox $4,289,258 -18% -3% 3,705 $1,158 $39,848,982 10 5 3 Joy Fox $4,146,098 -31% - 2,896 $1,432 $17,015,168 3 6 6 The Big Short Par. $2,907,123 -24% +2,123% 1,585 $1,834 $16,022,474 17 7 7 Concussion (2015) Sony $2,432,000 -36% - 2,841 $856 $10,500,000 3 8 8 Point Break (2015)  WB $2,365,000 -28% - 2,910 $813 $9,805,000 3 9 9 HG Mockingjay  2  LGF $1,704,000 -18% -8% 1,813 $940 $264,603,061 38 10 11 The Good Dinosaur BV $1,338,597 -9% -8% 2,134 $627 $105,350,933 33 11 12 The Hateful Eight Wein. $1,277,154 -10% - 100  $12,772 $4,610,676 3 12 10 Creed WB (NL) $1,195,000 -29% -23% 1,518 $787 $96,141,653 33 - - Krampus Uni. $531,440 -32% -59% 1,168 $455 $40,458,690 24

 

 

There was a bug in my calculation either way. Got confused by RTHs 29% drop on his daylies, not recognizing, it was the drop from last sunday.

 

But still, looking at the other movies and 2009, I can't see any major weather effects there, causin SW to drop 10% bigger than estimates and Avatar.

 

[e1828]

Cannot seem to edit my post, I had the wrong number (as it was based on the estimates).

 

should read (for Day 8):

 

Star Wars: The Force Awakens extends its lead over Jurassic World to over $114 million!

[Elessar]

Tele, TFA or Mad Max?

[langer]

30 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

I think he/she meant the opening weekend got $57m of the pre-view Thurday (17 December) added = blows up the weekend, bigger drops for the next weekend, but this weekend has no Thursday income added as it wasn't an OW for SW 7

 

That's exactly what HE meant.  although the super secret special Saturday previews are always a good laugh. 

[terrestrial]

3 minutes ago, Poseidon said:

 

 

There was a bug in my calculation either way. Got confused by RTHs 29% drop on his daylies, not recognizing, it was the drop from last sunday.

 

But still, looking at the other movies and 2009, I can't see any major weather effects there, causin SW to drop 10% bigger than estimates and Avatar.

 

Avatar started during a snow storm... = started under it's potential and at that time there were other pre-view start times and....

 

plus Sunday wasn't an estimate, it was - in opposite to Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, a prediction.

 

Big pre-sales = early estimates and predictions are out of whack, see last weekend's thread

 

= as said, many reasons

[langer]

1 minute ago, langer said:

 

That's exactly what HE meant.  although the super secret special Saturday previews are always a good laugh. 

 

Just realized I was talking about weekend drop and Poseidon was talking about daily drop.  Got it now.  Thanks Terres for pointing it out. 

[kayumanggi]

Box office has record year as few movies share the wealth https://t.co/4enQ5UBH2i pic.twitter.com/v6gZCyQE4D

— Variety (@Variety)

December 28, 2015

[baumer]

Im very close to ranking TFA above ESB now. I think its a perfect film. 

[kayumanggi]

Thanks to monster hits such as “Furious 7,” “Jurassic World,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” — all four of which will end up among the top seven highest-grossing films — ticket sales soared to record levels. For the first time in history, the domestic box office will hit $11 billion, but that hefty number was achieved on the back of a small collection of pictures.

 

Through Christmas weekend, the top ten films in 2015 accounted for nearly 35% of overall ticket sales. Last year that number was less than 25%.

 

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And while there was a great preponderance of global-spanning blockbusters than ever before, with five movies likely to exceed $1 billion in revenue for the first time, the wealth was more concentrated. Here’s a sign of how the riches weren’t divided as equitably. In 2013 and 2014, thirteen films made more than $200 million domestically, while in 2012, eleven pictures exceeded that threshold. This year, only nine films have eclipsed that figure.

 

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Only two studios, Universal and Disney, were responsible for the top six grossing films — the first time that has happened since at least 1980.

 

The one-percenters’ slice of the overall pie was far greater too. Universal, which fielded “Jurassic World,” “Furious 7,” and “Minions,” commanded 22% of the market share and earned a massive $6.8 billion globally. In the past fifteen years, no studio has gobbled up more 20% of the market and exceeded $6 billion in receipts.

 

For its part, Disney, armed with popular brands such as Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm, exceed $5 billion globally for the first time, and currently is seen as a studio superpower without equal.

 

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The discrepancy in wealth accumulation is squeezing out mid-range hits, Bock and others argue. There is still a week left in 2015, but it appears as thought the number of films that gross $100 million or more will likely be at its lowest levels in five years. A sign that studios are hitting for power rather than average, mashing more home runs and scoring fewer doubles and triples.

 

[K1stpierre]

That's tough. I'll only be able to decide after watching each on its own, it 'might' beat ANH, but ESB I'm not so sure, tough task.

[AndyLL]

10 minutes ago, Baumer Fett said:

Im very close to ranking TFA above ESB now. I think its a perfect film. 

 

I had already reached that point after my 4th viewing.

 

However.... I'll have to rewatch everything in about 6 months and re-evaluate.

[Elessar]

Here's a controversal statement, no Star Wars is amazing. At best, they are fun adventure movies, no more, no less.

[#ED]

It's not better than ESB. 

[AndyLL]

1 minute ago, #ED2-D2 said:

It's not better than ESB. 

 

I think the characters are better and the story more 'even'