FilmBuff Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 What makes this weekend so incredible is the demand still being very high despite the fact it opened massively and had great holds during the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 32 minutes ago, druv10 Maul said: Watch it be 59.6M and Disney report 499.9M. Yeah, the Christmas Eve hold made it very difficult to jump 100% on Christmas Day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 15 minutes ago, Baumer Fett said: I'm no Xia, or even close to the best box office prognosticattor here, never have been and never will be. However, I seem to have a beat on SW, since the presales came in. I think SW has to start "slowing" a bit. By that I mean that there is no way it can keep Avatar's pace going. Avatar was a nice sized hit early on and then obviously wom kept it going so that it hit that 10X. SW is a different beast. It opened with the force of a tsunami combined with a typhoon and it just kept going to 7 days. Finally, on Christmas day it didn't follow Avatar's increase as it came in 27% less but this is a film that is moving at record speeds. It has to slow down because it didn't open like avatar. Based on all of this, I think today will see a smaller increase that Avatar's 22%, but not by much simply because there will be more showtimes. I also think it will slow a bit in the week to come. Now having said that, slow down just means instead of falling 9% on New Year's weekend, it will fall about 25%. A billion is all but locked based on this weekend, and really, I have no idea where it will land. Fans love it, those who have never seen a SW film before love it and critics love it. It's a perfect trifecta. So instead of putting down some arbitrary number as to where it will land, I will just say that it will do north of a billion and land somewhere between that and SW adjusted. It's a fun ride, and it will be for the next few months. If it held like Avatar it would end up w/ $2.5b domestic. People didn't honestly think that was going to continue beyond the first week right (or anywhere close for that matter)? Silly if so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Pamela McClintock @PamelaDayM Pamela McClintock Retweeted Hollywood Reporter Christmas Day CinemaScores: @ConcussionMovie (A), #BigShort (A-), 'Joy' & 'Daddy's Home' (B+), 'Point Break' (B) (hmm, I think that might have been already posted via another source, but not sure, better twice than not... if interested in such) SW 7 new records via IK: X-Mas, old was Sherlock Holmes $24.6m. Btw, that was sle OD of it! Friday record non opening Transformers 2 $36.7m (Catching Fire $31.6m) 2nd weekend Jurassic World $106.6m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Just now, GiantCALBears said: If it held like Avatar it would end up w/ $2.5b domestic. People didn't honestly think that was going to continue beyond the first week right (or anywhere close for that matter)? Silly if so. People were dreaming it would do it until the end of the holidays. I am sure everyone realizes this thing will disappear fast in January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Scottb Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 I wonder how many would have believed if a year ago someone came on here and predicted that Episode 7 would beat The Avengers Age of Ultron's total US gross in 9 days? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 1 minute ago, FilmBuff said: What makes this weekend so incredible is the demand still being very high despite the fact it opened massively and had great holds during the week. Demand was always going to remain high so I disagree somewhat. It's the holidays, movies hold a lot better no matter what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Old Tele Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 "Disappear fast"? That's a bannable offense. Seeiously, it's gonna be coming off a 100m third weekend. Just how fast do you think it's gonna disappear? 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpireCity Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 It won't disappear that fast. There is no other significant family coming out until Jan. 29th. It has a free run until then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 BoxOffice @BoxOffice SISTERS earned an estimated $4.66M on Friday. Domestic total is now $27.9M. #Sisters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackzack Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Point Break did better than expected, not that it is an impressive number... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 15 minutes ago, Lordmandeep said: However you guys failed to realize that SW7 held much better then Avatar on Wed and Thursday. Only on Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 2 minutes ago, Master Scottb said: I wonder how many would have believed if a year ago someone came on here and predicted that Episode 7 would beat The Avengers Age of Ultron's total US gross in 9 days? I am pretty sure I said in June this would do 1.1B DOM and 300M OW. Does that count? 1 minute ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said: "Disappear fast"? That's a bannable offense. Hidden Content It seriously won't surprise me if it drops to a 40M weekend on January 8 (if it does 100M 2nd weekend, if it does more I will adjust my prediction). It will have a super hold on MLK weekend and die after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpireCity Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 6 hours ago, Biggestgeekever said: I've seen you post on hsx before, I believe. Do you have insider info? I was making a guess on this one, but no real insider info for the most part. The late nights weren't quite as strong. Still a great number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Jurassic World made $55m in its third weekend and grossed another $152m after that. Seems like SW7 could do another $250-275m for sure and maybe more after a $105-110m third weekend. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiantCALBears Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 41 minutes ago, edmkh said: I wonder what is George Lucas thinking right now seeing this insane numbers for Episode 7. Quality aside, watching this episode 7 numbers; Episodes 2 and 3 were really a big box office disappointment. Episode 3 was a BO disappointment? Lol that's so wrong given the quality of 1 & 2. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrestrial Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 No comment on BO.com's $161m est. for the weekend post? Only $2m ubder their weekend prediction from 23 December. = not bad Hollywoor Reporter Force Awakens rocketed to $49.3 million from 4,134 theaters on Friday, blasting past the $24.6 million opening of Sherlock Holmes on Dec. 25, 2009 to secure the biggest Christmas Day gross of all time. It also raced past the $400 million mark domestically to finish the holiday with $440.4 million domestically. For the weekend, conservative estimates show Force Awakens earning $150 million-plus, the biggest second weekend in history (Jurassic World is the current record-holder with $106 million). Overall, Christmas Day revenue at the North American box office crossed $100 million for the first time ever; record levels are also expected for the holiday weekend, or north of $300 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 (edited) 9 minutes ago, CJ Ren said: People were dreaming it would do it until the end of the holidays. I am sure everyone realizes this thing will disappear fast in January. Even if falls off the face of the earth after Jan 3rd, non stop 50% drops, it makes another 200 million. Do some math. Edited December 26, 2015 by Lordmandeep 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druv10 Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 14 minutes ago, Baumer Fett said: This is assuming it follows Avatars drops. I think it will start coming down a bit. It's worse drops than Avatar. Here is Avatar drops 40M 37.6M 38M 30.4M 52.1M 53.24M 35.67M 837M by Jan 3rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTF Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 13 minutes ago, Vadermort said: No you are not.... I really realllyyy loved the prequels and especially episode III which was on par with episode V (IMO) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
