K1stpierre Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 1 minute ago, Daxtreme said: It's not over, we've yet to see actuals and many of us here believe, me included, that Disney is lowballing it. Oh so is that Disney's estimate and not RTH's? I trust what RTH says than Disney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxOfficeZ Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 2 minutes ago, K1Rey said: So this didn't get past 90M this weekend? I'm a bit disappointed. I wonder if anyone had this number for their second weekend number. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 1 minute ago, K1Rey said: Oh so is that Disney's estimate and not RTH's? I trust what RTH says than Disney. Yep, Disney estimates. We're still waiting on rth numbers for Sunday Don't get your hopes too high though, the last sunday of the holidays is usually huge-drop-land 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted January 4, 2016 Community Manager Share Posted January 4, 2016 23 minutes ago, Jayhawk the Hutt said: Wonder how long they'll wait to continue the saga after this trilogy. I would say wait another 10 years, but that's unlikely. I hope they wait at least 5 years. With a plan for a SW movie every year, I don't think we'll be waiting 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 3 minutes ago, Obi-Wan Telemachos said: 2. SW:TFA is a better movie than ST I... okay, I suppose I have to agree with that. Dammit. (And suddenly I like ST09 less in retrospect.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1stpierre Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 2 minutes ago, BoxOfficeZ said: I wonder if anyone had this number for their second weekend number. It's hard not to get greedy and want more when the numbers have been godly so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted January 4, 2016 Community Manager Share Posted January 4, 2016 Guys. The #1 movie of 2015 so far is the re-release of Chimes of Midnight at $20,480. I wonder how long it'll be the number one 2016 film. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2016&p=.htm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Also, apparently, according to boxofficemojo we're getting actuals for the whole holidays tomorrow. Like, December 24th up to now. Is that true? If yes, how much of a change can we expect? Also, what do we have now then if it's true? Partial actuals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 15 minutes ago, theendsnotnearitshere said: With TFA being such a monster breakout in NA, even if there were people with extremely high expectations re its BO run, I wonder why ST09's, directed by the very same Greg Grunberg fuck buddy (I mean, come on!!), DOM total needs such a ridiculous multiplier to match this. Both films serve as reboots and sequels at the same time, and are very close in quality (though I'd say ST is more cohesive and has no pacing issues). Is ST just not as big in them States? Could you ever forgive the metric system? Do countless ST TV shows and movies play a part in this as well? Asking if ST is as big in the US is like asking if Iceland is as big geographically as the US is. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted January 4, 2016 Community Manager Share Posted January 4, 2016 1 minute ago, Baumer Fett said: Asking if ST is as big in the US is like asking if Iceland is as big geographically as the US is. Iceland isn't as big geographically as the US!? Could you ever forgive the metric system? Do countless states and land play a part in this as well? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Darth Water Bottle said: Guys. The #1 movie of 2015 so far is the re-release of Chimes of Midnight at $20,480. I wonder how long it'll be the number one 2016 film. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2016&p=.htm Dude. Only Yesterday is #2. Great movie. (Plus it looks like Daisy Ridley plays the lead. Awesomely serendipitous casting there.) (Actually, Ashley Eckstein who was in The Clone Wars, is also in it. Which may be the closest Ahsoka and Rey may ever come to meeting.) Edited January 4, 2016 by DamienRoc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 8 minutes ago, DamienRoc said: It doesn't even need a record. Remember when The Hobbit 3 was originally going to get a summer release? The films didn't exactly light the box office on fire, but they knew enough to stick to the pattern. However, there are examples of films which play with the structure. They realized with Harry Potter that they couldn't do a one-film-a-year thing and went to 18-ish months from 3 onward, until they only did an 8 month break from 7 to 8. Twilight took the same strategy. (I'm starting to wonder if The Hunger Games should have done the same. Perhaps the MJ problem was doing too much too fast.) It's a little weird because it's almost starting to feel like two years between films is too long, but one year isn't enough. And not just production-wise. Audiences need time to breathe, perhaps? So how do you play with it? Remember when sequels took three years? Yeah, those were the days. With Potter it felt more like "we CAN'T make one per year" than "we shouldn't make one per year". It's a little different, since Potter was largely a singular crew working on all 8 movies, whereas Star Wars has separate crews on the episodes and the spin-offs It's certainly an interesting question - how much is too much? how long is too long? The Mockingjay films lost momentum so quickly, and as much as quality and the lack of games feel like major reasons why, other franchises have survived worse. Those things compounded with the one-a-year formula probably led to the burnout 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 For anyone interested in a long ass, long winded post about the last 17 days of SW and how it relates to our forums, have a read: http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/20885-baumers-star-wars-the-force-awakens-rant/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthWalker Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 The anniversary doesn't matter to me in the least but Disney world be FUCKING RETARDED to put an avengers movie at the beginning of one month and a star wars movie at the end of that same month especially in this case (infinity war being RDJ's final mcu film AT MINIMUM and episode ix being the finale of A TRILOGY REGARDLESS) I say Nov/Dec 19 (depending on AVATAR but prob Nov for reasons I said earlier) for ix regardless of viii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Sun could end up 21.2-22.2m, see how weekend actuals end up 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tupek Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 16 minutes ago, K1Rey said: So this didn't get past 90M this weekend? I'm a bit disappointed. First time in history a movie makes $88m on a third weekend, and its a disappointment... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Just now, Rth said: Sun could end up 21.2-22.2m, see how weekend actuals end up So about the the rival studios said it would do...about 90-91 mill. Love it when Disney lowballs. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted January 4, 2016 Community Manager Share Posted January 4, 2016 1 minute ago, Baumer Fett said: So about the the rival studios said it would do...about 90-91 mill. Love it when Disney lowballs. They sure learned their lesson from Age of Ultron. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxmoser3 Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I think January 2016 will come close to 2010's record. But February looks dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theendsnotnearitshere Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I like how this out of the blue wannabe troll post, made while putting off writing my paper for a millionth time today (and I've yet to think of and write down a credible explanation for why I'm, yet again, turning it in past the deadline), totally inspired by randomly remembering laughing out loud at GG popping in yet another one of JJ's projects, rubbed you all the wrong way. It's 4.30 am here and I'm sleep deprived and I got jealous because I'll never be able to write these posts like DamienRoc does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
