8M TFA Rth Monday number!!! SW7 has surpassed TA1 & F7 for 4th alltime WW!!!

[Punishment]

21 minutes ago, Wrath said:

 

Fun pro-Bonds factoid: Barry Bonds was *intentionally* walked more times during his career, than Albert Belle or Jim Rice had *total* walks in their careers.

 

Yea, if you took away all of Barry's hits in 2004 he still would have had a .376 on-base percentage; the amount of walks he received from 2001 to 2004 were insane.

[terrestrial]

a sports forum is here too btw (for the newbes)

 

http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/forum/13-sports/

 

[GiantCALBears]

5 minutes ago, Jayhawk the Hutt said:

I've actually seen him do the .5 day thing before. Can't remember which movie(s) but he definitely has, although he should do it for every film that has Thursday previews. I don't mind it, since it is #5ExtraHours. But for TFA, it likely would have still broken Potter's midnights record had it been released at 12am, and probably would have had a very similar OW total to the one it got. People could get the wrong idea that the OW grosses for these films would change that drastically had they released at midnight as opposed to 7pm.

It's pretty obvious the extra & earlier showings had a positive boost that was meaningful (esp since Friday morning was the last working/school day for many before the holidays). Not trying to take anything away from the previews/OD/OW but I can see that argument. Doesn't mean the man is "butthurt" lol seems so silly to put it that way. Guy is a pretty reliable resource most of the time.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Just now, GiantCALBears said:

It's pretty obvious the extra & earlier showings had a positive boost that was meaningful (esp since Friday morning was the last working/school day for many before the holidays). Not trying to take anything away from the previews/OD/OW but I can see that argument. Doesn't mean the man is "butthurt" lol seems so silly to put it that way. Guy is a pretty reliable resource most of the time.

I completely agree. He should just do it for every movie, for consistency's sake.

[Dementeleus]

Moderation:

 

Guys, I appreciate the passion about baseball, and I'm sorry I brought it up to begin with, since people took my post (semi)seriously. But Bonds/Ruth/Aaron/whoever is way off topic at this point. If you want to use them to make a box-office comparison, that's fine. But anything else should go to the Sports forum.

[Punishment]

2 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

a sports forum is here too btw (for the newbes)

 

http://forums.boxofficetheory.com/forum/13-sports/

 

 

[Wrath]

22 minutes ago, No Prisoners said:

Defense lacked.  But he was a top pitcher too. 

Offense, Ted comes close. 8th all time batting right behind teds average but better slugging percentage for ruth. No one comes close to those two.

 

The Splinter was an awesome hitter as well, but there are some other folks in that neighborhood, too. Gehrig is so famous for getting sick that people forget he was 1B to Ruth's 1A offensively, and had 12 consecutive seasons in which he was no worse than 4th in the AL in OB + SLG (1926-1937) and Ruth was still active for the first 9 of those.

 

Plus, Hornsby at around the same time won the Triple Crown twice, once as a shortstop and once as a second baseman, and *led* the NL in OP + SLG 10 times in 12 years.

 

Edit - Yes, I'm done.

Edited January 5, 2016 by Wrath

[RichWS]

Quote

Bay moved to Miami eight and a half years ago, after falling for the city while filming Bad Boys II. For a while he rented Madonna's old house, then bought this place from Hulk Hogan for $17 million. He has a house in Los Angeles too, where he was born. But he calls Miami home. "I loved L.A. growing up, but it's become too big and soulless," he says. He's also filmed three movies in Miami, which buys him a lot of goodwill when, say, he runs his brand-new Jet Ski into a Coast Guard patrol boat.

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/13-hours-can-michael-bay-pull-off-a-gritty-movie-about-benghazi-20160104?page=2

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

7 minutes ago, Punishment said:

 

Yea, if you took away all of Barry's hits in 2004 he still would have had a .376 on-base percentage; the amount of walks he received from 2001 to 2004 were insane.

I remember watching Bonds, but I was really young. His stats in the early 2000s are absolutely insane. I watched pretty much every Nats game this year, and to see what Bryce Harper did game in, game out at the plate was amazing. By all accounts, one of the greatest years ever at the plate. And Bonds in that 4 year stretch you mentioned had an OBP 100 points higher than Bryce this past year. Jaw dropping.

 

EDIT- Just saw Tele's post. That's it from me.

Edited January 5, 2016 by Jayhawk the Hutt

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

2 minutes ago, RichWS said:

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/13-hours-can-michael-bay-pull-off-a-gritty-movie-about-benghazi-20160104?page=2

And Miami isn't big and soulless?

[GiantCALBears]

4 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

Moderation:

 

Guys, I appreciate the passion about baseball, and I'm sorry I brought it up to begin with, since people took my post (semi)seriously. But Bonds/Ruth/Aaron/whoever is way off topic at this point. If you want to use them to make a box-office comparison, that's fine. But anything else should go to the Sports forum.

 

Never knew we had so many baseball fans on here to begin with.

[CoolioD1]

I like how with every new transformers movies michael bay directs they become more and more resentful of humanity.

[e1828]

Largest DOMESTIC Totals – After Day 18

1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $750,230,824 (Mon - $8,021,882)

2) Jurassic World – $506,899,800 (Mon - $6,526,380)

3) Marvel’s The Avengers - $463,353,451 (Mon - $5,687,934)

4) The Dark Knight - $400,038,494 (Mon - $6,287,429) 
5) Avengers: Age of Ultron - $375,466,255 (Mon - $3,435,547)

6) Avatar - $360,209,452 (Mon - $8,094,554)

7) The Dark Knight Rises - $358,660,592 (Mon - $4,725,498)

8) Iron Man 3 - $340,868,034 (Mon - $3,206,057)

9) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - $337,794,484 (Mon - $1,943,642)

10) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $332,127,039 (Sat - $9,476,273)

Spoiler

11) Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - $326,203,444 (Mon - $4,304,211) 

12) Harry Potter 7b:  Deathly Hallows Part 2 - $321,839,842 (Mon - $3,328,240)

13) Star Wars 3: ROTS - $307,892,961 (Sun - $7,555,982)

14) The Hunger Games - $306,593,939 (Mon - $4,143,217)

15) Shrek 2 - $302,608,864 (Sat - $15,563,658)

16) Toy Story 3 - $301,883,298 (Mon - $12,777,105)

17) Furious 7 - $296,532,315 (Mon - $2,021,640)

18) Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $296,487,753 (Sat - $8,622,714)

19) Spiderman 2 - $294,579,826 (Sat - $9,941,993) 

20) Spiderman - $289,882,492 (Mon- $4,308,824) 

21) Spiderman 3 - $284,729,332 (Mon - $2,349,677) 

22) Lord Of The Rings: ROTK - $283,395,934 (Sat - $10,563,221) 

23) Despicable Me 2 - $268,595,595 (Sat - $10,027,475)

24) Alice in Wonderland - $268,193,975 (Mon - $2,760,338) 

25) Minions - $265,544,530 (Mon - $3,090,160)

26) The Twilight Saga:  Eclipse - $260,969,703 (Sat - $5,134,441)

27) The Hunger Games:  Mockingjay Part 1 - $259,591,489 (Mon - $1,437,896)

28) Shrek The Third - $258,553,839 (Mon - $2,626,056)

29) The Twilight Saga:  New Moon - $256,392,782 (Mon - $1,029,730)
30) The Twilight Saga:  Breaking Dawn Part 2 - $255,813,342 (Mon - $1,214,476)

31) Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End - $255,610,936 (Mon - $2,169,213)

32) Lord Of The Rings: TT - $254,290,037 (Fri - $10,699,493)

33) The Passion Of The Christ - $253,792,087 (Sat - $13,452,908)

34) Iron Man 2 - $253,241,439 (Mon - $2,215,378)

35) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $253,014,750 (Sun - $6,614,468)

36) Man of Steel - $251,621,616 (Mon - $3,044,020)

37) Inside Out - $250,845,401 (Mon - $4,954,006)

38) American Sniper - $250,397,650 (Mon - $2,645,109)(1)

39) Harry Potter 6:  HBP - $249,893,845 (Sat - $6,755,356)

40) Transformers - $248,561,249 (Fri - $6,097,746)

41) The Twilight Saga:  Breaking Dawn Part 1 - $248,073,698 (Mon - $1,147,289)

42) Harry Potter 7a:  Deathly Hallows Part 1 - $245,657,482 (Mon - $1,138,366)

43) Star Wars 1: TPM - $245,134,578 (Sat - $13,854,324)

44) Harry Potter 5: OOTP - $236,845,162 (Sat - $7,073,211) 

45) The Matrix: Reloaded - $232,701,046 (Sun - $4,454,316)

46) Star Wars 2: AOTC - $232,324,823 (Sun - $6,488,254)  

47) Harry Potter 4: GOF - $230,406,014 (Mon - $1,139,298)

48) The Hunger Games:  Mockingjay Part 2 - $228,735,455 (Mon - $1,365,908)

49) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - $228,546,604 (Mon - $6,919,722)

50) Iron Man - $226,196,567 (Mon - $3,072,182)

51) Guardians of the Galaxy - $225,546,287 (Mon - $2,884,902)

52) Skyfall - $223,067,688 (Mon - $1,923,566)

53) The Amazing Spider-Man - $221,171,631 (Fri - $3,447,317) 
54) Harry Potter 1: SS - $220,931,289 (Mon - $1,261,000)

55) Monsters University - $218,814,952 (Mon - $2,560,973) 

56) The Hangover Part II - $215,727,461 (Sun - $4,384,646)

57) The Hobbit:  Battle of the Five Armies - $215,307,016 (Sat - $8,135,890)

58) Transformers:  Age of Extinction - $210,850,231 (Mon - $2,016,518)

59) Fast & Furious 6 - $204,960,175 (Mon - $2,147,595)

60) X-Men 3: The Last Stand - $203,913,170 (Mon - $1,668,518) 
61) Captain America: The Winter Soldier - $203,096,637 (Mon - $2,595,127)

 

1)     Includes $3.4 million before wide release

·         Star Wars: The Force Awakens become the first and only film to cross $750 million domestically in its initial run.

·         The Dark Knight crosses $400 million on Day 18, the fourth fastest to do so.

·         Avatar takes down The Dark Knight Rises.

·         The surprising Shrek 2 gains another 3 spots and enters the top 15.

·         Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman movies occupy the 19th, 20th and 21st positions on Day 18 as well.

·         The Passion of the Christ, with a strong $13+ million Saturday rockets up 9 spots.

·         Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 drops 4 spots to #42.

·         The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on NYE gains another 2 spots.

·         Crossing $300 million on Day 18:  Shrek 2 and Toy Story 3.

·         Crossing $250 million on Day 18:  Lord Of The Rings: TT, The Passion Of The Christ, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Man of Steel and American Sniper.

 

[Fancyarcher]

12 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

That's never stopped them before. And honestly (assuming their BP list is similar to the PGAs), MAD MAX, THE MARTIAN, and COMPTON are all fairly solid hits. It's not like everything on the list is snooty art fare (for better or worse).

 

Yeah, but snubbing the highest grossing film of all time, I don't know man, that just makes the academy look like its filled with a bunch of old geezers, if you get my point.

Of course, they've done it before, and they have always have to suffer the potential consequences, but yeah.

[B J]

yay

[terrestrial]

not an estimate anymore....

 

1

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

$8,021,882

-63%

4,134

0

$1,940

$750,230,824

3

Disney

[1Robert1]

1 hour ago, No Prisoners said:

Jan vs july weekdays

Look at the next weekend and you see that it will be up 66%~ over JW  with a holiday weekend to follow. Capisce now?

 

But it need 70% to overpass 1bln...

[CoolioD1]

oh god the whining here when star wars doesn't get a best picture nomination. it'll be like blank whining about the lego movie not being nominated except it'll be half the forum.

[TalismanRing]

3 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

I like how with every new transformers movies michael bay directs they become more and more resentful of humanity.

 

Maybe because the more people pay to see his new Transformers movies the more contempt he has for humanity.

[TalismanRing]

4 minutes ago, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

Yeah, but snubbing the highest grossing film of all time, I don't know man, that just makes the academy look like its filled with a bunch of old geezers, if you get my point.

Of course, they've done it before, and they have always have to suffer the potential consequences, but yeah.

 

Or it could be because many of those old geezers were young when the first Star Wars came out so the new one doesn't look very special in comparison.