Wednesday 6th, 2016 | SW 7 $6.2M = $764.4 = Officially #1 | DH 1.54 | H8 1.44 | Sisters 1.16 | BigShort 869k | Joy 855k | p.7 chart

[kayumanggi]

SPECTRE aiming for that 200 M.

[B J]

that u.k. gross

[Punishment]

Before The Force Awakens:

 

ALL TIME RECORDS

Jurassic World (31 records) Avatar (9 records)   After The Force Awakens:   ALL TIME RECORDS Star Wars: The Force Awakens (41 records) Avatar (5 records) Jurassic World (4 records)

[spazz91]

3 minutes ago, Chewy said:

That NC-17 record tho

 

On BOM it looks like there's only 31 NC-17 films total (that were officially released in theaters)

[jornacio]

It may sound weird, but this new king of the box office (which im glad that surpassed Avatar) shows what an amazing run ET and Titanic have. Avatar was on top of the bussines for 6 years, but considering it has a whole new technology to get more cash, its far from what Titanic and ET acomplished.

[TalismanRing]

17 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Big Short is gaining nearly 1K theaters this weekend, expect there to be a low drop. Good TC increases for Daddy's Home and H8ful as well.

Point Break's drop  Concussion is losing a lot as well.

 

 

Some big swings - need to update by Derby  I think BS could go up since I expected it to have the softest drop among holdovers.

[Biph Shmata]

2 minutes ago, spazz91 said:

 

On BOM it looks like there's only 31 NC-17 films total (that were officially released in theaters)

At least Man Bites Dog makes the top 25 on some list, love that movie.

[terrestrial]

5 minutes ago, Jayhawk the Hutt said:

Pretty crazy, but Disney made all the theaters keep it for at least 4 weeks, instead of the normal 2.

 

I know, but still, o.K. I have headache like hell, so my brain is a bit mushy, but was there every any...?

I have for the moment not even an idea which movie to look up (Avatar had a small drop, but was under 4000 anyway), I checked some (the list only has 68 titles) I didn't even found one that stayed at at least 4000 at it's 4th weekend

 

3 minutes ago, Daxtreme said:

Well boys, ...

... and girls

[JonathanLB]

Avatar was probably one of the least impressive kings of the domestic box office. I think everyone who follows the box office is MUCH more impressed with the incredible numbers and consistency it put up in the rest of the world. That's what's astonishing.

 

In pure ticket sales, though, has any #1 film sold fewer than Avatar? It heavily benefitted from 3D and IMAX to an extent no previous film ever had before. With TFA, yes, it has benefited from those higher ticket prices as well, but it should also pass Avatar by $175M at least and that's with almost half the tickets still just being regular 2D ones.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

Just now, JonathanLB said:

Avatar was probably one of the least impressive kings of the domestic box office. I think everyone who follows the box office is MUCH more impressed with the incredible numbers and consistency it put up in the rest of the world. That's what's astonishing.

 

In pure ticket sales, though, has any #1 film sold fewer than Avatar? It heavily benefitted from 3D and IMAX to an extent no previous film ever had before. With TFA, yes, it has benefited from those higher ticket prices as well, but it should also pass Avatar by $175M at least and that's with almost half the tickets still just being regular 2D ones.

Come on dude, let's not start this again.

[Chewy]

Avatar's domestic run was extremely impressive, not being the BIGGEST EVER doesn't diminish its run in any way. Can we not do this

[Ozymandias]

Yeah Showgirls's 20m NC-17 record will never be beaten.  Incredible feat.

[philippe08]

11 minutes ago, Punishment said:

Before The Force Awakens:

 

ALL TIME RECORDS

Jurassic World (31 records) Avatar (9 records)   After The Force Awakens:   ALL TIME RECORDS Star Wars: The Force Awakens (41 records) Avatar (5 records) Jurassic World (4 records)

 

Avatar is the most important record:

2.787 billion dollars.

SW7 will be very far from this figure, maximum 2.2.

 

[terrestrial]

 

EXCLUSIVE: Star Wars: The Force Awakens could soar as high as $2.25bn worldwide to finish behind Avatar in the all-time pantheon, according to a former high-ranking studio executive.

 

...Randy Greenberg, the former head of marketing and distribution ...his projections factoring in conservative numbers for China, ....

....is on course to finish (dom) on $900m-$910m ... with the proviso .... in theatres through the first week of April or thereabouts.

The international ... has climbed to $812.2m as of Thursday .... as the 11th biggest international release in history.

Greenberg projects the film will finish in the $1bn-$1.1bn range without Chinese box office and again, so long as it stays in theatres through the first week of April or thereabouts.

The former studio executive, .... estimated the opening weekend in China could generate around $50m and gross $125m-$175m by the end of its run.

Insiders say the film could open anywhere from $25m-$100m, however without much prior brand awareness in the territory for the Star Wars franchise it remains tough to call how a sci-fi property from the West will play. ...

...Disney has worked hard to market The Force Awakens in China. .... is more interested in playing the long game rather than pinning its hopes on a spectacular debut this weekend.

.... but the real expectations lie further down the line when studio executives will look for strong – and possibly more predictable – audience responses to Rogue One On December 16, ...

http://www.screendaily.com/box-office/force-awakens-targets-2-all-time-global-rank/5098623.article

 

 

 

Addition: Rogue One has 2 Chinese actors in considerable/major roles (ask at China, I am not that into spoilers and have as such avoided details, incl size of the role). !5 March is the release of digital, around 8 April the discs

 

 

[Plain Old Tele]

7 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

The former studio executive, .... estimated the opening weekend in China could generate around $50m and gross $125m-$175m by the end of its run.

Insiders say the film could open anywhere from $25m-$100m...

 

 

This just shows how little even veteran insiders know about China. SW has a 2-day OW there, since it's opening on Saturday. With projections coming in around a 20m OD, $50m is a big stretch, and "up to 100m" is out of the question.

[Plain Old Tele]

btw, AVATAR's domestic run was the stuff of legend too. A 2% drop for second weekend and 10% for third weekend is astonishing for a 70m+ opener. And then, post-holidays, it had extraordinary legs for a big opener.

[Blankments]

1 hour ago, RichWS said:

 

Mark Hamill nods in agreement. 

Daisy Ridley is gonna be the best Harley Quinn voice ever in fifteen years

[Daxtreme]

19 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

This just shows how little even veteran insiders know about China. SW has a 2-day OW there, since it's opening on Saturday. With projections coming in around a 20m OD, $50m is a big stretch, and "up to 100m" is out of the question.

 

Also, they predict that TFA will finish its domestic run with 900-910 M

 

Which is, honestly, the absolute floor right now

[terrestrial]

24 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

This just shows how little even veteran insiders know about China. SW has a 2-day OW there, since it's opening on Saturday. With projections coming in around a 20m OD, $50m is a big stretch, and "up to 100m" is out of the question.

Agree, I am really happy they already added the reduced 'insider' hint too, and the hint for the future goals... maybe a few squeaky 'movie xy bla was better' posts less

 

On Screen China: The ‘Star Wars’ Force Is Strong for the Future

• Early ticket sales data indicate film will not set records in the territory
• Disney’s efforts set the stage for long-term franchise growth
• When the original Star Wars released in 1977, China had just come out of a decade-long Cultural Revolution

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Spoiler

 

Star Wars: The Force Awakens will finally invade Chinese theaters this Saturday, January 9 and the hype is at a fever pitch — in Hollywood.

From reading English-language media, one would expect “the force” to wake with as much power as it did three weeks ago in the rest of the world. Outlets such as Reuters and The Hollywood Reporter have delved into the online chatter and talked to the heads of major theater chains in reports predicting largely positive outcomes.

 

 However, the tone in mainland China has been more muted, especially in interior cities where the franchise comes nowhere near being the cultural phenomenon it is in other countries. When the original Star Wars released in 1977, China had just come out of a decade-long Cultural Revolution, when movie making stopped entirely, then restarted with a propaganda bent.

According to the real-time box office tracking app Cat’s Eye (猫眼),  presales for The Force Awakens point to around RMB 6.6 million ($1 million) for midnight screenings and RMB 132 million+ ($20+ million) for its opening Saturday, figures that lag well behind the Chinese debuts of other Hollywood juggernauts such as Furious 7 ($66.8 million) and Avengers: Age of Ultron ($33.9 million). It bears noting that China’s currency has weakened significantly against the U.S. dollar over the past six months, so The Force Awaken’s final USD total will see a roughly 5% reduction as a result. Still, with the next three weeks cleared of box office competition, China Film Insider predicts that this first installment of the rebooted Star Wars trilogy will gross an admirable $150 (Olive just reduced his to ~ $105-$110m) million before Kung Fu Panda 3 opens on January 29.

Now should Disney really be concerned that The Force Awakens won’t be breaking box office records in China? Absolutely not.

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First, the film has broken just about every single record in North America and will undoubtedly cross $2 billion in ticket sales worldwide, a feat so astounding only two other films in history — Titanic ($2.18 billion) and Avatar ($2.78 billion) — have managed to accomplish. Though all eyes will be focused on China this weekend, Disney clearly doesn’t need a phenomenal run there to prove that its $4 billion acquisition of the Star Wars franchise was a smart investment.

Second, Disney has done a great job laying the foundation for future Star Wars installments, spinoffs, and merchandising in China, by using The Force Awakens to introducing the brand to a new generation of moviegoers, and they can expect to see the dividends pay off in the coming years as the Star Wars culture establishes a foothold in the nation’s psyche, with Chinese actors taking on roles in the franchise’s coming spinoff, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Disney doesn’t have to look very far to find a comparable precedent: While it took several years for the studio’s Marvel universe to get off the ground in China, that is now by far the highest-grossing franchise there.

 

SPOILER = the Chinese clip that caused the buzz = music video that shows IMHO way too much of the movie. Not sure if I should delete it or not?

Spoiler

 

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As a key part of its future success, Disney’s hiring of pop star Lu Han as its Star Wars cultural ambassador has been a savvy (albeit controversial) move. Most of the 700,000 “Star Wars” mentions on Sina Weibo cited by Reuters last month have little to do with the movie itself and instead they are mostly all about how “Ahhhhhh Lu Han is soooooo handsome!” as one fan put it. As a result, Disney marketing executives can rest assured that Xīngqiú dàzhàn (星球大战, literally “Star Wars”) has entered the online vocabulary of China’s most sought after demographic.

So the force has indeed awakened in China. Perhaps not with the kind of power to “rock this place tonight” and “shake it to the ground now,” as Lu Han sings in the just-released music video for “The Inner Force” (above), but rather with the slow burn of an enterprise willing to take its time, experiment, and get to know its audience over the long haul.

 

Link looks like.... I am not sure if it will be later on still accessable?

 

http://chinafilminsider.com/on-screen-china-3/

 

Edited January 7, 2016 by terrestrial

[Jim Shorts]

When you're the first movie to gross 700 million, that's impressive as fuck.