Heretic Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 Madagascar is really popular here too.Number 2 opened to £6.3m in 3 days, without 3D, and ended with over £23m.Madagascar 3 opens on top of half term, so that should give it a nice boost. £20m should happen again I think.I'm excited to see what The Hobbit can do. I think it could get no.2 of all time, in pounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 I'm unsure about The Hobbit, I expect a big OW over £15-16m and strong legs but its now a trilogy so I expect the final Hobbit film to do the best business. I think the next big openers will be Skyfall which I expect will match or even beat QoS OW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 I'm not expecting anything less than £65m from The Hobbit. In order to get into second place it needs £73.5m+. Obviously not easy in the slightest, but it's doable.Skyfall could have the biggest opening of the year. QoS opened to £15.5m, so all it needs is a £0.3m increase on that and it'll beat The Avengers, although, that was 4 day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 The Dark Knight Rises currently has the highest three day opening so £15-16m is doable for Skyfall to beat both Avengers and TDKR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druv10 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Madagascar is really popular here too.Number 2 opened to £6.3m in 3 days, without 3D, and ended with over £23m.Madagascar 3 opens on top of half term, so that should give it a nice boost. £20m should happen again I think.I'm excited to see what The Hobbit can do. I think it could get no.2 of all time, in pounds.What movie could approach Avatar for number 1 of all-time?Finally, some good news for Brave OS. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 What movie could approach Avatar for number 1 of all-time? Finally, some good news for Brave OS. :) Hmm, I really don't know about that. Perhaps the last Hobbit movie has the best chance right now, but even that would be incredibly tough, and unlikely. £93.4m is £20m more than the 2nd highest grossing film ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCS Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Too early to think about Skyfall/Hobbit/Madagascar 3 OWs! :PAs this is such a great year of UK BO, 15+ films should break the £20M mark in 2012 which would be amazing!Anyone know what year had the most £20M+ films for comparison? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCS Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Hmm, I really don't know about that. Perhaps the last Hobbit movie has the best chance right now, but even that would be incredibly tough, and unlikely. £93.4m is £20m more than the 2nd highest grossing film ever. With the 3D re-release Titanic is 2nd place now with £79M so less than £20M to reach Avatar's £93M. But Titanic did have a re-release which is 'cheating' but Avatar had a summer re-release too so both top 2 films 'cheated'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 With the 3D re-release Titanic is 2nd place now with £79M so less than £20M to reach Avatar's £93M. But Titanic did have a re-release which is 'cheating' but Avatar had a summer re-release too so both top 2 films 'cheated'.I don't really count Titanic's re-release, because it made like £10m more.When was Avatar's re-release? It made over £91.5m up until the beginning of April, so it can't have been at all significant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 refering to the Avatar :Special Edition it added about 8 minutes footage, exclusive in 3d & Imax 3D 27-aug-10 Avatar was still running in well some theatres and then on that date in the UK it went back into 343 theatres and in the 1st week SE ranked #8, it was upto about lc 92.2m prior to the SE coming out, in NA SE added 10.7m to the domestic total Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 Wow. Still running 8 months after release in some cinemas!? That's crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rthmessiah Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Wow. Still running 8 months after release in some cinemas!? That's crazy.BFI Imax London with a few weeks here and there that it wasn't on plus the SE it did 62 weeks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Avatar's run at the BFI IMAX must have been on and off as they showed Alice in Wonderland and Tron there. But IIRC it was booked solid from December-March. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druv10 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 BFI Imax London with a few weeks here and there that it wasn't on plus the SE it did 62 weeks Avatar was just a phenomenon. Hmm, I really don't know about that. Perhaps the last Hobbit movie has the best chance right now, but even that would be incredibly tough, and unlikely. £93.4m is £20m more than the 2nd highest grossing film ever. What do you see Avatar 2 making? Can it push the all-time barrier to 100M pounds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilipJ2001 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 nah Avatar 2 will decrease from the first one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Avatar was just a phenomenon.What do you see Avatar 2 making? Can it push the all-time barrier to 100M pounds?I don't know much about the UK Box Office, but I highly doubt that. You said yourself, Avatar was a phenomenon, and it's unlikely to be repeated by the sequel. It should see pretty substantial decreases, like maybe around the 70-80m pound mark. I'd say the same thing for Australia too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druv10 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 I don't know much about the UK Box Office, but I highly doubt that. You said yourself, Avatar was a phenomenon, and it's unlikely to be repeated by the sequel. It should see pretty substantial decreases, like maybe around the 70-80m pound mark. I'd say the same thing for Australia too. When you factor in 5 maybe 6 years of inflation, drop in admissions will be substantial then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lab276 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 When you factor in 5 maybe 6 years of inflation, drop in admissions will be substantial then.True enough I suppose. But I still think passing the first is practically out of the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 I don't know much about the UK Box Office, but I highly doubt that. You said yourself, Avatar was a phenomenon, and it's unlikely to be repeated by the sequel. It should see pretty substantial decreases, like maybe around the 70-80m pound mark. I'd say the same thing for Australia too.Avatar 2 will have much bigger numbers in Asia and Latin America, that would offset decreases in Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 normally I would agree, but James Cameron is specialthere is a chance that he can build up anticipation for AVATAR2 so much that it performs like TA on steroids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
