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[The Horror of Lucas Films]

1 hour ago, Krissykins said:

The franchise still has the biggest domestic hit of all time, even if it’s ending on a whimper, they still have that.  

 

It makes things even worse, IMO. Coming from a movie that made almost $1b Adjusted DOM only to a finale that may miss that same $1b but on a GLOBAL scale is a type of implosion that I've never witnessed before. 

[Menor the Destroyer]

13 minutes ago, Arendelle Legion said:

Rogue One opened at 12th on OW charts. Modern equivalent is to beat BATB at 174.75. That will be my bar for utter disaster, and it looks like it could be a close call.

Mostly unrelated but I find it funny how SW gave up 2 opening weekend records with weekday openings. Both TPM and ROTS would have nabbed it if not for that. If TLJ had kept the May release date it would have had a shot as well. And here we are with TROS opening...sigh.

Edited December 19, 2019 by Menor

[MattW]

9 minutes ago, bleachella said:

It's funny that it's performing weaker than TLJ in the most markets but randomly set opening day record in my country. I guess it's up to us to save the international box office, who needs China when you have Finland!

If every man, woman, child and squirrel in Finland goes four times it should be fine.

 

[Legion Again]

4 minutes ago, MattW said:

If every man, woman, child and squirrel in Finland goes four times it should be fine.

 

The 4th item in that grouping is pulling a lot of the weight 😂

[TMP]

TENƎꓕ Prologue Weekend Thread

[reddevil19]

Can we please add this to the thread title: "See TROS in cinemas for Tenet trailer maximum effect"? 

Edited December 19, 2019 by reddevil19

[Cappoedameron]

13 minutes ago, The Horror of Lucas Films said:

 

It makes things even worse, IMO. Coming from a movie that made almost $1b Adjusted DOM only to a finale that may miss that same $1b but on a GLOBAL scale is a type of implosion that I've never witnessed before. 

Maybe they should have never said screw you to the fans?

[Krissykins]

14 minutes ago, The Horror of Lucas Films said:

 

It makes things even worse, IMO. Coming from a movie that made almost $1b Adjusted DOM only to a finale that may miss that same $1b but on a GLOBAL scale is a type of implosion that I've never witnessed before. 

Oh yeh, not saying it’s good to end this way,
 

Just saying Force Awakens is still the biggest domestic hit ever. 

[sfran43]

 

[redfirebird2008]

22 minutes ago, The Horror of Lucas Films said:

 

It makes things even worse, IMO. Coming from a movie that made almost $1b Adjusted DOM only to a finale that may miss that same $1b but on a GLOBAL scale is a type of implosion that I've never witnessed before. 

 

Alice In Wonderland 2 made $299M worldwide after the first one made $334M domestic and over $1 billion worldwide. 

[commendable]

Commendable is back for what is arguably two of the biggest disasters in modern movie history. On the same weekend. Truly is one for the history books.

[reddevil19]

Just now, sfran43 said:

 

Haha. The New Mutants...

Never fails to amuse.

[Justin4125]

20 minutes ago, The Horror of Lucas Films said:

 

It makes things even worse, IMO. Coming from a movie that made almost $1b Adjusted DOM only to a finale that may miss that same $1b but on a GLOBAL scale is a type of implosion that I've never witnessed before. 

We've seen this implosion many times before. Look at the first three Jurassic Park movies, they went ~$1B, ~$660m and ~$360m, that's technically even worse. Besides, we have to compare TROS to TLJ, not TFA. Even this year we had SLOP2 make half of SLOP1, and there are plenty of franchises with even steeper declines. This is alarming for Star Wars, but a ~20%-30% decline from a predecessor film and 50% down from the first in the series is nothing new or even that alarming, just by Star Wars standards it is

[Menor the Destroyer]

Just now, reddevil19 said:

Haha. The New Mutants...

Never fails to amuse.

Lol. Dark Phoenix was #3 on last year's list too. I guess there are a lot of Fox-men fans voting in these polls. 

[Legion Again]

3 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

Clear bias toward closer movies makes BW over Mulan that much crazier. Most anticipated lists need to be taken with a huge grain of salt, but I’ve got a good feeling about this.

[Lucas]

So wait, how poorly is TROS doing in the market's it's already opened at?

[Lion Roar]

8 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

No WW1984 but BoP is on there. 

[sfran43]

 

[titanic2187]

4 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

Once upon a time in Hollywood and Irishman?

 

They anticipated the film that may not be even shown in china.  

[Marcos12]

5 minutes ago, sfran43 said:

 

Hobbs and Shaw was not on this list and made $201m, Dark Phoenix was the 3 most anticipated and made $59m...