M37 Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 44 minutes ago, Hiccup23 said: Titanic had 101 days over $1mil straight. Avatar had 80 days. A2 will either have 48 days or 52 days. Just saw you said record of most days over $1mil- Titanic had 101 days straight and 123 days with $1mil+ gross. Keep in mind that was $1M in 1997 BO$ It didn’t drop below $774K for another 3 weeks, 122 straight days, until Mon April freaking 20th for a December release 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup23 Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 3 minutes ago, M37 said: Keep in mind that was $1M in 1997 BO$ It didn’t drop below $774K for another 3 weeks, 122 straight days, until Mon April freaking 20th for a December release Oh I didn't take into account inflation! I keep forgetting how truly wild Titanic's run was. Thanks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiffy Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Titanic and The Beatles probably the two biggest multi-media events of the 20th century on a global scale. GWTW had a different trajectory with insane longevity over decades, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptNathanBrittles Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 GWTW didn't release in many countries until after WW2 and it still broke records all over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinksterAC Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, Hiccup23 said: Oh I didn't take into account inflation! I keep forgetting how truly wild Titanic's run was. Thanks Imagine if this December 15-ish a movie opened domestically to a 60M weekend & didn't have a weekend below: 60M until mid-January 50M until mid-February 30M until the beginning of April For those few of us who tracked this stuff back in '97, it was absolutely unfathomable. Edited February 2, 2023 by LinksterAC 5 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo & Sheldon's Son Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Wow discussion is dead today let's get some numbers Otto - $645k (-22%) PIB2 - $604k (-24%) M3GAN - $388k (-34%) Missing - $380k (-30%) Probably looking at -30% for A2 to just about cling on to $1m dailies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Jane Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Avatar: The Way of Water grossed $1.08M on Wednesday (from 3,600 locations), which was a 25% decrease from the previous Wednesday. Total domestic gross stands at $624.61M. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptNathanBrittles Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 2 hours ago, LinksterAC said: Imagine if this December 15-ish a movie opened domestically to a 60M weekend & didn't have a weekend below: 60M until mid-January 50M until mid-February 30M until the beginning of April For those few of us who tracked this stuff back in '97, it was absolutely unfathomable. E.T.'s run was close, though a bit different. E.T. legs were even more backloaded than TITANIC's. ET's 4th weekend was bigger than the OW record at the time. Its first 7 weekends were all within 23.1% of the OW record. The closest TITANIC was away from the OW record of the time was 50.9%. In weekend 7 TITANIC was 64.1% away from THE LOST WORLD'S opening. E.T. was a summer release so it had weaker weekends/stronger weekdays compared to most of TITANIC's run. If you compare their weeks instead of weekends, E.T. beat TITANIC in week 4, 6 and 8, then consistently won after week 18. Thanks to Christmas E.T.'s 29th week was bigger than its 14th in which it grossed a staggering $23m adjusted. The last time TITANIC saw those numbers was week 17. E.T. played for over a year in its initial run. In its 52nd weekend, which is the last one I could find numbers for, it grossed $7.3m adjusted. TITANIC set sail from theatres after 41 weeks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Jane Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 1 minute ago, CaptNathanBrittles said: E.T.'s run was close, though a bit different. E.T. legs were even more backloaded than TITANIC's. ET's 4th weekend was bigger than the OW record at the time. Its first 7 weekends were all within 23.1% of the OW record. The closest TITANIC was away from the OW record of the time was 50.9%. In weekend 7 TITANIC was 64.1% away from THE LOST WORLD'S opening. E.T. was a summer release so it had weaker weekends/stronger weekdays compared to most of TITANIC's run. If you compare their weeks instead of weekends, E.T. beat TITANIC in week 4, 6 and 8, then consistently won after week 18. Thanks to Christmas E.T.'s 29th week was bigger than its 14th in which it grossed a staggering $23m adjusted. The last time TITANIC saw those numbers was week 17. E.T. played for over a year in its initial run. In its 52nd weekend, which is the last one I could find numbers for, it grossed $7.3m adjusted. TITANIC set sail from theatres after 41 weeks. That’s different times Gone with the wind and the sound of music run is more impressive 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiffy Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 57 minutes ago, CaptNathanBrittles said: E.T.'s run was close, though a bit different. E.T. legs were even more backloaded than TITANIC's. ET's 4th weekend was bigger than the OW record at the time. Its first 7 weekends were all within 23.1% of the OW record. The closest TITANIC was away from the OW record of the time was 50.9%. In weekend 7 TITANIC was 64.1% away from THE LOST WORLD'S opening. E.T. was a summer release so it had weaker weekends/stronger weekdays compared to most of TITANIC's run. If you compare their weeks instead of weekends, E.T. beat TITANIC in week 4, 6 and 8, then consistently won after week 18. Thanks to Christmas E.T.'s 29th week was bigger than its 14th in which it grossed a staggering $23m adjusted. The last time TITANIC saw those numbers was week 17. E.T. played for over a year in its initial run. In its 52nd weekend, which is the last one I could find numbers for, it grossed $7.3m adjusted. TITANIC set sail from theatres after 41 weeks. Yah E.T. and Titanic probably the two most impressive runs post-82, although I still give the edge to Titanic since it had to compete with home video / cable and was more global (+Diamond selling soundtrack). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hiccup23 Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Would love to A2 squeeze past Infinity War. Gonna manifest it. I also don't see A2 staying above $1mil Thursday unfortunately. I think a mid $900k number is most likely. I would love to be wrong though 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budice Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 If Knock at the Cabin supposed to have a $20M weekend. It has a ways to go. Might have 20 tickets sold at the local theater for Thu previews. Generally not a good sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interiorgatordecorator Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 1 hour ago, CaptNathanBrittles said: E.T.'s run was close, though a bit different. E.T. legs were even more backloaded than TITANIC's. ET's 4th weekend was bigger than the OW record at the time. Its first 7 weekends were all within 23.1% of the OW record. The closest TITANIC was away from the OW record of the time was 50.9%. In weekend 7 TITANIC was 64.1% away from THE LOST WORLD'S opening. E.T. was a summer release so it had weaker weekends/stronger weekdays compared to most of TITANIC's run. If you compare their weeks instead of weekends, E.T. beat TITANIC in week 4, 6 and 8, then consistently won after week 18. Thanks to Christmas E.T.'s 29th week was bigger than its 14th in which it grossed a staggering $23m adjusted. The last time TITANIC saw those numbers was week 17. E.T. played for over a year in its initial run. In its 52nd weekend, which is the last one I could find numbers for, it grossed $7.3m adjusted. TITANIC set sail from theatres after 41 weeks. time for a stupid question how did e.t market itself in order to reach such heights at the box office, all of the other runs of similar caliber have much stronger hooks (atlest in theory) in comparasion to the somewhat small scale e.t? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptNathanBrittles Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 2 hours ago, Sophia Jane said: That’s different times Gone with the wind and the sound of music run is more impressive Different times but not that different. The second highest grossing film of '82 was TOOTSIE and it ran for 28 weeks. (53.8% of E.T. [assuming it ended its run at 52]). The second highest grossing film of '97 was MEN IN BLACK and it also ran for 28 weeks. (68% of TITANIC). Both E.T. and TITANIC were exceptional in their own time. I would agree that GWTW and THE SOUND OF MUSIC (and I would add STAR WARS) had more impressive runs but we don't have their complete weekly/weekend grosses so we can't compare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoMisfits Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 44 minutes ago, budice said: If Knock at the Cabin supposed to have a $20M weekend. It has a ways to go. Might have 20 tickets sold at the local theater for Thu previews. Generally not a good sign. It was interesting that I was in a group board discussion about this movie with adults 35+ - and the 1st question from the male posters was "how is this a movie - why wouldn't dad just sacrifice himself in the 1st 30 seconds to save the rest of his family?" This may be why the movie is skewing male 17-34 per BoxOfficePro. I'm not sure adults 35+ can imagine why this decision is so hard and how it can be a full length movie if that's the only conflict... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptNathanBrittles Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 (edited) 43 minutes ago, interiorgatordecorator said: time for a stupid question how did e.t market itself in order to reach such heights at the box office, all of the other runs of similar caliber have much stronger hooks (atlest in theory) in comparasion to the somewhat small scale e.t? The trailer leaned heavily on Spielberg's previous box office smashes - JAWS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, RAIDERs. Cleverly, the trailer didn't show E.T. so if you wanted to see what E.T. looked like you had to see the movie. But the main reason for its success was that it was a word of mouth monster. Edited February 3, 2023 by CaptNathanBrittles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubsfan Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 55 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said: It was interesting that I was in a group board discussion about this movie with adults 35+ - and the 1st question from the male posters was "how is this a movie - why wouldn't dad just sacrifice himself in the 1st 30 seconds to save the rest of his family?" This may be why the movie is skewing male 17-34 per BoxOfficePro. I'm not sure adults 35+ can imagine why this decision is so hard and how it can be a full length movie if that's the only conflict... Because that wasn’t the plot of the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoMisfits Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 Just now, cubsfan said: Because that wasn’t the plot of the movie. But that's the plot the trailers are selling...and those trailers are what drive GA to a movie or from a movie... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTP Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 I have never seen E.T. Does the film still hold up today? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
