The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey OS Thread: OVER 1B WW!

[A Marvel Fanboy]

You are ridiculous. You are forgetting Christmas holidays. The Hobbit will reign over all countries until early January. 1B WW is locked.

Not really.

[Rovex]

Reviews might be effecting the opening, but WOM is good, it will have legs. $1B is still in play. Remember people were disappointed by Avatars opening and it took most of the following week before they realised we were in for something special. This isnt going to do that, but it will have legs.

Edited December 14, 2012 by Rovex

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Yeah, in play is the right word At this point, saying 1B is locked is ridiculous.

Edited December 14, 2012 by firedeep

[Hatebox]

I wouldn't be surprised by it missing $1b WW.

That'd be terrible. But it'd also demonstrate that this site needs to stop thinking that just because something may underwhelm in the US, the easy-to-please OS crowd will still lap it up. I never made any hard predicts on TH so I have no right for an 'I told you so', but I always knew that the lower stakes of the film could be an issue and was vocal about not being impressed with the trailers. That kind of stuff affects OS just as much as DOM.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Bring on epic battles and actions as many as you can, then you own OS.

[Ball Lightning]

Love the over reactions here to a numbers from just 3 countries.. All still not on holidays I believe?

[Bluebomb]

Hobbit flopped in HK.

No it didn't. Stop being overdramatic.And what do you mean that The Hobbit only made half of Life of Pi's admissions?

[Elessar]

Remember people were disappointed by Avatars opening

Really? I wasn't. For an original movie it opened great. And Hobbit is a prequel, it'll be much more frontloaded.

[Elessar]

Love the over reactions here to a numbers from just 3 countries.. All still not on holidays I believe?

It's more than 3 countries. From Europe to Asia, results are tepid, except maybe Scandinavia. Edited December 14, 2012 by Elessar

[A Marvel Fanboy]

No it didn't. Stop being overdramatic.

And what do you mean that The Hobbit only made half of Life of Pi's admissions?

A mistake...

[Poseidon]

GERAvg tkt price 2 days about 10.3Avg yr 7.65Avg Skyfall 8.43Avg Avengers 11FOTR 6.94TT 7.01ROTK 7.10

Wow @ Avengers. Let's see, if "The Hobbit" comes closer with weekend ticket prices.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Hobbit is bombing in Japan:

http://forums.boxoffice.com/index.php?/topic/3478-japan-box-office-evangelion-30-launches-with-massive-numbers/page__st__1320

[IndustriousAngel]

Really? I wasn't. For an original movie it opened great. And Hobbit is a prequel, it'll be much more frontloaded.

We don't know that yet. We'll have to wait until Tuesday to see if the opening itself was frontloaded (atm Fri looks stronger than Thu though) and then for weekend 2 to see if there will be holiday legs.

[Olive]

south korea Friday

The Hobbit 192k admissions (+22%)

Projection of weekend

Sat. +100% 380k

Sunday -10% 345k

1.08M adm. 4-day OW; $8.1M

[Crusader]

Its time to stop kidding ourselves This is behaving like your regular blockbuster not some second coming or even LOTR franchise movie I am slowly making peace with the fact that 1 bil WW is probably not going to happen

[A Marvel Fanboy]

south korea Friday

The Hobbit 192k admissions (+22%)

Projection of weekend

Sat. +100% 380k

Sunday -10% 345k

1.08M adm. 4-day OW; $8.1M

$5M down from your intial prediction.

Horrible performance in SK ...

Edited December 14, 2012 by firedeep

[John Marston]

Ok don't get me wrong it's not opening as well as I thought it would but isn't it a little silly to keep calling it a "bomb" or "horrible performance" when the weekend isn't even over yet?

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Ok don't get me wrong it's not opening as well as I thought it would but isn't it a little silly to keep calling it a "bomb" or "horrible performance" when the weekend isn't even over yet?

When ODs are terrible you know something is wrong.

[Robertron]

Lets see how vibrant (not) this thread is looking when I wake up in 5 hours

[Rovex]

When ODs are terrible you know something is wrong.

you have an agenda here, you want this to fail, so you are only see it that way. Not going to mention any markets its doing well in i guess. How about when it breaks the Dec OW record in the US?