John Marston Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 will Bourne Legacy reach 100m? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideon Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 will Bourne Legacy reach 100m?I want this just for the sake of having perfect regularity:"Bourne = 100M or more". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 will Bourne Legacy reach 100m?Likely not. At this point I think if August is gonna give us any $100m grosser it will have to be Lawless as a big sleeper hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideon Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 The updated thread title is saddening.As if everything was in the mud with not a bright spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#ED Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I think TDKR grossed more than 100M this month if it counts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) August 2012 will have only one grosser over 100m- TDKR. Bourne should reach 100m by the end of its run but not by the end of this month. Edited August 18, 2012 by Gopher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideon Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 "Winning the month after its release"I would love to see a chart like that on Mojo.Isn't Avatar on 1st place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBrennan Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 2000. Space Cowboys was the highest grossing August release with $90m. However it's worth noting almost every August since has had only 1 movie that just barely crossed $100m. 2011 and 2009 were more exceptions.Well, at least with BL and TE2, it seems that there was an ATTEMPT at notable releases in August. For a few years there, the summer was ending in mid- and early-July! I liked the past few years a lot, with very solid releases like D9 and PotA being released late in August. This was the way it was when I was a kid, with movies like THE FUGITIVE and such released late. Though this particular year failed, at least Hollywood is returning to form and not ending the summer movie season on July 4th, for no logical reason whatsoever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackO Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 TE2 won't get great WoM, unfortunately there's a drop in quality. I loved the first one, but this one was just ok.The market is clearly not fully recovered, we have to wait for a while for the next 100m film.I agree the first Expendables was revered in that it was the first of it's type to bring them all together. There was no way the sequel could match that lightning in a bottle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpospoke Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 You and Shawn are in the same ridiculous boat with these kind of comments.Everything is speculation. There is no way to prove anything. There are people that decided not to go to the theaters just there are people that were drawn to see it because of the curiosity factor that humans have. There is not way to tell which was stronger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 The shooting helped TDKR? What bullsit is this? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#ED Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 The shooting helped TDKR? What bullsit is this?The dumbest post I have read so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Everything is speculation. There is no way to prove anything. There are people that decided not to go to the theaters just there are people that were drawn to see it because of the curiosity factor that humans have. There is no way to tell which was stronger. Yeah, there is a way. It's called common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 It's rare to rule two months when you don't open in December. Passion of the Christ, TDK, Hunger Games, and TDKR are the only films to do it this millennium-so-far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBrennan Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Judging by the WW B.O. and its legs, in my opinion there is no quantitative evidence that the "Joker" shooter (a Batman fan who "believed he was in a movie") had any substantial effect on TDKR's performance. This is why I think everybody is lapsing into wild, subjective speculation. So saying it helped the box office - while probably wrong and definitely counter-intuitive - is just as valid as saying it hurt it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Yeah, there is a way. It's called common sense. And that same common sense also tells us there was no way it would hit $600m without the shooting either. So let's not act like saying one is more stupid than the other. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBrennan Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 And, if people wanna get into speculation about the motives of millions of strangers, I'll throw in one: TDKR was contaminated not just by the Joker shooter (who himself was a big time Batman fan) but also by the RT incident (where critics who didn't like the movie were being threatened by the Nolanites) and the overall cult-like, obsessive, and creepy behavior of the Nolan Batman fans on Facebook and message boards.Combine that with the movie's own pretenses of being "politically relevant" (see: Josh Gordin Levitt interviews) and now it's ALSO contaminated with stupid American pop politics idiocy.So, in the weeks before its release, TDKR had ceased being associated with a cool hero who catches violent criminals and mutated into some sort of bizarre political tract authored by a cult leader to his creepy, obedient followers.In short, TDKR had already developed a stench in the days and weeks before its release. And the murderous actions of one of those Batman fans furthered that stench to new levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 (edited) And that same common sense also tells us there was no way it would hit $600m without the shooting either. So let's not act like saying one is more stupid than the other. Did you not read my post above where I said Shawn is in the same boat with him? Someone asked me to explain it and I pointed to Shawn's argument about $600m. Both are freaking ludicrous assertions and they both hide behind the bullshit argument that it's "all speculation and there is no way of knowing." http://forums.boxoffice.com/index.php?/topic/5200-friday-s-mostly-crappy-numbers-all-around/page__st__480#entry429507 Edited August 19, 2012 by redfirebird2008 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidBrennan Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Both are freaking ludicrous assertions and they both hide behind the bullshit argument that it's "all speculation and there is no way of knowing."If the definition of "bullshit arguments" has somehow been switched to, "obvious and common sense", then I agree with this claim.You're actually saying that it's NOT speculation? What, do you live in a parallel universe or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 If the definition of "bullshit arguments" has somehow been switched to, "obvious and common sense", then I agree with this claim.You're actually saying that it's NOT speculation? What, do you live in a parallel universe or something?Of course it's speculation. Hiding behind that to make ridiculous assertions (in either direction) is what I'm calling a bullshit argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
