iceroll Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Since TDK and I started posting since New Moon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceroll Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 since about 1979/80Oh wow I thought you were a twenty-something year old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impact Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 I remember when New Moon was making huge midnights a lot of us were making jokes about its OD since we didn't believe the midnight numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommycruise Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I got interested in the boxoffice when 2012 came out, it made huge numbers overseas and i would check at least a couple times a week to see how much more money it made.But it wasn't until Avatar that I got really interested in the boxoffice, when I saw that it had made like 745m in like 20 days I was astounded, I hadn't even known that was possible, but then it passed a billion, then Titanic and finally it passed 2 billion which I thought was pretty phenomenal.But it wasn't until around when Alice in Wonderland opened that I joined the forums on boxofficemojo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Boxoffice tracking Via newspapers: 1994/1995: Earliest movie i remember tracking was Apollo 13 but I know it wasnt the first, maybe Forrest Gump and Lion King. Boxoffice tracking via boxoffice forums: 1996 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sims Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 First got interested when HP1 broke the record. Began checking it weekly in summer 2002. I should probably have done other things in 3rd and 4th grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Since TF2 vs HP6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caladbolg Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Took an interest in '97-99 hearing the news about Titanic and The Phantom Menace. Seriously got into tracking with the LOTR, HP movies in the early 2000s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punishment Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I have checked box office stats off and on since1999 when The Phantom Menace came out. I've never really posted in any forums until The Avengers came out this year.This is the site that got me into the box office:http://www.the-movie-times.com/They used to have all kinds of great polls/surveys, which I love Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I would always check the wiki charts once OOTP was released, then I watched HBP's run on Mojo and joined when it passed 300m.Cool story, I remember my first post was a 'Congrats HBP on passing 300m' in a thread and then Impact locked it because I had bumped an old thread haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcolet1031 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 it was May 2005. when ROTS was coming out. I saw the news talking about it having potential to break records. So i got interested... and started looking box office numbers up. I still remember all of the crazy people camping outside of theaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek the Jedi Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I started following box office in 1981 with the release of Superman 2 and Raiders of the Lost Ark. I tarcked box office info. from magazines that would print weekend/weekly numbers for the movies.ohh my, I am not alone here feeling very old :DDDDD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
townzy89 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Since Spider-Man 2. Heard on radio that Metallica SKOM had a better PTA. So googled it and found BOM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Harris Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Took note of BO in the 1980s, around when ET had its record-breaking stay at the theaters. I definitely remember being a little disappointed at the BO performance of my favorite movie, DIE HARD. It did OK, but nowhere near what the best action movie of the decade should have! This was back when you had to read a newspaper or magazine like Variety to get any B.O. data.I joined the BOMojo boards when Spider-Man came out in 2002, inspired by its amazing run. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnetMan Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 After wading through the flame wars raging all around us, this thread is a breath of fresh air. Seeing all these names fraternizing and sharing origin stories... it reminds me of that scene in "Joyeux Noel" where the German and British soldiers stop fighting on Christmas Eve during WWII and play soccer together and have a time-out from the war.Ahhhhhhhhhhh.Now... once more into the breech, dear friends!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarSaber Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 (edited) Since 2005 I believe, I remember always looking at numbers on Yahoo movies that year, War of the Worlds is the earliest I can remember. I didn't start online discussions until TF2. BOM started soon after that Edited June 4, 2012 by TheLombax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impact Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 You know a friend and I have both been tracking it since 1993. We still talk about the box office quite a bit, both of us wait for the numbers even. Hey I was even his best man at his wedding! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockNrollaDIM Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Officially, since 2008.Unofficially, since probably 1999 or 2000. I remember before I joined BOM and really started tracking I would read the Yahoo! box office reports every Sunday and always had an interest in how a movie did at the box office.Even before getting into box office heavily in '08, for various films, ones that I loved, I would follow their box office. And for a long time I was especially interested in tracking music sales- Billboard, radio charts, mediabase, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impact Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 Seems like guys track it more then girls do. Though quite a bit of it probably has to do with the left side of the brain and math. Not putting sterotypes or anything, but it seems like guys fall under that field.My dad and my friend are the only 2 people I actually can talk about how much a movie made without feeling odd. Yeah other people do ask, and it looked great on my resume when I tried to work at Hastings. (Almost got that job, but then the man who was going to hire me got the call saying they were laying people off...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Men love the idea of money in the millions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
