Monday Numbers | The Hobbit - 6.95M | Django Unchained - 5.2M

[Moviedweeb]

http://boxofficemojo.com/people/?view=Director&sort=sumgross&p=.htmsee who is box-office king:

Cameron has been active for less years but they are both box office kings, big time! Spielberg created the first summer blockbuster with Jaws and many of his films have been the highest grossing films of their time or of their genres–Jaws, Raiders, ET, JP, SPR. These are all monumental achievements and set huge precedents. Cameron, on the other hand, arguably has the highest grossing theatrical release of all time when considering tickets sold and competition from home media. To follow this with Avatar is astonishing. To have the two highest grossing films, domestic and worldwide, and to be the only director with not just one but two films grossing over $2b worldwide is nuts. Spielberg was the box office king, but I think the reigns have been handed down to Cameron.

[lilmac]

not as good a hold as National Treasure 2 in 2007 but better than I Am Legend

Is $300m a near lock?

[iceroll]

Hoping for a great Les Mis number today!

[Moviedweeb]

What a stupid post, and it's gonna ruin this thread.

And we all took the bait lol

[UptoLight]

Spielberg has made 20 movies more than Cameron. And Cameron is still the third with 7 movies only...

If Cameron released movies like Spielberg in every 1, 2 or 3 years they wouldn't do like Spielberg's. Cameron's strength is his 10 years gap between his films.

[Fake]

DU dropped 43%. Pretty close to IAL drop.If it follows IAL from here on, it should finish with 129m. If it gets nominated, then it will gross more.

[fishstick]

Is $300m a near lock?

It`s a lock. Run between between IAL and NT2 locks it.

[Olive]

Tom Hooper's Les Miserables pulled ahead of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained on New Year's Eve, grossing $6.3 million on Monday to place No. 2 behind The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and pushing its domestic total to $73 million.

[Olive]

Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher has done solid business, but unspectacular business, since rolling out Dec. 21. The Paramount pic grossed $3.4 million on Monday for a total $47.7 million.

[fishstick]

And we all took the bait lol

Well, duh. Someone is trying to put down Cameron and Nolan. of course that they won`t sit undefended on this forum.

[Fake]

Is $300m a near lock?

At this point, it is headed for EXACTLY 300M. Tomorrow's jump will tell us more.

[#ED]

Cameron seriously gets lucky with his movies. They're not that good. Spielberg is probably the most respected director of our time.

[#ED]

Nolan shouldn't be in this thread at all. He is still considered new.Nolan and Quentin Tarantino are honestly the best directors at the moment(IMO).

[fishstick]

If Cameron released movies like Spielberg in every 1, 2 or 3 years they wouldn't do like Spielberg's. Cameron's strength is his 10 years gap between his films.

Sorry but no. Decade-long gap is not a strength because your name doesn`t get publicity during hiatus time. Short turnover between movies keeps one hot. So Cameron was taking a huge risk here because he was way hotter right after Titanic (think PJ after Shriekapoo Oscar sweep) than he was when he started Avatar production, 10 years later. It`s a tstament to his vision that Fox backed up Avatar.

[dashrendar44]

If Cameron released movies like Spielberg in every 1, 2 or 3 years they wouldn't do like Spielberg's. Cameron's strength is his 10 years gap between his films.

And he makes as much in one movie that all Spielberg's movies in that 10 years gap. Edited January 1, 2013 by dashrendar44

[Moviedweeb]

Well, duh. Someone is trying to put down Cameron and Nolan. of course that they won`t sit undefended on this forum.

I think simply ignoring outrageous comments is always the better option but I can't help but find the humor in such statement so easily riling up Box office enthusiasts. I am guilt of it too but it's just funny–like going into a basketball forum and saying Michael Jordan sucked. Obviously a ridiculous statement but to watch people give logical and serious responses to such a statement would be funny.

[Fake]

Tom Hooper's Les Miserables pulled ahead of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained on New Year's Eve, grossing $6.3 million on Monday to place No. 2 behind The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and pushing its domestic total to $73 million.

It may again fall behind on Tuesday. Both should gross around 7.2-7.3m today.

[fishstick]

Cameron seriously gets lucky with his movies. They're not that good. Spielberg is probably the most respected director of our time.

Luck has nothing to do with Cameron. The guy dived over to Titanic wreckage to get never-seen-before footage for that movie and practically invented improved 3D for Avatar. Also, you may not be the fan but he does something better than anyone in blockbuster business - his movies have strong emotional center around which he builds some amazing hardware. But emotion is #1 thing in his movies. He never puts it on the backbruner in favor of pumping action and spectacle.

[Moviedweeb]

Cameron seriously gets lucky with his movies. They're not that good. Spielberg is probably the most respected director of our time.

He has a unique ability to tell stories with universal themes that resonate worldwide; moreso than any other director possibly IMO.

[Hiccup]

solid numbers all around