Originally Posted By FerretAfros Dalmatians rolling in money!!! >>I have a few friends who want to see it but aren't huge fans, and they say they'll wait until things die down.<< This is me. I want to see it, but I have no interest in dealing with the crowds so I'm very willing to wait until it's more manageable. Additionally, most of the theaters near me are in big shopping centers (my 'normal' theater is in the biggest mall in the region), and I have no interest in going anywhere near them until after Christmas. I may try to see it over New Year's weekend, but if I miss that I'll have to wait 2 more weeks since I'm going to WDW; I've waited patiently for many years, so a few more weeks won't kill me. I suspect there are a lot more people in this situation than the Wall Street types realize. I would expect it to continue to have a very strong performance for at least 2-3 more weeks before starting to seriously taper off
Originally Posted By dagobert Two days until I finally see it. I can't wait anymore. I will see it in IMAX 3D OV and another time in the new Dolby Cinema with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. Unfortunately Dolby only shows the movie in German.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Estimates have it at 238 which could go up or down. But it's already the 7th highest grossing film this year
Originally Posted By ecdc >>I have no interest in going anywhere near them until after Christmas.<< Yep, that time of year when I avoid going out at all costs and feel like doing my grocery shopping at 3 a.m.
Originally Posted By oc_dean 517 million Internationally! That's insane for a film not even open one full week. And there's still countries it has yet to premiere in .. such as China.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros And in the mean time, The Good Dinosaur still hasn't passed $100M after 26 days in theaters (currently at $96.5M domestic, with about $93M international). Both films reportedly had $200M budgets, so it's really interesting to see how differently they're performing. There's really no comparison!
Originally Posted By dagobert It's bigger than big. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-12-21/iger-star-wars-opening-weekend-may-reach-247-million">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...-million</a>
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I saw it Saturday. I loved it. Every moment. All characters. Loved it!
Originally Posted By ecdc <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/a...sted.htm</a> Here's your friendly reminder that nothing will ever dethrone "Gone with the Wind." It's twice as long as the Force Awakens and played in a fraction of the theatres. But it's adjusted gross is 1.68 BILLION dollars. Also, it opened when the population was smaller. But it had the advantage of playing almost continuously (first as a road show feature) for three solid years. And of course this figure includes re-releases. But it's hard to fathom how anything comes close...except the original Star Wars, of course.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Are those figures just domestic/US figures? Not world wide? Star Wars made $517 million world wide it's opening weekend, so 1.68 billion doesn't seem that far out of reach, does it?
Originally Posted By Wendy Pleakley Gone with the Wind also played during a different era. Less competition, no home video, etc. Not to say the comparison isn't worth making, but it doesn't tell the whole story.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Are those figures just domestic/US figures?<< Yes. So to put it into context, it's as if Gone with the Wind grossed 1.68 billion and Star Wars has grossed 250 million. So Star Wars would have to make six times what it's already made to catch up. It is indeed a different era, and not all things are comparable. Which is why I say it will almost certainly never be topped--there is too much competition from other media sources, and while GWTW made its money over three years and a handful of re-releases, Star Wars will make most of its money in a single month. A better estimate would be tickets sold, and I expect those numbers just don't exist. But nearly every way you measure it, Gone with the Wind comes out ahead. It's hard to imagine anything more hyped than Star Wars, and with TV and so many advertising outlets, maybe there's not. But 300,000 people showed up to Atlanta for a three-day celebration when GWTW premiered. Hard to imagine a movie doing that today.
Originally Posted By ecdc Not only do I think adjusted for inflation grosses are a better measurement, it means that Avatar, a bad movie, gets knocked off the number one perch
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Gone with the Wind also played during a different era. Less competition, << Actually ... if you do a google search: Great films 1939. There was a lot. Then again .. that was the golden age of film, when the studio system was cranking out films like crazy. MGM's big motto - "A new movie every week." It was the film industry itself that had no competition. Before television. And far before Internet, personal computers, gaming, etc. Here's an interesting statistic - By 1946 an average of 90 million Americans were going to the movies .. for a population of 146 million. Today .. the country has 322m. Be interesting to know the statistic for how many movie goers there are per year, these days. And in the old days .. movies ran for months .. to a year or even longer. SW:TFA will disappear from movie screens by early February. Just 5-6 weeks from now. That's the average run of a movie now. And by beginning of summer .. it's out on video.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "Yes. So to put it into context, it's as if Gone with the Wind grossed 1.68 billion and Star Wars has grossed 250 million. So Star Wars would have to make six times what it's already made to catch up." It's unlikely, but I don't think impossible I think a lot of people are waiting to see this movie to try and stay clear of the crowds. I think it might be in theaters quite awhile, doing really well.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I don't think impossible I think a lot of people are waiting to see this movie to try and stay clear of the crowds.<< Hello! That's me. In my grumpy middle age, I'm content to wait it out. Of course, by waiting, I'm probably dooming myself to eventually sitting in the theater a row ahead of a guy dressed as Obi Wan whose seen the movie so many times by that point he's speaking the lines a few seconds ahead of the on screen actors. And while everyone so far has been awesome about no spoilers, I know that can't last forever, so the longer I wait to see it, the more likely I'll know at least some of the surprises.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Spoilers are due to happen K2oony. Imagine sitting in a restaurant, and some party next to you talks just loud enough and reveal something. Or being in line at the grocery store. Or your local Starbucks. Whatever it may be. Don't wait too long. There are a few surprises that would make big conversation pieces among people ... So, see it soon. I don't know where you live. In SoCal ... there are so many large mega plexes with theaters running it in not just one or two auditoriums but several. Then again .. if you live in a smaller town .. I don't know what your odds are of seeing it with fewer people. But don't wait too!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I do appreciate that people have been cool about not spoiling it, but it's not going to totally ruin it for me (I think) if I find out some big plot points ahead of time. I'm in the bay area, have lots of multiplexes around. If I were a huge Star Wars fan, I would have seen it by now. (I enjoyed the first three, but enjoyed the Indiana Jones movies far more).
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I would go ahead and see it now. The theater where I saw it was running it on a bunch of screens... this evening there are still 11 showings available. The theater was only half full when we saw it last Saturday.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>A better estimate would be tickets sold, and I expect those numbers just don't exist.<< I agree that this would be a much better metric, especially when things like Imax and 3D start to be factored in. Although they would probably have a tough time pinpointing the exact number of tickets sold, I would imagine they can figure out the average ticket price in a certain year and extrapolate it from there; supposedly that's how Box Office Mojo calculates its adjusted totals, rather than simply following the inflation directly The rest of the entertainment industry prefers to tell the number of units sold (gold/platinum albums, theater shows hitting 1,000 performances, etc) rather than their gross income. Although it is ultimately a business at the end of the day, it strikes me as odd that the film industry has always focused on dollar totals instead of the number of tickets sold >>But 300,000 people showed up to Atlanta for a three-day celebration when GWTW premiered. Hard to imagine a movie doing that today.<< The premiere of Cars in 2006 had 60,000 people in attendance, for what is generally considered to be an average-at-best film that had minimal pre-release hype. I'm sure that if a modern film were based on a book that was as popular at GWIT (say the original Harry Potter or Da Vinci Code) and the premiere were marketed properly, they could have a similarly huge bash. But that's just not how studios like to market themselves these days; it's all about a social media presence instead
