Originally Posted By CuriousConstance On Thursday, The Force Awakens became the highest-grossing domestic Disney film of all time.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://variety.com/2015/film/news/jj-abrams-star-wars-episode-viii-1201667205/">http://variety.com/2015/film/n...1667205/</a> J.J. Abrams Already Regrets Not Directing ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ “He read it and said something he never, ever says,” Grunberg, who plays X-Wing pilot Snap Wexley in “The Force Awakens,” told The Washington Post. “He said, ‘It’s so good, I wish I were making it.’ He may have said something one time on ‘Lost’ with Damon [Lindelof], but I never hear him express regret like that.”
Originally Posted By FerretAfros We passed $700M domestic on Saturday. As of Sunday, TFA is just $18.3M behind Avatar's domestic total; so far, TFS hasn't had a day less than $20M, so I think it's safe to say that it has passed the domestic record by now (even though it hasn't been tallied yet) This is very impressive, until you start to look at the worldwide gross, where it's currently #6. Nearly half (49.1%) of its total has come from domestic audiences. It's true that there are several places where it hasn't opened yet (including China), but that's a huge anomaly in the box office totals. The only other top-20 films that are over 40% domestic are The Avengers (41%) and Dark Knight Rises (41.3%) The last couple days' proceeds should push it into #4, ahead of The Avengers and Furious 7, and Jurassic World at #3 certainly seems within striking distance ($1.669B). Titanic is more than $600M away from the current total, which seems questionable, and I'd wager that Avatar (which has nearly double TFA's worldwide gross) is pretty much out of reach at this point <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/">http://www.boxofficemojo.com/a...e/world/</a> So many films in recent years have focused on the huge tentpole/blockbuster concept that can easily be shown around the world. While this is clearly profitable approach, I wonder if TFA's balance will cause more of a shift toward domestic audiences in the future, or if the rest of the world is just adopting Star Wars more gradually than in the US
Originally Posted By dagobert I also think that Avatar is out of reach. My parents have seen Avatar because of the 3D, but they would never watch a Star Wars movie.
Originally Posted By hopemax Fun with numbers. I just was looking at the countries where Avatar grossed at least $50 million dollars. There are 11 of them: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain and the UK. Then I took their Force Awakens numbers and divided them by their Avatar numbers. Far and away the winner is the UK, which has already grossed about 89% of its Avatar numbers $134 million so far for TFA, and only $150 million for Avatar. Considering how much connection Star Wars has to the UK, not a surprise. Also TFA is performing very well in Germany and Australia where TFA has pulled in 50% of Avatar's total in Germany and 48% in Australia. France is at 38% and Brazil is at 36%. I'm not sure what the percentage has to be to represent performing well against Avatar. Considering, its now only it's 3rd week, I'm guessing that collecting at least a third of Avatar's numbers is decent. So the possible underperformers are: Italy at 29%, Japan at 27%, Russia at 17%, South Korea at 22% and Spain at 23%. The big one there is Russia. Avatar brought in $117 million, so for TFA to only have brought in $20 million, that is a disappointment. Of course, the largest foreign box office totals for Avatar did come from China at $204 million. Hong Kong's total is 39%, I don't know if that provides any sort of indicator for how well TFA might do.
Originally Posted By Mr X I have yet to meet a Japanese person who's seen it, and when I inquire further, everyone either has no plans to see it, or else they'll go "someday, when there are no crowds" (which means DVD really). It's really not such a biggie here, all told, although the merchandising is all over the place right now as expected. I must say, I was surprised at how little Tokyo Disney was hyping it up. And don't get me started on how much Star Tours pissed me off (check my topic in the Tokyo section for that rant).
Originally Posted By dagobert With surpassing Avatar Episode VII is now the highest grossing movie in the North American box office.
Originally Posted By PetesDraggin I lived in Brazil when The Phantom Menace came out. I saw it on opening day, and I was one of 10 or so people in the theater. Star Wars isn't a cultural phenomenon in Brazil like it is in the US, so I'm not surprised it hasn't hit Avatar-like numbers down there.
Originally Posted By PetesDraggin On that same note, I was also in Brazil when Titanic came out. That was HUGE down there. The town I lived in didn't have a movie theater and the closest one was about 30-40 miles away, which was about an hour-long bus ride away. I saw it a few weeks after it came out and was one of the last people I knew that saw it. I wasn't there for Avatar, but since Titanic was so popular, I'm not surprised Avatar made even more money.
Originally Posted By hopemax > Star Wars isn't a cultural phenomenon in Brazil like it is in the US, so I'm not surprised it hasn't hit Avatar-like numbers down there. < But it basically has. I was comparing 3 weeks of TFA release to total run for Avatar. In three weeks TFA has earned $21.2 million in Brazil. Avatar after week 3 had $20.9. Due to inflation Avatar would be "more successful" but not by a significant margin.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Star Wars TFA has opening day of $33 million in China... biggest opening ever there.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Do you think Disney is hiring right now for people to help rake in all this dough?
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Do you think Disney is hiring right now for people to help rake in all this dough?
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I just sent off my resume. Under "references", I put "Jim in Merced", CA. I'm a shoo in!!!
Originally Posted By dagobert Over here in Austria TFA didn't make it into the top 5 of 2015, but here they count the attendance stupidly, because SW accounts for 2015 and 2016. They don't count the whole run, instead every Euro spent until December 31st counts for 2015 and the rest for 2016.
Originally Posted By Kidz-n-k9s Saw it for a 2nd time this past Saturday. It was even better the 2nd time since I was able to study the details and not worry about the story.
Originally Posted By ecdc I read the novelization over the weekend. (I've apparently gone from being "meh" about this to being a fan.) The added details are fun and interesting. A few lines jump out, including Kylo Ren telling Rey "It *is* you," when she summons the lightsaber to herself at the end. He clearly knows who she is.
