2015 will be a good year for movies

[Cheesebeef]

There is an adjusted gross on Box Office Mojo, that puts Gone With the Wind #1 all time...Star Wars: A New Hope is #2.

This sucker might be the first movie in like 40 years to fall in the top five all time adjusted for inflation. That's a monumental achievement.

 

[Cheesebeef]

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Does this work? 4 weeks of Jar Jar

Haha... Yeah. That works. Let me figure out how to change it. I'm computer illiterate.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Haha... Yeah. That works. Let me figure out how to change it. I'm computer illiterate.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Domestic or both Domestic/Int'l?

It won't even come close to 470 Domestic.

'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Box Office: $149M Weekend, $540M US, $1.09 Billion Worldwide

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...-149m-weekend-540m-us-1-09-billion-worldwide/

In just 10 days of domestic play, J.J. Abrams’s sci-fi sequel has earned $540.2 million, putting it ahead of The Dark Knight ($534m) to become the fifth-biggest movie of all time in America.

 

[Zeno]

I wonder how much it will make in China when it opens there next week.

Will Batman Vs. Superman come anywhere close to this? It is opening when movies historically do better than December releases. Is this year with JW and TFA a sign of things to come with what to expect from blockbusters now?

 

[Cheesebeef]

I wonder how much it will make in China when it opens there next week.

Will Batman Vs. Superman come anywhere close to this? It is opening when movies historically do better than December releases. Is this year with JW and TFA a sign of things to come with what to expect from blockbusters now?

No way. The first Superman got mixed reaction, the trailers have gotten mixed reactions and there hasn't been a 30 year wait for that movie the way there was for awakens.

As far as what Jurasdic World did, I'm still scratching my head at how well that movie did. Star Wars I get... 30 year wait, out of this world trailers and it gives every one warm nostalgic fuzzies for the original series while being a lot of fun, but World? Man, that movie was mediocre in every way. Even the FX I thought were done better in re original.

 

[Stout]

No way. The first Superman got mixed reaction, the trailers have gotten mixed reactions and there hasn't been a 30 year wait for that movie the way there was for awakens.

As far as what Jurasdic World did, I'm still scratching my head at how well that movie did. Star Wars I get... 30 year wait, out of this world trailers and it gives every one warm nostalgic fuzzies for the original series while being a lot of fun, but World? Man, that movie was mediocre in every way. Even the FX I thought were done better in re original.

Mediocre is being very, very kind. It made Vincent D into a bad actor, somehow.

 

[Zeno]

So any guesses of best box office for 2016?

Superman V Batman?
Captain America: Civil War?
X-Men: Apocalypse?
Independence Day: Resurgence?
Star Wars: Rogue One?

Maybe something else...maybe even likely something else.

 

[Chaplin]

So any guesses of best box office for 2016?

Superman V Batman?
Captain America: Civil War?
X-Men: Apocalypse?
Independence Day: Resurgence?
Star Wars: Rogue One?

Maybe something else...maybe even likely something else.

Either Captain America or Rogue One. The only other movie that can come close is X-Men. Both Independence Day and SvB won't be huge juggernauts.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Either Captain America or Rogue One. The only other movie that can come close is X-Men. Both Independence Day and SvB won't be huge juggernauts.

I feel like Cap 3 will be the biggest breadwinner of that group, with SvB coming in second. Independence Day won't be huge, IMO. I'm betting it's bit of a letdown. If Will Smith were back in it, I'd say it could have been a huge smash, maybe not Jurassic World numbers, but probably biggest of the year. But without him, it feels like just another cash grab.

I'm super curious to see how Rogue One does. That's a Star Wars movie without Han, Luke, Leia. I'm betting it tops out at 200 domestic.

overall though, I think we're gonna see box office numbers way down from this year, likely on par with last year. And the biggest movie of the year probably ends up being Finding Dory. But 2017 will be massive - Star Wars 8, Avatar 2, Justice League, Guardians 2, Furious 8, Despicable Me 3... all those movies will be monstrous smashes.

 

[Zeno]

I'm super curious to see how Rogue One does. That's a Star Wars movie without Han, Luke, Leia. I'm betting it tops out at 200 domestic.

I'm curious too and don't expect it to approach the box office success of the Episodes BUT if it brings back Vader I think it will get some fairly large box office returns.

I know there haven't been much said about him being in the movie but it is about a group of rebels trying to steal the plans to the Empires ultimate weapon and at that time the Emperors enforcer was Vader. You would think Disney would want to get him involved somehow to drum up the interest.

There were rumors sometime back of some pro wrestler getting prepared to wear the suit (might have been BS) and James Earl Jones has already been working with Disney doing voice for the Rebels cartoon...so I don't think it is too much of a stretch.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens passes Frozen to become the #8 movie of all-time

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...e-the-8-movie-of-all-time#QCiML0lYxC1cDfQO.99

Star Wars: The Force Awakens added $28.1 million domestically and $36.7 million overseas on Wednesday for a total of $64.8 million for the day. The Lucasfilm release has now earned $629 million in North America and $664.1 million internationally for a worldwide total of $1.293 billion.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has now become the highest-grossing film domestically in Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures history, incredibly passing in only 13 days the entire $623.4 million total gross of Marvel’s The Avengers from 2012. In North America, the film is already the #2 movie of 2015 and #4 movie of all-time. Internationally, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is already the #5 movie of 2015 to date. Globally, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the #4 movie of 2015 to date and has now become the #8 movie of all-time (passing Frozen‘s $1.277 billion).

 

[Cheesebeef]

I'm curious too and don't expect it to approach the box office success of the Episodes BUT if it brings back Vader I think it will get some fairly large box office returns.

I know there haven't been much said about him being in the movie but it is about a group of rebels trying to steal the plans to the Empires ultimate weapon and at that time the Emperors enforcer was Vader. You would think Disney would want to get him involved somehow to drum up the interest.

There were rumors sometime back of some pro wrestler getting prepared to wear the suit (might have been BS) and James Earl Jones has already been working with Disney doing voice for the Rebels cartoon...so I don't think it is too much of a stretch.

Vader would definitely juice it, especially if he has a large part in the movie, but ultimately i'd still be surprised to see it break 200 domestic.

 

[BillsCarnage]

they're estimating this sucker will gross 565 million... BY SUNDAY! That's the 4th largest grossing film of all time... IN NINE DAYS. And I thought 470 million was way out of reach... talk about being WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY off!

A little more perspective.

With an updated gross of $764.4 million thru Wednesday, Jan. 7, Star Wars: the Force Awakens is officially the highest grossing film of all time in the domestic market. It took a mere 20 days for the film to surpass the previous record of $760.5M held by Avatar, which not only took a total of 318 days to achieve, but was spread across two releases.