Yeah, but bear in mind that the bulk of tickets for opening weekend sell in advance online. And a crap-load of the tickets for opening night sold about two weeks ago. They likely got most of the Sunday revenue last night from people buying online.
Yeah, but that’s a tough one to figure. Mostly because the number includes all the releases it’s had over the decades prior to the release of home video. It’s a complicated calculation.
Over the years or home video and streaming, I used an inflation calculator on Avatar and come out with the $2.7 converts to:
$3.248B in inflation adjusted dollars.
So it’s on pace. It may be a close thing.
In unadjusted dollars, though, I feel pretty good about passing Avatar. I’ve got tickets to see it again next weekend.
I keep thinking how since SW:TFA came out in 2015, the top release has been Black Panther. Now, 4 and half years later, something has come out that will beat not just the latter but the former as well.
Almost all the holdovers dropped quite more than usual. Except for Captain Marvel which dropped just 11% due to fan crossover.
Way down the list is the Hellboy reboot at 14. Someone thought keeping that in 927 theaters was a good idea. It got a per theater average of $383 this weekend, its 3rd. It dropped 91% from last weekend. Not exactly in the same money making category.
I don’t recall having any difficulty getting tickets to Avatar, TFA, Black Panther, or any other movie in a long time. In the DC area, I had to get tickets for Endgame 2 days in advance for a 1 am showing that eventually sold out. Obviously, that’s not quite indicative of the whole country or this would easily beat all records.
I experienced the same. I was simply unable to go see Endgame at my local theater; all of the showings were sold out within thirty minutes of the tickets being available for online sales.
Box Office Mojo now has weekend “actuals”: $357,115,007.
Holy hopping Heathcliff. That’s a lot of popcorn.
That’s just barely under $100M more than the old record.
It could drop 70% next weekend and still make over $100M.
Endgame opened Wednesday in Manila - the Philippines, actually - with some midnight showings. Multiplexes have filled their screens with it, some having been running it 24 hours. Before the actual weekend had even arrived, Endgame had already broken local box office records.
I’ll digress a bit to give you an idea of the sheer density of malls and cinemas here. Within a twenty minute walk of my house there is a relatively small mall with four screens. Within spitting distance, there are three larger malls, including the second largest in the Philippines, ninth largest in the world. Down the road in the opposite direction there’s another mall complex. Go a bit further and there’s a bigger - well you get the idea. Everyone is showing Endgame.
When I finally took my parents to see it on Monday first showing we were lucky to actually get seats at our desired viewing time. All four screens were sold out. When we came out, I checked the monitors and the next screenings were also sold out. It was probably like that the entire day. I’ve never seen anything like it.
And A:E has a first: it has not broken a record.
It earned “merely” $36+M domestic on Monday. So Black Panther still holds the record for a Monday total (and in February of all things) at $40+M.
This suggests a fairly big frontloading for a sequel of this type, etc. Perhaps its total isn’t going to be really all that amazing.
Oddly, BoxOfficeMojo has been slow in updating its list of all time 3,4,5, etc. day record totals. By day 3 it had already surpassed the old records for 4, and 5 days. It now holds the record for 6 and 7 days as well. Do they think the movie’s going to bring in negative money this week?
That was President’s Day 2018, FWIW.
Thanks, all I saw was that it was a bit after Valentine’s Day which wouldn’t have caused any box office effect for a Monday at all. Forgot about that other day.
And a similar thing has happened with not having a record Tuesday. A:E brought in $33M which doesn’t beat SW:TFA at $37M. That Tuesday was 3 days before Xmas so a lot of people out of school, etc.
The total is now well over $400M setting a new record reaching that in 5 days vs. the old one of 8 days held by SW:TFA. Remember when $100M total was considered implausible enough to be used as a bit in S.O.B.?
A record Wednesday is ridiculously out of reach as that belongs to the opening of a Twilight Saga film.
So mainly “fastest to” records plus the question of can it knock off the crappy Avatar movie off its worldwide total perch?
GwtW made 189 million dollars in its initial run. That’s 1939 dollars. It’s subsequent rereleases have only added a little over ten million to the total. Source: Box Office Mojo.
Also your Avatar total is for international money while GwtW only tracks domestic releases. So you can’t really compare the two. Domestically Avatar is about 760 million domestic. BOM adds about another 100 million to account for inflation. Accounting for inflation worldwide is very tricky and doesn’t track with ordinary inflation. And it’s useless for discussing older movies as the international market wasn’t even a thing.
Regarding the box office results for Gone with the Wind, Box Office Office Mojo only mentions re-releases in 1989, 1998 and 2019. But the Wikipedia article mentions earlier re-releases in 1942, 1947, 1954, 1961, 1967, 1971, and 1974. So it’s unclear what’s included in the $189 million figure.
To give it a little perspective, all other movies this weekend made $44,950,065.
I don’t mean individually. That was their combined total.
I had sensed that it might reach 90% of the box office, but it fell a bit short.
This is not good news for a lot of people. Modest films are being pushed out of theatrical release entirely. They go streaming after the festival circuit. Amazon and Netflix type companies are buying up films at festivals instead of the traditional small studios. And the small indie studios? Well, that was an interesting chapter in cinema history.
It’s getting closer and closer to the old Henry Ford line: You can see any movie you want in the theater as as long as it’s a (Disney) blockbuster.
I don’t think that’s entirely true; last weekend my twenty-screen multiplex had this movie on only nine screens when I watched it Saturday morning. So the others were available for smaller films. And I’ve seen plenty of smaller, even arthouse films there and in the specialty theaters. Usually, though, they avoid the brief windows when theaters are dominated by the blockbuster comic book movies. And there’s always an audience for a movie aimed at grown-ups.
Just wanted to add that, one week in, Mojo now lists it as Top 15 all-time domestic and Top 5 all-time worldwide. So even if it flops in Week Two, it’s still huge.
(I’m just kidding; who the heck would think it’ll flop in Week Two?)
Blockbusters are really the only films that I want to see on the big screen anyways, Amazon and Netflix are exactly where i want to see any other type of film.
When wasn’t that true? The big studios used to own the theater chains. How many independent films do you think they showed? And even when the studios sold off their theaters, the theaters stuck with studio-made films. Theatrical release has always been a bottleneck for indie films.
At least now there are alternative venues, like streaming services, cable channels, and home release. This is probably the best time we’ve ever had for making independent films.
Me too. I still like watching smaller films, but going to the theater is a pain in the ass and I only want to do it for things that HAVE to be seen on the big screen. I rarely see anything not in an Imax theater and everything else can wait for streaming where I can sit comfortably in my couch with a drink and snack I didn’t overpay for and pause it when I want to take a bathroom break.
Yeah, gotta admit. I adored Paterson. But absolutely nothing would be added by my watching it in a theater instead of my living room. It’s not the sort of film such would matter for.