# Guess The Opening 3 Day Box Office Gross For New Star Wars Film! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908 "2005-05-15T05:29:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/1 "2005-05-15T05:29:15Z")
Some of you may have heard that the new Star Wars film is opening this weekend. Thursday night at midnight, to be exact. So let’s predict the opening weekend box office gross, domestic US only, of the film. We will use the total gross amount listed at [www.hollywoodreporter.com](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com) on the following Monday First prize is the glory of being known world-wide as the Grand Master Of SDMB Predictions! Second prize is zip. My prediction: $84,000,000 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/2 "2005-05-15T13:12:28Z")
[Failed attempt to do the same thing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315799&highlight=star+wars) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/3 "2005-05-15T14:09:43Z")
About a hundred dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/4 "2005-05-15T22:36:48Z")
Box office has been weak for about 3 months now. But Star Wars? 88 mil ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/5 "2005-05-15T23:21:21Z")
Shouldn’t it be a four-day weekend? I’ve got tickets at E3 on Thursday. So it would be Thursday-Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/6 "2005-05-16T01:29:16Z")
I fell that the force is strong with this one… … 123 million. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/7 "2005-05-16T01:33:41Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > Shouldn’t it be a four-day weekend? I’ve got tickets at E3 on Thursday. So it would be Thursday-Sunday. It starts here with the last showing of the cineplexes on Thursday night. Which is ACTUALLY Friday morning, since the movie starts at 12:01am Friday. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/8 "2005-05-16T03:10:08Z")
_sigh_ **Sampiro** , for you, anything. 95 million. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-opening-3-day-box-office-gross-for-new-star-wars-film/303908/9 "2005-05-16T03:11:47Z")
Dammit. How could I do that? I looked straight at your name, **DMark** , and “ **Sampiro** ” flowed from my fingertips. Not really like it mattered anyways, since it was really more of a shameless flirt than anything, and I’m probably never going to have any contact outside the boards with either of you, ever. So nyah.