Posted on 07/08/2006 11:52:48 AM PDT by Gribbles141
$55,500,000 for Friday passes Star Wars Ep. III for single day gross.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/?page=open&p=.htm
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Actually that's very easily refuted:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/
If you go to the Opening Weekend tab on that same link you'll see you'll see that Wrath of Khan won the opening weekend dirby with $14 mil in revenue, and if you devide that by the $2.94 average ticket price you'll get a total attendance of 4.8 million people. Now if you take the $55.5 mil reported for Friday for Pirates and devide that by the $6.40 projected for the current average ticket price you'll get a total attendance of 8.6 million people. So even on tickets Pirates is winning at least some of the historical battle. And really that makes sense, there are many more screens in theaters these days, than there were before and blockbusters wind up on many more screens than they used to. You often didn't get true "national" openings back in the old days, instead movies would cycle through the markets, smaller markets like Tucson where I live were frequently 1 or 2 weeks behind the large markets like LA and New York. Now with 20 screen cinemas replacing 4 screen cinemas there's more room for truly national openings and therefore more opportunity for people to watch the movie on opening weekend. Of course producing 4 times as many movies as they used to there's not enough room for staying power, it's all opening weekend or bust these days.
So far you're 0-fer, quit while you're behind.
Oops, in rewrite I accidentally deleted the part that directed you to the Total Attendance in Millions column on the link, that shows a generally upward trend from 1980 through 2002 with some tailing off lately. Though this year is doing well in the block buster market so the tailing off could end.
But is he still for truth, justice, and the American way? ;)
Just came back from seeing it!
A very enjoyable film, with a very surprising ending indeed!
It must have been good; I didn't get up to go to the bathroom even though I had to, and I forgot I had a headache for 2-1/2 hours.
"Are you sure it isn't 'pigs', or do you reserve that for Israelis?"
You missed my sarcasm, I was referring to his previous comments about Americans.
***Spoiler alert***
The subplot is the big eeeeevil corporation (Dutch East India Co.) that wants to take over the world's oceans.
***End spoiler alert***
Dear Dominic Harr,
"I respect why you'd say that."
Thanks!
"Personally, I don't care what the pizza guy says about George Bush to some reporter doing a 'man on the street' interview. I just want him to deliver my pizza hot, and on time."
I don't care about what the pizza guy says, because, frankly, no one listens to him, anyway.
However, actors have natural audiences. I don't pay Mr. Depp for his political opinions, either. So, when I have to hear them, and they give evidence of gross stupidity as well as lack of patriotism, I decide that I don't want to pay him at all, anymore, for anything.
But that's me. I'm not going to complain if other folks want to go see his movies.
I buy things from folks with whom I disagree, as well. But most of those folks don't get on a large, public soapbox and shove it down my throat, either.
Conversely, I don't make a practice of shoving my views down the throats of my clients, either. And I'd expect to lose business if I commonly discussed my political views with most of my clients.
sitetest
Now you are just delusional...
>>>So far you're 0-fer, quit while you're behind.
Nothing delusional here except maybe you. You said ticket prices had gone up $2 since SW3 came out, they've only gone up about 10 cents; you said SW3 didn't do well, it won the year; you said SW3 came in 6th of the SW series, it came in 5th in ticket sales and inflation adjusted revenue; you said attendance to cinema has dropped every single year for 50 years (going even further to say that this was irrefutable), it's gone up most of the last 25 years (refuted); you said modern openings don't get anywhere near the draw movies used to when they opened, I showed that modern openings actually do get larger attendance than the old days. Six statements made as fact, six statements that were wrong. Oh-fer-six.
Now the only question is are you man enough to admit you were wrong, or are you going to continue down the path you just took and resort to insults and childishness?
132million opening weekend is very impressive though for POTC2! I enjoyed it but not as much as the first. The wifey and sister in law thought it was a lot better than the first one though..
I grew up in a church like that. Parents left it when I was around 12 thankfully.
SW3 had a pretty good multiplier and went onto to gross $380million in the US (3.6x opening weekend was its). The TPM had great legs which was expected with the long time since the last star wars opening. The 2nd one was the one that didn't have a good run and ended well below 300m.
I even liked Depp back in the "21 Jump Street" days. LOLOL
Uh, why do you start off your posts with "Dear?"
What passes for entertainment in your household? Probably "World Cup Soccer."
Wasn't Star Wars 3 just last year?
I'm a super religious snob, and I love movies!
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