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'Sith' Scores $50 Million on First Day in Theaters [Biggest Open in History]
Dow Jones Market Watch ^ | May 20, 2005

Posted on 05/20/2005 1:06:46 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

"Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" scored $50 million in first-day receipts at 3,661 theaters across the nation on Thursday, box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations said Friday. The take handily beats the one-day record of $44.8 million set last year by "Shrek 2." "Sith" is distributed by News Corp.'s (NWS) 20th Century Fox film unit.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; episodeiii; hollywood; lucas; maythedorksbewithyou; revengeofthesith; sith; starwar
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To: Types_with_Fist
The rumor I'm hearing is that there will be three more... same thing I heard around the time the third in the first batch opened.

That was the original vision by Lucas.

Episodes 4, 5 and 6 were to be Empire overcome by the Rebellion.
Episodes 1, 2 and 3 were to be the formation and early days of the Empire.
Episodes 7, 8 and 9 were to be the further adventures of Luke and his buddies with the backdrop of the attempted re-rise of the Empire.

41 posted on 05/20/2005 1:34:26 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you only knew the powerrrrr of the Tagline.)
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To: snarks_when_bored

"I love Kung Fu..."


42 posted on 05/20/2005 1:34:35 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: snarks_when_bored; MotleyGirl70
"Do you like Kung Fu?"

The Nazis had flair they made the Jews wear...

43 posted on 05/20/2005 1:35:44 PM PDT by Clemenza (Now it's dark...)
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To: Kenny Bunkport
More money in the pocket of Rupert Murdoch!

Due to Lucas's distribution deal, it's actually almost all money in Lucas's pocket.

Which is how it was paid for in the fist place. Since EMPIRE all of the STAR WARS movies have been self-financed.

44 posted on 05/20/2005 1:36:30 PM PDT by The Iguana
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To: Momaw Nadon

"It is the best movie I have ever seen, EVER!!!"


Personally, I thought that last Elvis movie on CBS belongs to the ages.


45 posted on 05/20/2005 1:37:30 PM PDT by macamadamia
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To: The Iguana

Fox doesn't have their logo on it for fun. They laid down some money to get that and will be getting plenty more money back.


46 posted on 05/20/2005 1:39:21 PM PDT by discostu (quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
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To: snarks_when_bored
People bought lots of pet rocks, too.

That statement pretty much sums it up. I'll go see the movie, but the one thing that bugs me (and a lot of my friends and acquaintances) is that the movies are so unforgettable. Quick--what happened in the last movie? Heck, I can't even remember if I'm supposed to know that Darth Vader is Luke's father (or is it the other way around?). Anyway, I'm there for the special effects on the big screen. The plot is negligible at this point.

47 posted on 05/20/2005 1:39:56 PM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: West Coast Conservative
I saw Star Wars in the theater when it first came out and the second one after that. Didn't see any others, but $50 million is a ton of money for the first day of a movie. That has to be towards the top of all-time movie sales.
48 posted on 05/20/2005 1:40:13 PM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: West Coast Conservative

Saw it, loved it.

There's 1 clunker line, but about 25 awesome ones. By *far* the best prequel, better than ROTJ. Hard to say, but it's up there with ESB and ANH.


49 posted on 05/20/2005 1:40:50 PM PDT by LAURENTIJ
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To: MotleyGirl70

I knew it! (smile)


50 posted on 05/20/2005 1:42:16 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: Borges
The highest grossing films these days are always kids films.

Well, not exactly always, but more than I would have guessed. Of the top 30 grossers, I see 8 that I'd call kids' films.

1 Titanic (1997)
2 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
3 Shrek 2 (2004)
4 E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
6 Spider-Man (2002)
7 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
8 Spider-Man 2 (2004)
9 The Passion of the Christ (2004)
10 Jurassic Park (1993)
11 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
12 Finding Nemo (2003)
13 Forrest Gump (1994)
14 The Lion King (1994)
15 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
16 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
17 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
18 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
19 Independence Day (1996)
20 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
21 The Sixth Sense (1999)
22 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
23 Home Alone (1990)
24 The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
25 Meet the Fockers (2004)
26 Shrek (2001)
27 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
28 Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
29 Jaws (1975)
30 The Incredibles (2004)

51 posted on 05/20/2005 1:42:16 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: West Coast Conservative

I believe Al Capone experienced revenge of the "Siph". Sith must really be something.


52 posted on 05/20/2005 1:42:29 PM PDT by dc-zoo
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To: NCSteve

"When the best performance in a movie is turned in by a CGI (Yoda), you know the film is in deep trouble."

You mean like Gollum too, right?


53 posted on 05/20/2005 1:43:58 PM PDT by LAURENTIJ
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To: randog
I'll go see the movie, but the one thing that bugs me (and a lot of my friends and acquaintances) is that the movies are so unforgettable.

I think you meant "so forgettable", but I take your point!

54 posted on 05/20/2005 1:44:28 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: NCSteve
The film has a marginal plot line, Lucas' absolutely awful dialog, overwhelming special effects, and a surprisingly awful performance by Natalie Portman.

It ws no more marginal of a plot than any of the first three movies.

In some ways, maybe better. It's STAR WARS, not Felini or David Lean.

As for Portman, she has turned in decent performances in CLOSER and GARDEN STATE. It's more likely the script and the directing. And the fact that she apparently was feuding with Lucas.

Whoever told Hayden Christensen he could act needs to be publicly pilloried.

Likewise, Christiansen has turnedf in creditable performance in other flicks, like LIFE AS A HOUSE. He was better here than in CLONES, I thought, if still a little wooden at times.

When the best performance in a movie is turned in by a CGI (Yoda), you know the film is in deep trouble.

Actually I thought Ian McDiarmid - as Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine - stole the movie. Once he was disformed he was too over-the-top - but before that's, he's superb. Clearly the best actor of the series.

In sum, REVENGE OF THE SITH is, at its best, as good as anything in EMPIRE or A NEW HOPE. People forget that many of the things they decry in the new movies were present in the original trilogy in some degree - trite dialogue, choppy scene cutaways, flat acting. Fortunately it also had brilliant characterizations in Ford/Solo and Fisher/Leia to overcome those weaknesses.

55 posted on 05/20/2005 1:44:29 PM PDT by The Iguana
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To: snarks_when_bored

Thank you for that correction; yes, "forgettable".


56 posted on 05/20/2005 1:46:33 PM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: The Iguana
And the fact that she apparently was feuding with Lucas.

Details?

57 posted on 05/20/2005 1:49:22 PM PDT by Sir Gawain (Jeb Pilate and the Republican Congress: Stood by while someone died)
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To: MotleyGirl70

"I wouldn't say I'm missing it, Bobs"


58 posted on 05/20/2005 1:49:52 PM PDT by Blzbba (Let them hate us as long as they fear us - Caligula)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The novelizations of 7,8 and 9 are pretty interesting, and fun. Only Lucas won't direct them, at least according to him. That might be for the better.
59 posted on 05/20/2005 1:50:32 PM PDT by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Can you suggest the order of watching all episodes? I droppred out after Return of the Jedi.


60 posted on 05/20/2005 1:51:46 PM PDT by DTA
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