Box Office: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Shreds Records With $248 Million Debut

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Rayzah said:
SO..... Does this put to bed the notion that you have to open your movie in the summer for it to sale big? like thre is some study that said people only want to go to the movies in the summer:rudy:... can we start spreading these movies out and putting effort back into the storytelling now? I don't give a fukk about star wars but if this is the residual effect than I :salute:this franchise...
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Christmas has been an "event season" for awhile now.

But yeah...the calendar is definitely broadening. We've seen February come into play. We saw August come into play with Straight Outta Compton.

All these comics/franchise/geek films...they have to release sometimes, and studios want to avoid competing with each others tent-pole as much as they can....can't all release in July....:manny:

I'm personally wondering what the end-game is. Something is gonna have to give at some point. Marvel already on point, DC coming around soon, SW back, Universal with their FF and Jurassic series, Pixar, Fox isn't giving up on their comic-universe. And you'll always have the odd Inception/Gravity/Martian.

They're eventually gonna have to do more in India/Africa/South America. Wonder who will be the first to really push for those areas. Of course, studios can't control economies, so it's really just an issue of when these territories become more financially viable.
 
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Box Cutta said:
Christmas has been an "event season" for awhile now.

But yeah...the calendar is definitely broadening. We've seen February come into play. We saw August come into play with Straight Outta Compton.

All these comics/franchise/geek films...they have to release sometimes, and studios want to avoid competing with each others tent-pole as much as they can....can't all release in July....:manny:

I'm personally wondering what the end-game is. Something is gonna have to give at some point. Marvel already on point, DC coming around soon, SW back, Universal with their FF and Jurassic series, Pixar, Fox isn't giving up on their comic-universe. And you'll always have the odd Inception/Gravity/Martian.

They're eventually gonna have to do more in India/Africa/South America. Wonder who will be the first to really push for those areas. Of course, studios can't control economies, so it's really just an issue of when these territories become more financially viable.
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India doesn't care much about hollywood when they got Bollywood. China is the next frontier. The bigger their middle class gets, the more hollywood will cater to them. They love tentpole type movies. Avengers and CaptainAmerica/IronMan are killing it over there.
 
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Rayzah said:
SO..... Does this put to bed the notion that you have to open your movie in the summer for it to sale big? like thre is some study that said people only want to go to the movies in the summer:rudy:... can we start spreading these movies out and putting effort back into the storytelling now? I don't give a fukk about star wars but if this is the residual effect than I :salute:this franchise...
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Hollywood still has its indie/smaller budget movie schedule all fukked up.

Have The Revenant and The Hateful Eight opening on the same day. As well as Joy and Concussion that same day as well. Grand budapest hotel and boyhood should have proved last year that non tenpole movies don't have to open 4th quarter to do well or get awards recognition.

Even the month of October was packed this year and a lot of movies got lost in the midst of The Martian mania.
 
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FlyRy said:
Hollywood still has its indie/smaller budget movie schedule all fukked up.

Have The Revenant and The Hateful Eight opening on the same day. As well as Joy and Concussion that same day as well. Grand budapest hotel and boyhood should have proved last year that non tenpole movies don't have to open 4th quarter to do well or get awards recognition.

Even the month of October was packed this year and a lot of movies got lost in the midst of The Martian mania.
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Joy looks like a flop. Havent heard any buzz for that film at all.
 
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Box Cutta said:
Christmas has been an "event season" for awhile now.

But yeah...the calendar is definitely broadening. We've seen February come into play. We saw August come into play with Straight Outta Compton.

All these comics/franchise/geek films...they have to release sometimes, and studios want to avoid competing with each others tent-pole as much as they can....can't all release in July....:manny:

I'm personally wondering what the end-game is. Something is gonna have to give at some point. Marvel already on point, DC coming around soon, SW back, Universal with their FF and Jurassic series, Pixar, Fox isn't giving up on their comic-universe. And you'll always have the odd Inception/Gravity/Martian.

They're eventually gonna have to do more in India/Africa/South America. Wonder who will be the first to really push for those areas. Of course, studios can't control economies, so it's really just an issue of when these territories become more financially viable.
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X-men movies more than likely. Peep how Marvel/DC do their all-encompassing fight scenes, it's a far more epic feeling and makes the Avengers, BvS and, undoubtedly, JL and Infinity Wars feel like must-see events... whereas Fox seems to be using the same 'engine' and approach from 15 years ago. i.e., give MCU/DC Apocalypse, and he'd be Hulk/Doomsday size with the cgi pushed to the max to wow us with the action; as opposed to the ivan ooze get-up and stylistic character action poses over actual action (tho they did great with Blink in DoFP).

Plus, since Marvel, DC and Star Wars each market themselves as interconnected pieces continuously building to the 'ultimate payoff', i don't think they have to reinvent the wheel as much (just yet) compared to X-Men/FFour, Jurrassic, & FastFurious. Like, if Fast 7 and X:DoFP had been the swan songs for both franchises respectfully, i don't think anyone would've had a problem with that.
 
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shiiiiiiittttttttt.......8 is gonna blow this out the water, which is saying something....the reason: this movie is damn good....it has people wanting to see the next 1, unlike phantom menace.....
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empire didn't make more than ANH.

avengers 2 didn't make more than avengers 1.
 
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Box Cutta said:
They're eventually gonna have to do more in India/Africa/South America. Wonder who will be the first to really push for those areas. Of course, studios can't control economies, so it's really just an issue of when these territories become more financially viable.
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And yea, lowkey/not lowkey, Nigeria would be a gold mine if or when they could get their infrastructure to something reasonable.
 
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