The Force Awakens Box Office Thread: $1,73B

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Lawlight on 03 January 2016

Insidb said:

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StarOcean said:
It's sad that I'm more entertained by the sales of a movie right now than the sales of systems

It's even sadder that the box office of the movie is more entertaining than the movie itself.

According to Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of people disagree with you.

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Chris Hu on 03 January 2016

DM235 said:

I came across an interesting infographic in Businessweek. The box office revenue projection for TFA is:

$734m domestic (USA and Canada)
$1,650m international

That makes the total estimate $2,384m (not enough to beat Avatar).

FYI, they also expect the following:

$500m from Disney Infinity 3.0
$780m from Star Wars Battlefront (which means about 13m copies)
$235 for TV licensing domestically (USA and Canada)
$214m for TV licensing internationally
$458m for DVD/streaming
$5,000m for merchandise

That brings the total projected revenue for TFA to $9.6b. Not bad for the first movie in the trilogy.

It will easily do more then $734 domestically but it might not get to $ 1,650 internationally.

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ReimTime on 03 January 2016

Lawlight said:

StarOcean said:
It's sad that I'm more entertained by the sales of a movie right now than the sales of systems

It's even sadder that the box office of the movie is more entertaining than the movie itself.

Pardon me, I'm not trying to be rude as I am being totally honest here - I've never seen you praise something, is there anything you do like?

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DM235 said:

$5,000m for merchandise

Doesn't surprise me lol they're really going all out

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ReimTime said:

Lawlight said:

StarOcean said:
It's sad that I'm more entertained by the sales of a movie right now than the sales of systems

It's even sadder that the box office of the movie is more entertaining than the movie itself.

Pardon me, I'm not trying to be rude as I am being totally honest here - I've never seen you praise something, is there anything you do like?

Plenty - they're just far and few between since the majority of movies/TV shows are just bad. This year I gave In The Heart of the Sea, The Martian and MI: Rogue Nation 7s. Admitedly, it wasn't a great year for blockbuster movies.

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It's broken the record for biggest New Year's Day, was Avatar's, by almost 10m. International was a bit slow, but I guess it'll rebound a bit.

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Lawlight on 03 January 2016

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It's broken the record for biggest New Year's Day, was Avatar's, by almost 10m. International was a bit slow, but I guess it'll rebound a bit.

I'm surprised people went out on New Year's Day.

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Chris Hu said:

DM235 said:

I came across an interesting infographic in Businessweek. The box office revenue projection for TFA is:

$734m domestic (USA and Canada)
$1,650m international

That makes the total estimate $2,384m (not enough to beat Avatar).

FYI, they also expect the following:

$500m from Disney Infinity 3.0
$780m from Star Wars Battlefront (which means about 13m copies)
$235 for TV licensing domestically (USA and Canada)
$214m for TV licensing internationally
$458m for DVD/streaming
$5,000m for merchandise

That brings the total projected revenue for TFA to $9.6b. Not bad for the first movie in the trilogy.

It will easily do more then $734 domestically but it might not get to $ 1,650 internationally.

Holy shit.... Merchandising....

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man-bear-pig on 03 January 2016

DM235 said:

I came across an interesting infographic in Businessweek. The box office revenue projection for TFA is:

$734m domestic (USA and Canada)
$1,650m international

That makes the total estimate $2,384m (not enough to beat Avatar).

FYI, they also expect the following:

$500m from Disney Infinity 3.0
$780m from Star Wars Battlefront (which means about 13m copies)
$235 for TV licensing domestically (USA and Canada)
$214m for TV licensing internationally
$458m for DVD/streaming
$5,000m for merchandise

That brings the total projected revenue for TFA to $9.6b. Not bad for the first movie in the trilogy.

It's going to cross $734m domestically today...900m domestically is the absolute minimum at this point.

Also not surprised they're expecting $5bn from merchandising..I was shopping yesterday and was in the Disney store, Primark, GAME, H&M and Poundland and ALL of them had large proportions of the store decorated to Star Wars merch. Disney store was like 1/3 Star Wars (as you'd expect), GAME was like 1/3 as well which is insane and Primark was probably 1/20 (still massive)