The Box-Office Thread.

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Wonktonodi said:

Lawlight said:

Kowan said:

spurgeonryan said:

JW will struggle to pass The AVengers.

You're joking right? It passing TA is something that even the most pessimistic box office estimate can't stop. The only way it won't pass or crawl to surpass TA is if Universal and Legendary takes it off theatres worldwide or takes off like 90% of its screens, like today, which is obvioucly not happening. It's only been a month since its release, and it still has a month or two more for its run. How could it possibly not earn a measly $30m more in that time?

JW in one month:

$1.47b

The Avengers lifetime:(more than 5 months in cinemas WW)

$1.52b

 

That's not a fair comparison. JW opened in all territories at the same time.

Then look at a more focused "fair" comparison http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?view=weekly&id=usblockbuster.htm

It compares The Avengers, Avatar and JWs domestic weekly totals with alligned launches. I'll just be pointing out a few things compared to the avengers. It was up the first 3 weeks by almost 51 million. Week 4 it lost 10 million of that lead but it's still 40 million ahead. This week it will probably be up again unless JW gets less than 10 million combined monday to Thursday.

Something else that that chart shows that is interesting is how long it took Avengers to get it's total. 22 weeks and while for the most part it was dropping off every week, though come week 18 it had a big jump, it expanded from 123 theaters to 1705 and it's total grew from 164,000 to 2.7 million.

That's US only.