The Box-Office Thread.

[Kowan]

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.

By this time, at the same time, both TA and JW have already opened to all but one territory, Japan. So that's no longer an excuse. If you line their totals at the same time WORLDWIDE, JW would still be ahead by a good margin.

Here's the comparison:

5 weeks in(since release in US):

Jurassic World

domestic: 590.68m

International(all markets except Japan): 877.2m

The Avengers:

Domestic: 552.95m

International(all markets except Japan and Bangladesh): 781.6m

What's even more impressive is that JW had the disadvantage in the Chinese market since it was affected by the summer blackout on movies. Meaning it only had one month until it is removed from all theatres in China. All hollywood movies were banned, so no new foreign films are allowed to be released in that blackout span, and current foreign films already showing will only have a month. Both The Avengers and Age of Ultron was not affected by this.