Universal sets box office record in industry with $5.5 billion in 2015

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bananaking21 said:

binary solo said:
Impressive. I cannot for the life of me understand $1.5 Bn for F&F7 or $570M for Fifty Shades. But you can't deny the achievement.

paul walker died. and the marketing division took advantage of that perfectly. never in my life have i seen one comment neither on the internet or in real life about anybody mentioning paul walker as one of their favorite actors, best actors, or anything of that sort. he dies and suddenly the whole world will "miss him". 

same thing happened with batman the dark night. the first batman made 370 million. the second one, heith ledger dies and it makes over a billion. death is the best marketing tool ever in the entertainment business. 

Yeah but 1.5 frickin billion? 1 Billion OK, but 500 million more on top of that?