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. 

It's not always the case, sometimes it drives people away because it makes them sad. How have the Robin Williams movies done in the almost year since he killed himself?

Also the Dark Knight Rises also made over a billion, so I think the Dark Knight would have done as well, heck having living actors to promote movies is also a help.Not to mention he had one or two more movies that didn't do as well after.

There are others as well.

OT, I wonder if they will be the first studio with 3 billion dollar movies in one year?