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Wonktonodi on 05 January 2016
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Lawlight said:
Wonktonodi said:

Oh indeed most limited rerelease of the classics these days do little but there is a lot of room between The Star Wars special editions run and Gone with the Winds 75th aniversary depeding on how far it get's now, a rerelease down the line could bump it up a few spots on the list, but until we are much closer to seeing just how much it does now there is no point predicting what future rereleases may or may not add.

 

I see that. Still re-releases don't matter these days. Back then the theatre count was low compared to today. There's twice as many theatres in the US now than in 1980 and even less in the 60s so back then staggered releases and long runs made sense. Think about it - in recent times, what was the last movie that grossed a significant amount from re-releases?

a little further back E.T. 20th aniversary did 35 million in 2002

then these are the most sucessful 3d rereleases, though when they were rerelease they weren't exclusively in 3d

Lion King 3d 94 million in 2011

Titanic 3d almost 58 million in 2012

Jurrasic park 45 million 2013

 

All those movies except E.T. moved up several on the chart with those rereleases and had it done a few million probably 3 or so back in 02 it would also be up a spot since it's less than 5 million behind the next movie on the list.

Bringing all this back to Star Wars TFA depending on where it ends up on that list it could be just a few million shy of the next movie, unless it does get up to number 3 at that point the gaps get huge the gap between 2 and 3 is almost twice as big as the gap between 3 and 8.

Currently I expect it to end up from 3 to 9 on the list. With 9 very likely even if its starts dropping more rapidly, while 3 being possible if it's legs are closer to Avatars than Jurrasic World or the Avengers. Basing that on what percentage those movies had taken in after 17days. Should it be even more front loaded than any of those it still has a little room before it wouldn't beat # 9 on the list