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zorg1000 said:
thismeintiel said:

That's probably the norm, now. Despite opening a week sooner than ROS, Jumanji is in 321 more theaters than it.

Proof that ROS should have released a week earlier

haxxiy said:

I wonder what the net profit of this movie will be when all its said and done. Sales taxes and cinema shares already take close to 60% of its Box Office Gross at the very least, and they you have all the little P&A costs to take into account on top of a $275 million budget. If Disney didn't own Buena Vista and the distribution rights, that would likely come in below its budget, but as it is, to profit something like 60 - 75% of its budget isn't bad.

That's if the budget was actually $275M.  The Last Jedi's budget was $317M.  There's no way that with all of the reshoots, this film came in under $300M.  My guess would be either matching or going even higher than TLJ's budget.  There's no doubt that they will make a profit on this film, but it won't be by a lot.  It's the reason they are done with trilogies for SW, despite having announced two separate trilogies in 2017-2018. 

Mr.GameCrazy said:
thismeintiel said:
If ROS continues to drop, it may only match RO's WW total. As I've read someone else put it, another $1B disappointment.

Out of curiosity, what was Disney expecting for The Rise of Skywalker's WW total?

We'll probably never know officially.  But, like @DarthJarvis stated, definitely not below TLJ.  I'm pretty sure they were confident in it passing TLJ, since that was the consensus on how the trilogies perform in the SW trilogy, and they made sure to throw in a bunch of fan service.

zorg1000 said:
starcraft said:

Can't comment on the user in question, but there are definitely plenty of people like this on VGC, nevermind the wider internet.

Its essentially anything (they perceive is bad) is because 'zomg stoopid Disney marysue SJW wankers' and anything (they're forced to acknowledge as) good is just a hangover from the awesomeness of the pre-Disney days. Generally, these people are not actually fans of Star Wars, but are pushing an agenda entirely separate to this great, but entirely fictional franchise.

Deep breath, move on, talk to people who are reasonable instead.

Yeah I'm not sure why he even brought that up because I have literally never even stated my feelings towards TLJ in this thread or anytime on this site to my knowledge.

Of course, he also forgets to mention that dislike of TLJ and/or ROS runs through the complete political spectrum.  Can't pin it all on those "women-hating alt-righters."  Well, unless they also want to admit that there are much more of them out there than they thought.