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LordLichtenstein on 26 December 2015
Wonktonodi said:
Heavenly_King said:
I really hope for it to not surpass 1B. it is not worthy.

 

It very well could be a billion dollar movie in just the domestic box office. 
For every movie that does well there are those who like it and those who don't. Personally I'd love to see it get over 3 billion. 





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brute on 26 December 2015

Forbes is reporting $49 million for Friday (domestic, no international numbers yet).



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Lawlight on 26 December 2015
hershel_layton said:
Chris Hu said:

 

It will be over a billion by Sunday.

 

That means it would have reached 1 billion in nine days.


Wasn't the record for reaching one billion eighteen days or something?

9 days? How did you count that? It's 12 days.





Wonktonodi on 26 December 2015
Lawlight said:
hershel_layton said:

 

That means it would have reached 1 billion in nine days.


Wasn't the record for reaching one billion eighteen days or something?

9 days? How did you count that? It's 12 days.

My guess would be he counted only the US release and was thinking of at a billion on Saturday not Sunday. 





hershel_layton on 26 December 2015
Chris Hu said:
hershel_layton said:

 

That means it would have reached 1 billion in nine days.


Wasn't the record for reaching one billion eighteen days or something?

Jurassic World did it the faster it did in in thirteen days.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/22/media/jurassic-world-billion-box-office/index.html

The Force Awakens will have better legs then JW plus there is really no serious competion that will slow down its legs anytime soon.

It's hilarious how so many other movies got ignored because they were released near Star Wars.

 

As if they have a chance.





 

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hershel_layton on 26 December 2015
Lawlight said:
hershel_layton said:

 

That means it would have reached 1 billion in nine days.


Wasn't the record for reaching one billion eighteen days or something?

9 days? How did you count that? It's 12 days.

I live in the U.S.  Star Wars released on the 18th for me. If it reaches 1 billion by Saturday/Sunday(the twenty-sixth/seventh), that would mean it took 9(or ten) days.





 

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Insidb on 26 December 2015
Wonktonodi said:
Heavenly_King said:
I really hope for it to not surpass 1B. it is not worthy.

 

It very well could be a billion dollar movie in just the domestic box office. 
For every movie that does well there are those who like it and those who don't. Personally I'd love to see it get over 3 billion. 

I would love to see it break 4B; Star Wars is a cultural phenomenon.





Darc Requiem on 26 December 2015

I took my cousin to see the 1:50pm showing today. It sold out. Crazy.



S.Peelman on 26 December 2015

It's upped to 890m worldwide now on BoxOfficeMojo and they're estimating a 178m second weekend, domestic, while the current record for second weekend is 106m by Jurassic World... They're saying Jurassic World needed 24 days to break 550m domestic, while Star Wars will do it in just 10 days... Completely insane. I'd say a billion domestic is a given, Avatar will be left in the dust. It's up to international now and I'm curious about it's China performance in two weeks.



Insidb on 26 December 2015

Interesting point: the EU/dollar exchange rate is more favorable than it has been in years, so selling as many tickets as JW or Avatar (especially the latter) will result in greater dollar profits.

Some food for thought.