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Elano:
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--- Quote from: Dollaz + $ense on December 21, 2009, 02:06:58 AM ---anyone think cameron is gonna get his budget back? ;D
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I think he almost certainly will. The question is when. Domestically, it made about $73 Million. But world wide it's already made $232.2 Million, which is the best world wide debut ever, for a non-sequal. Apparently 20th Century Fox isn't saying exactly how much they spent to make the movie. But it's rumored to be somewhere between $240 Million and $500 Million. Granted, that's an enormous amount of money. But when you factor in long term ticket sales, dvd sales, and licensing, I think they'll definitely recover their investment. I think how soon they do, depends on whether or not the ticket sales stay strong in the next few following weeks. My opinion is that it will probably do quite well this week, because a lot of people go see movies over the Christmas holiday. But past that, it's hard to say.
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Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar" surged to a box office haul of more than one billion US dollars globally on Sunday, faster than any other movie in history, an industry tracker reported.
Aided by consecutive holiday weekends and pricey 3-D tickets, total domestic sales for the science fiction epic reached 352 million US dollars and an eye-popping 670 million internationally, according to estimated figures by Exhibitor Relations.
The astronomical performance since the movie's debut 17 days ago has already sealed its reputation as one of the most impressive box office performers of all time.
"It was the fastest ever to the one-billion-dollar mark," with "Avatar" now the third biggest grossing film ever, behind "Titanic" (1997) and "The Return of the King" (2003), the final movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, box office analyst Chad Hartigan of Exhibitor Relations told AFP.
"Avatar" tells the story of paralyzed war veteran Jake, who is sent on a mission from Earth to the planet Pandora, where he falls in love with a blue humanoid named Neytiri of the alien Na'vi race.
Its New Year's weekend ticket sales of 68.3 million US dollars easily set a domestic record for the biggest-ever third weekend for a film, while worldwide sales of 66.4 million for "Avatar" at IMAX also broke the record for the mega-screen format, according to Hollywood.com.
"It was expected to do well, but not this well,' Hartigan said.
Optimistic estimates hovered around 350 million domestically over its total run. "But to have that already in 17 days is ridiculous," Hartigan added.
"It's holding so well from week to week, at this point the sky seems to be the limit."
"Avatar" is director James Cameron's first film since the 1997 Oscar-winner "Titanic," which suffered production delays and severe criticism for its bloated budget, but eventually became the highest-grossing film of all time.
His latest masterpiece became the most expensive film ever made, at up to 500 million US dollars.
"That poor guy is up against it every time," Hartigan said. "He seems to encounter serious doubt, and then delivers."
The previous weekend, earning 75.6 million US dollars from Friday to Sunday, the film helped boost the North American box office to the highest-grossing weekend in movie history, at nearly 270 million US dollars.
The figure smashed the previous best weekend mark of 260.3 million set in July 2008, when Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight" opened to huge audiences in Canada and the United States.
Chad Vader:
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--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on January 03, 2010, 05:43:23 PM ---pretty silly, i guess the new way to sell movies is going to be hype it up for half a year & then give an average plot with ridiculous graphics.
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New way to sell movies? Where have you been?
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i can't remember the last movie that had this much hype & was so far away from meeting that hype. :P
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How about the last three Star Wars films? Phantom Menace had way more hype than Avatar and it was a huge let down.
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i didn't pay much attention to it.
i mean, i saw it; thought it was alright, but didn't pay attention to the hype of it.
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I barely heard that much hype for Avatar all things considered.
When Phantom Menace was being released they had cross promotions with Pepsi for can collecting.
They released the old movies again to set it up. They had news coverage of people in line days before the opening.
It was ridiculous.
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True,and you know what I totally missed out on the hype around this movie.
(heard about it a couple of weeks before it premiered. :P :P :P)
Shallow:
--- Quote from: Vader on January 04, 2010, 03:13:30 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 04, 2010, 03:04:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on January 04, 2010, 02:58:06 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 04, 2010, 02:56:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on January 04, 2010, 12:12:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 04, 2010, 07:27:31 AM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on January 03, 2010, 05:43:23 PM ---pretty silly, i guess the new way to sell movies is going to be hype it up for half a year & then give an average plot with ridiculous graphics.
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New way to sell movies? Where have you been?
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i can't remember the last movie that had this much hype & was so far away from meeting that hype. :P
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How about the last three Star Wars films? Phantom Menace had way more hype than Avatar and it was a huge let down.
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i didn't pay much attention to it.
i mean, i saw it; thought it was alright, but didn't pay attention to the hype of it.
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I barely heard that much hype for Avatar all things considered.
When Phantom Menace was being released they had cross promotions with Pepsi for can collecting.
They released the old movies again to set it up. They had news coverage of people in line days before the opening.
It was ridiculous.
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True,and you know what I totally missed out on the hype around this movie.
(heard about it a couple of weeks before it premiered. :P :P :P)
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Dark Knight had way more hype than Avatar. Dark Knight lived up to some of it, but not all of it.
Chamillitary Click:
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 04, 2010, 03:19:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Vader on January 04, 2010, 03:13:30 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 04, 2010, 03:04:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on January 04, 2010, 02:58:06 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 04, 2010, 02:56:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on January 04, 2010, 12:12:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on January 04, 2010, 07:27:31 AM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on January 03, 2010, 05:43:23 PM ---pretty silly, i guess the new way to sell movies is going to be hype it up for half a year & then give an average plot with ridiculous graphics.
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New way to sell movies? Where have you been?
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i can't remember the last movie that had this much hype & was so far away from meeting that hype. :P
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How about the last three Star Wars films? Phantom Menace had way more hype than Avatar and it was a huge let down.
--- End quote ---
i didn't pay much attention to it.
i mean, i saw it; thought it was alright, but didn't pay attention to the hype of it.
--- End quote ---
I barely heard that much hype for Avatar all things considered.
When Phantom Menace was being released they had cross promotions with Pepsi for can collecting.
They released the old movies again to set it up. They had news coverage of people in line days before the opening.
It was ridiculous.
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True,and you know what I totally missed out on the hype around this movie.
(heard about it a couple of weeks before it premiered. :P :P :P)
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Dark Knight had way more hype than Avatar. Dark Knight lived up to some of it, but not all of it.
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i think it lived up to all of it. 8)
Shallow:
With out changing the thread; I thought Dark Knight dragged on too long. The action scenes were lackluster for an action film. The drama was too 2D for a drama. Heath was incredible as the Joker and most of the Joker scenes were incredible, but at times it was too subtle and then to make up for that it became too blunt with the message. The Two Face origin and storyline was stupid. I still think it's the best Superhero film ever.
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