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Well, Marvel ends this phase 1 with elite products and two of the more succesful movies of all time.
Meanwhile, SW has been destroying themselves with last 2 movies, specially episode 8. It seems episode 9 will be better, I hope because I like both sagas a lot.
P.S SW TV series has been strong but not nearly massive as MCU (clone wars, rebels)
Avengers Endgame has broken box office records in a bunch of countries so far, biggest box office opening here in MX, cinema I went to was packed, 9 of their 12 theaters were showing Endgame and were all sold out :eek: Never saw anything like it before.
[QUOTE=Real Men Wear Green]Thank you for the warning, but by "spoilers" I was actually referring to the box office count and an argument I had with a certain poster that will remain Shogon,[/QUOTE]
My wife was looking through Facebook at an news story about the NFL and someone randomly posted the biggest spoiler for the movie in the comments. People are just f*cking mean.
They total estimate some companies think will be $2.5 billion. Making it second all-time behind Avatar. We shall see. Depends on how many people go a second or third time honestly. Nerds will rejoice.
[QUOTE=Meticode]They total estimate some companies think will be $2.5 billion. Making it second all-time behind Avatar. We shall see. Depends on how many people go a second or third time honestly. Nerds will rejoice.[/QUOTE]
I really hope it surpasses Avatar
[QUOTE=Smook A.]I really hope it surpasses Avatar[/QUOTE]
This x infinity (stones)
Watched Avatar and really never understood the appeal.
[QUOTE=Meticode]They total estimate some companies think will be $2.5 billion. Making it second all-time behind Avatar. We shall see. Depends on how many people go a second or third time honestly. Nerds will rejoice.[/QUOTE]
I didn't have plans to go see it again, but I may just do that. I want to watch it with a group of real fans.
[QUOTE=Overdrive]
You can buy anything Starwars. From tissues to Dildos, from Yoda earrings to drones, etcetc.
It's the biggest merchandising movie franchise with a religious following. The Avengers are ok, but they're not on that level yet.[/QUOTE]
Yes but thats not based off of the movies that Star Wars is so popular. They had TV shows as well etc.
I'm just talking movie success here. Marvel Studios >>>>
[QUOTE=Doctor K]Yes but thats not based off of the movies that Star Wars is so popular. They had TV shows as well etc.
I'm just talking movie success here. Marvel Studios >>>>[/QUOTE]
Doesn't matter who is better. It's all Disney anyway. :lol
Disney up in here like...
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[QUOTE=TheMan]This x infinity (stones)
Watched Avatar and really never understood the appeal.[/QUOTE]
Remember when it released, Avatar had multiple digitally/audio enhanced versions. It was one of the first theater films that mastered a really good 3D version in sharp detail. It wasn't the usual $5-$7 upgrade from their non-3d base version, $7-$10 theaters hiked up Avatar tickets $30-$40 and everyone was forking it over
It was the seed that jumpstarted and hyper accelerated that five year 3D film fad .
But it really looked better in 3D thou
[QUOTE=TheMan]This x infinity (stones)
Watched Avatar and really never understood the appeal.[/QUOTE]
Remember when it released, Avatar was one of the founding fathers to have multiple viewing packages and digitally/audio enhanced versions. It was one of the first theater films that mastered a really good 3D version in sharp detail. It wasn't the usual $5-$7 upgrade from their non-3d base version, $7-$10 theaters hiked up Avatar tickets $30-$40 and everyone was forking it over
It was the seed that jumpstarted and hyper accelerated that five year 3D film fad .
But it really looked better in 3D thou
Its already made $1.5 billion and it hasn't even been a week. By the end of this weekend I can see it going to $2 billion. A lot of people are going to be watching it a 2nd or 3rd time for sure
I wasn't wrong that it wouldn't be as good as Infinity War... I was right about that... but...
This movie has clearly done better than I thought it was going to. I was laughably dead ass wrong about that. Embarrassingly so.
I've never seen a movie do so well that didn't REALLY start promoting itself up everyone's ass until only a month before release. That's what truly threw me off. I guess it should be obvious in hindsight, given how many films over the years have tied in with this, no doubt about it. But still... it just seems to me like the promotional hype train would be in full force for about 6 months to a year out of most other truly huge movies before it... where this movie basically didn't start promoting until right after I made that thread.
Hell, there wasn't even a thread here for that movie until I made one 30 days out... there were far smaller films that made far less money that have had people making threads here many many many many months in advance... and yet somehow Endgame slipped under the radar entirely until it was go time.
That's what threw me off and why my prediction was so wildly inaccurate.
Looks like it might pass Avatar... should have taken me up on the bet if that ends up being the case, RMWG... oh well.
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I've never seen a movie do so well that didn't REALLY start promoting itself up everyone's ass until only a month before release. That's what truly threw me off. [/QUOTE]
the movie didn't need promotion with the way Infinity War ended and how many people watched it. They also did a really good job of not giving anything away in trailers and in the little promotion there was, I watched all footage released prior to the movie and I was surprised by the directions the movie took and that definitely improved the experience of watching it. Too many films just give away the whole plot in trailers nowdays.
Checked Wikipedia today (5/3 2:32PM EST) It's above $1.7 billion and hasn't even officially began it's second weekend yet. It's going to go well over $2 billion in 10-11 days from it's April 26th release.