IT'S OFFICIAL - TFA is HIGHEST US Domestic Earner of ALL TIME!!!!
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I wonder which two imports had better debuts.Some unexpected good news for Disney:
Pre-sales were mediocre, but TFA still managed to draw in a crowd.
Fast & Furious 7 probably got really good press, a wide release and lots of support considering the movie was partly financed with Chinese money and some of the profit also went to China.
No movie is released in China without a Chinese company getting a cut of the money, oftentimes most of the money.
just remember that when someone tells you how Americans have bad taste.Tulin said:
I'm Australian so I already KNOW Americans have bad taste.
FF7 and all four Transformers movies were huge everywhere, though.
Could be cultural differences, But I honestly think north-american audiences have better taste that most others... Though I'm not ruling out the possibility that my personal tastes are "Americanized".
My favorite example - The Hobbit movies. The first one was passable, and made a decent buck in the States and Canada, but the other two were utter crap and the north-american boxoffice reflected this... HOWEVER, their overseas takings were almost identical, in fact the last one (by far the worst of the three, no plot, insane overuse of CGI, cringe worthy dialogue and laughable action sequences) sold even more tickets than the first two.
Perhaps an even better example would be Pirates of the Caribbean IV, a fucking joke of a movie. That thing made an unremarkable $240 mil. at home, but added another $800 mil. overseas!
BTW, TFA reclaimed the No.1 spot on Saturday with an impressive $ 19 mil., with The Revenant at #2 with equally impressive $15 mil. Looks like TFA might win the weekend after all, but it's still a bit too early to say.
OH, this also means that TFA just passed $800 mil. domestically, another huge milestone.
I hope not. It's not even the best science-fiction film of the year. Ex Machina and The Martian are much better in most aspects.
You can't seriously compare Ex Machina and The Martian, two serious science fiction films, to a fantasy action flick such as Star Wars. These are apples and oranges.
Shit, Ex Machina and The Martian are already an apple and an orange, with Star Wars being something like cabbage compared to them.
Whilst I think Avatar is within reach, I suspect that TFA might fall some US$300-400m short. I think it might sail past the next iceberg that is Titanic. As for the UK it's currently number 2 in the all time list behind Skyfall , Avatar for the record is in number 4 behind Spectre with Titanic in the number 5 slot.
And if they don't, they can always order it from Amazon!
FF7 and all four Transformers movies were huge everywhere, though.
Could be cultural differences, But I honestly think north-american audiences have better taste that most others... Though I'm not ruling out the possibility that my personal tastes are "Americanized".
My favorite example - The Hobbit movies. The first one was passable, and made a decent buck in the States and Canada, but the other two were utter crap and the north-american boxoffice reflected this... HOWEVER, their overseas takings were almost identical, in fact the last one (by far the worst of the three, no plot, insane overuse of CGI, cringe worthy dialogue and laughable action sequences) sold even more tickets than the first two.
Perhaps an even better example would be Pirates of the Caribbean IV, a fucking joke of a movie. That thing made an unremarkable $240 mil. at home, but added another $800 mil. overseas!
Well to put things in perspective.
The USA's population is what 320 million The gloal population of the world is what 7.4bn. So US$800 from 7bn is not that great.
As for the UK in terms of the Hobbit films
Unexpected Journey: US$78.6m
Desolation of Smaug: US$70.3m
Battle of the Five Armies: US$61.3m
So even in the UK the takings of those films dropped, and of course in recent years the Chinese market has increased.
Add another 40 million, "domestic" boxoffice also includes Canada.
Only four movies in history crossed 1 Billion overseas, and TFA is yet to become the fifth.
Also, you need to consider that ticket prices around the globe vary considerably.
Eh, I think they can still be compared, at least on a level of which scifi movies you consider the most memorable and well made.
And as much as I really enjoyed TFA, I ultimately got a much bigger kick out of watching Fury Road and The Martian last year, and thought they were just a whole lot better executed and a lot more thrilling to watch. (Ex Machina, while good, just didn't grab me as much as I was hoping it would).
True but my overall point was you initally seemed to be impying that US$800m Rest of the world vs US$240m for the USA and Canada was a good result. Which I would say is a poor result given the population differences. Of course there are lots of factors at play
Ticket prices
Cultural differences
Language
etc..
TFA is at what US$820m domestic and US$947m Rest of the world of which US$230m comes from english speaking countries (UK, Australia and New Zealand)
At least Americans seemed to catch on with the Transformers movies.
Transformers - 319 mill
Transformers 2- 420 (+30%)
Transformers 3- 352 (-17%)
Transformers 4- 245 (-31%)
Meanwhile in China.....
$37,218,823
$65,837,290
$165,100,000
$320,000,000
