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The Last Jedi Box Office discussion thread

 
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I think LTJ’s performance has less to do with any perceived quality of the film and more to do that this is the third Star Wars movie in 25 months. These movies aren’t the cultural touchstone events they once were.
 
From Box Office Mojo...

The film did drop 68% from its opening weekend, but that's not as much as a surprise as it may outwardly seem, particularly due to the lack of business over the weekend, especially on Christmas Eve, for all titles. The film is expected to top $100 million by end of day tomorrow, which is expected to be huge for most all films in release.
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The film, however, did drop 68% from its opening weekend, but that's not as much as a surprise as it may outwardly seem, particularly due to the lack of business over the weekend, especially on Christmas Eve, for all titles. The film is expected to top $100 million by end of day tomorrow, which is expected to be huge for most all films in release.

crookeddy said:
69 percent drop in Christmas weekend. This is shocking. The movie is basically a flop at this point
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:rofl:

Shocking, hardly (a little surprising) and a flop...

A movie that will still gross anywhere between $1.4-$1.6 billion minimum (we don't have enough information on worldwide numbers at this point) is not nor ever will be a flop.

TLJ was NEVER, EVER going to make more than TFA, we were talking about $2 billion+ and TFA had the advantage of riding a much bigger nostalgic wave that added $$$ to the Box Office.
 
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drt said:
I think LTJ’s performance has less to do with any perceived quality of the film and more to do that this is the third Star Wars movie in 25 months. These movies aren’t the cultural touchstone events they once were.
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Yep. TFA was the first Star Wars in a long time. Now it's a yearly thing. Diminishing returns were a certainty.

Soon they'll have their own streaming live-action series. It'll be interesting to see what the equilibrium is for the movies' cinematic performance after that.
 
crookeddy said:
69 percent drop in Christmas weekend. This is shocking. The movie is basically a flop at this point. You sales down too. Expect Rian Johnson to be taken off any future Disney projects. His career is pretty much over due to this massive disaster!
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You have an odd definition of a flop
 
Tuskin38 said:
You have an odd definition of a flop
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Wow... No kidding... This movie is amazing and a massive success... Sorry the fanboys got offended by it and take pleasure in the fact that it isn’t raking in the cash like its inferior predecessor did.
 
marillion said:
Wow... No kidding... This movie is amazing and a massive success... Sorry the fanboys got offended by it and take pleasure in the fact that it isn’t raking in the cash like its inferior predecessor did.
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But I loved this movie. I'm extremely sad by this turn of events...
 
drt said:
I think LTJ’s performance has less to do with any perceived quality of the film and more to do that this is the third Star Wars movie in 25 months. These movies aren’t the cultural touchstone events they once were.
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Good point. When I heard about Disney's ambitious plans for the franchise I knew eventually it would lead to saturation. i was thinking it would be much longer down the road than this, but this could be the start of it. That being said, I also believe there is a perceived quality issue at play here. The media talk has been about the backlash more than just glowing accounts of its box office dominance.
 
Considering the draw from this film, and the now planned Johnson's inspired trilogy, I think we'll see him again in Star Wars.

Its the Solo movie that's having the issues.
 
Mach5 said:
$14.63 mil. (est.) on Christmas Eve day. Rogue One did 15.3.

No one expected this do do TFA's numbers, but after that insane opening weekend ($220 mil., only 11% behind TFA's record), LucasFilm must have hoped for a lot more.
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Looks like the 14.6 mil. estimate might have been lowballed. More recent data puts it closer to 17.
 
crookeddy said:
The sequel will be a reset of all of Rian Johnson's ideas, and we will never see him helm a big budget movie again.
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Given Abrams involvement, I highly doubt it. Given that Disney has tapped Johnson to helm an entire trilogy we will see him helming films again. Given that the film is still making big money inside of a huge franchise, the odds of a reset and never Johnson again are even worse than navigating an asteroid field.

Please don't mistake Box Office predictions for studio satisfaction, sine Johnson clearly has earned Disney's approval.
 
The number thtwill matter to disney/LFL, will be the fnal net profit, Gross is fun to look at, but to studios net profits are what really counts.

You have production costs, which they've recovered
Marketing costs
legal fees
taxes
licensing, and merchandising costs
Theater costs
etc
 
fireproof78 said:
It really is like ST ID all over again.
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Case in point:
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Downright pathetic and unworthy of Forbs' brand.

ETA: Christmas day estimate is in - $31.4 million. A solid number. Will be interesting to see how it does on Boxing Day. Rogue One owned it with $32 mil.
 
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