The box office dominance of Avatar
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But wasn't Avatar in the cinnema for almost a year? So Endgame still has time or is it to much to bridge the different?
It's been slowing down for a bit now. It's unlikely that it can make up the extra 50 odd million before it winds up gone from theaters altogether.
However, if, some months down the road, Marvel rereleases it in theaters for a special occassion (which was also done with Avatar), then that very well could do it after all. No idea whether they would be at all interested in doing that, though.
It would be interesting to add in a comparison of the home video revenue? Endgame might have an advantage there
It's going to be real hard to compare those things.
In Avatar's time, the studios made a lot by selling physical media. Now, the next stop after the cinema is cable, streaming, etc, and fairly quickly - that both diminishes the attractiveness of a theatrical re-release to the exhibitors, who will always prefer whatever is exclusive to them and being heavily promoted by the studios right now, first-run stuff, and exacerbates the revenue-sapping piracy issues which Reyman mentioned.
Or, next week, apparently.
Avengers: Endgame Officially Getting Re-Released With New Footage
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Is it a re-release, if it never went out of theaters in the first place?!
Thought so. People should totally boycott this "re-release" to protect the meaning of words.
The bigger question is, does it count as the same movie if it has new or alternate scenes?
Or do we have to start the box office counter at 0 now?
How much of a movie can you change before it‘s not Avengers: Endgame anymore but Avengers: Endgame 2.0?
What if the ending is different this time and the re-release is part of the multiverse plot?
Maybe this will be the movie from Mysterio‘s Earth instead where his account of things is true.
Or do we have to start the box office counter at 0 now?
How much of a movie can you change before it‘s not Avengers: Endgame anymore but Avengers: Endgame 2.0?
What if the ending is different this time and the re-release is part of the multiverse plot?
Maybe this will be the movie from Mysterio‘s Earth instead where his account of things is true.
As I understand it from what I've read. The ONLY thing added was an actual post credits scene with some sort of tribute (I assume to Stan Lee, or the 10+ years of the MCU or both.)
There's precedent (Star Wars, Avatar, etc.). It's all the same box office.
Avatar was a one-of-a-kind spectacle, unlike anything audiences had seen before. No one wanted to miss it.
Endgame is a lot of things, but it certainly isn't one of a kind.
Avatar also used groundbreaking technical innovation to tell a story that has been popular with Western audiences for hundreds of years. On top of that, it was the first release in a decade from a storyteller whose previous film was a cultural moment for a significant portion of the population.
It's inevitable that some film will eventually knock Avatar down to second place- it may yet be Endgame. But Avatar certainly earned its decade in the top spot.
If your familiarity with Western storytelling begins around 1990, sure.
Endgame is a lot of things, but it certainly isn't one of a kind.
Avatar also used groundbreaking technical innovation to tell a story that has been popular with Western audiences for hundreds of years. On top of that, it was the first release in a decade from a storyteller whose previous film was a cultural moment for a significant portion of the population.
It's inevitable that some film will eventually knock Avatar down to second place- it may yet be Endgame. But Avatar certainly earned its decade in the top spot.
If your familiarity with Western storytelling begins around 1990, sure.
Absolutely Right.
The "Dances with Wolves" thing exposes a very shallow familiarity with fiction in general.
Don't forget that people became obsessed with Avatar and by extension Pandora. I remember articles being written at the time about how Pandora not being a real place was inducing a type of depression in people.
I didn't see it until it hit HBO. I had zero interest in "Pocahontas...IN SPACE!" <--- Because in the end, flashy (and honestly still somewhat cartoony with the 'Blue Cats') CGI didn't do it for me. YMMV.
Pandora is in Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando. From what I hear it's no more or less busy than the rest of the park, with most people asking "why did they make this?" when they see it.
That leads me to believe that all the stories of people who wished Pandora was real was fake news created by the Fox marketing department.
The real "floating" rock...
