Why So Blu?

It made 157 million yesterday in the U.S.

james2025a

This movie is gonna break all the records and I think Avatars record finally has a chance of being broken. Just hearing people around me who have never given a shit about comic book movies at all discussing the movie and saying how they saw it and loved it (going a second time) or are super eager to see the movie is astounding. Hell my wife who tends to hate these movies was pissed we couldn't get tickets for this weekend.

And looking at all showings for all screenings in my area I have never seen literally every single seat booked days ahead of screenings. There's usually the odd seat here and there, but not this time. This is unprecidented. I mean I was guessing a record $280 million domestic weekend, but seeing figures now estimating as high as $340 million is beyond belief.

Defiant1

Wait until the 2nd weekend's gross to get a better idea of how much this will eventually make. The opening weekend is at insane hype levels, which makes it hard to judge accurately.

james2025a

I know that most movies have a second week drop off of around 50%, but I think this second weekend is going to be stellar. I have my ticket for tomorrow and also bought tickets for next weekend. When I bought the tickets for next weekend I saw that screenings were already almost half fully booked up. That's pretty amazing and looks to me like that drop off will certainly happen, but it's still going to be incredible. $150 millions second weekend I would say is a certainty. $200 million second weekend is actually a possibility. Even though Marvel movies are gonna continue it also feels like the end of an era and fans over the last 11 years of the MCU are all gonna turn out for this, but it seems to have also become more of a cultural phenomenon.

JimRochester

I went twice. I already had tickets for Saturday with some family and on Friday the weather sucked, sales calls were going nowhere so I decided to play hooky and go see it. I wasn't surprised Saturday morning was booked (even the front row). But Friday at 10:50 was completely sold out too. A lot of people must have been playing hooky on Friday.

dex14

Why So Blu?

OldBoy

as i said in the poll early on and as #'s today prove, yup!

dex14

E Unit

Yeah, like a week, even with a dropoff.

dex14

E Unit

No, but it will best TFA. I'd guess within a month. Capt Marvel is #2 with it being in theaters 8 weeks, but due to the Endgame bump. Who knows, Endgame may still be in the top 5 by the time Far From Home comes out.

dex14

Shannon Nutt

$350 million (probably $354 million when the final tally comes in) and I STILL don't think it will best The Force Awakens $936 million domestic record. It's got a really good shot at topping Avatar worldwide, though.

movieguru

I'm sure it will come close to TFA if not beat it. Could it be the first movie to top $1 billion domestically?

Why So Blu?

It's got 3-4 weeks to do it before JW3 and Godzilla come out.

movieguru

I doubt Godzilla will even make a blip at the box office. JW3 may knock the Avengers out of the top spot for the weekend but I'm sure the weekend grosses will still be close.

coli

As a Star Wars fan, I stand corrected as it looks like The Avengers movie will probably beat The Force Awakens. Even though I disdain comic book movies, I want to congratulate whoever overseas these movies because I have noticed that they captured a younger generation of fans (compared to Star Wars where the franchise lives off of Nostalgia). I don't know one person (over 35) who went to see The Avengers this weekend, but everyone I know (under 35) saw it, so that tells me they were smart to embrace the Millenials and Gen Z as this is their generation's Star Wars.

cultshock

I'm over 35 and saw it this weekend, and know many more that did. I am officially burnt out on Star Wars, I'll see the next one in December, but more out of obligation than anything. On the other hand, I'm still excited about any Marvel film that comes out, they have remained fresh and exciting for me, while Star Wars is just tired and like you say, totally riding on nostalgia at this point. But hey, everyone has different tastes. If you had told me when I was 10 years old back in 1977 that I would eventually get tired of new SW films, I would have told you that you're crazy.

dsa_shea

Isn't Star Wars essentially a movie series in the vain of what you would get in comics? I would even venture to say that Lucas would have had comics made of his idea if he thought they would be successful.

cultshock

Lucas wanted Star Wars comics right from the beginning, he knew they would work. They practically begged Marvel to publish them, when editor Roy Thomas finally convinced Marvel to give it a shot. And of course, the huge success of the Marvel Star Wars comic single handedly saved Marvel from the brink of failure in 1977. Funny how things eventually worked out.

OldBoy

Star Wars IV-IX are space odyssey/adventures. The Avengers and the kin are superhero movies. 2 totally different genres imo. Both structured in similar fashion of course, right down to "super" powers, but really different in narrative i think...

Obi-Wanma

I'm 42 and I saw it twice this weekend. There were plenty of older people at both showings (many of them without kids), and I know people of all ages who love these movies.

Also, as my username should tell you, I am also a huge Star Wars fan who grew up with the property. At this point I'm not sure that I can muster anywhere the excitement that I had for this movie for Episode IX.

Decker

Your typo is also telling. These movies have a lot more appeal in foreign markets than even the Star Wars movies do. MCU movies overseas outgross the US box office 2:1, while recent Star Wars is just about 50/50.

movieguru

So in one weekend, this movie has three times as much in the global box office as the last Star Wars movie made globaly during it's entire run. It's near made as much domestically during the weekend as the Han Solo movie made globally for its whole run as well.

I would suspect it will crack $600M maybe close to $650M by the end of next weekend. So by the end of it's run domestically, it should be at least the 2nd highest grossing movie (unajusted for inflation) of all time. I'm sure it will beat TFA by the end and it will be interesting to see if it can hit the $1B mark at the end of its run.