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Avengers: Endgame will not outgross Avatar worldwide. Who will make an avatar bet about that?
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It's not like it had a huge weekend in December, then petered out. It made a consistent amount of money for literally months.
Domestically, it didn't drop below $10m a week until mid-March.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekly&id=avatar.htm
What are you talking about?
Endgame is at $2.615 billion with the weekend estimate.
Infinity War did $240M more after its 4th weekend.
Still waiting for you to explain Avatar breaking and holding the 2D home releases record for 5 years until it was barely dethroned by Frozen. Because you never responded to that, but still keep bringing up the 'People only cared because of 3D' argument.
Well in that case the numbers posted here 2 hours ago are wrong.
I went with this:
Makes it more likely, that Endgame would beat Avatar.
Look above. That is what I was talking about.
Seems like the numbers weren't quite correct.
Yes I am... my honest sentiment is that it's a fine movie that doesn't deserve its success. And i think it was THAT successful because of its amazing CGI and the 3D hype. But it would have done great anyways.
Indeed. It's not just 3D. I've said this before, but 3D only enhanced what was already in the movie.
It also didn't do what it did without competition as some people like to claim, during the Holiday season Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 were out, which went on to gross over 200M each domestically.
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Given that it's a direct sequel to EG, my assumption was that some fans might rewatch EG in anticipation for SM2.
But given the difference is $225M, not $150M, I may have overestimated EGs legs.
The way it's domestic legs are currently looking, I wouldn't bet money on it.
Hadn't realized the new Box Office thread was posted.
EG currently at $2.615B.
Given that it fell below $30M domestic for the week, I don't see where the remaining $172M can come from.
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OK? That's gatekeeping. What leaves a pop culture impact isn't decided by sales or money. Pokemon is a huge brand but it did less than stellar at the box office. You aren't saying anything about the film. You are just trying to find ways to tear it down. It's sad, kind of because you assume that if people enjoy something that they must propagate that content and eventually have it become part of their identity. That's weird. I am so glad most people do not think that way.
Yeah, it was just updated recently. It looks like it needs those legs now because the next few weeks are going to be rough!!!
It was 30M for the weekend. For the entire week Endgame did roughly 47M domestic.
endgame made 129m in the last 7 days WW... it has plenty of coins to hoover up over the next 10+ weeks to bridge the 173m gap
Infinity War didn't also open like Bahamuts final attack. It legged out. Endgame opened huge and is currently legging out worse than Infinity War.
I don't follow movie figures too often, do other movies typically get a boost for the upcoming holiday weekend? It basically becomes a 4 day weekend of sorts for movies too right?
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Yes, which softens the drop a bit because Sunday behaves more like Saturday. For instance, Infinity War had a 41% drop on memorial day weekend last year compared to the 52.6% drop the week before.
The world is a BIG place.
And, not everything that releases here will release in other regions.
If you're talking about %, then I completely agree. $ wise, depending the final numbers, it may be up against IW 4th weekend. Like I said, IW did over $240M after this weekend. Endgame only need $173M ish.
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Infinity War had a later China opening unlike Endgame, so that $240m is boosted by China numbers coming in later.
So if you had to put a percentage of it beating Avatar as of today where would you all put it at?
While true, Endgame is running out of juice a lot faster than IW. That's the thing to keep track of now.
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Still high. Like 80%. But the odds have been slipping since OW.
The funny thing is, Avatar still had like a 20% 2D share domestic. If that is similar WW Avatar made like 540 million WW just from 2D showings. Certainly nothing to sneeze at.
If a re-release happens I will catch it again in IMAX 3D. It was that good
If a re-release happens I will catch it again in IMAX 3D. It was that good
Yeah, the "people only saw Avatar because of the 3D" is disingenuous revisionism up there with "no one liked it!"
You dont become the #1 box office movie of all time from 3D alone. If it were that simple, why was its success never replicated? If the 3D was the only thing people cared about, why was it the best selling 2D Bluray of all time for 6 years? You know how you get to be #1 all time? Word of mouth and repeat business. Lots of repeat business. Avatar had great word of mouth and people went and saw it more than once. Whether it was "memorable" 10 years later or had "cultural impact" 10 years later is completely irrelevant. For the almost year long box office run it had, it connected with people.
PS your favorite current superhero movie has benefited significantly more from premium formats (ie, 3D) than Avatar ever did.
I just dont know why it's so hard for people here to admit it was a well liked movie.
You dont become the #1 box office movie of all time from 3D alone. If it were that simple, why was its success never replicated? If the 3D was the only thing people cared about, why was it the best selling 2D Bluray of all time for 6 years? You know how you get to be #1 all time? Word of mouth and repeat business. Lots of repeat business. Avatar had great word of mouth and people went and saw it more than once. Whether it was "memorable" 10 years later or had "cultural impact" 10 years later is completely irrelevant. For the almost year long box office run it had, it connected with people.
PS your favorite current superhero movie has benefited significantly more from premium formats (ie, 3D) than Avatar ever did.
I just dont know why it's so hard for people here to admit it was a well liked movie.
You tell me, Mister 'Detective Pikachu will make a billion dollars'
Maybe?
I don't know why you're digging at me for my avatar. Seems petty.
If anyone is still looking for some kind of "validation" for their taste in literally the most popular media phenomenon in the last decade, possibly ever...then yeah, sure.
Maybe those people should just check their priorities instead, though.
I dunno why you exclusively troll MCU threads for months either
But I'm also not clairvoyant so I never will
Damn true. Still remember how it took hours to get into Avatar land in Disney world. Don't know how it is now.
Being made fun of for losing an avatar bet is all part of the game my man.
I don't feel as if I lost. I'm terrible at making avatars so I got a free one.
Hey he's just trying to communicate with you in your native tongue
I don't know why they love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch
The pop culture aspect is so weird. Like unless you accidentally made a cult film, who still talks about IPs with absolutely nothing going on after 10 years? The first thing for Avatar since 2009 was the bloody theme park if my memory serves me right
I kicked a Komodo Dragon in the face and it took three of my hands
(I got a new job)
In the off-est of the off-season (mid January, mid-week) this year, I had to queue for 2 hours for Flight of Passage.
Thanks to you, I now have a mental image of Kevin Feige digging through the back of a sofa for loose change...
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