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Post by thisguy4000 on Jul 9, 2018 21:51:36 GMT
I’d go with Titanic. That movie was number one at the box office for 15 weeks, and it not only was the first movie to cross the billion dollar mark, but actually came close to grossing $2 billion in its initial run theatrical run. Also, it did all this at a time when movies didn’t benefit from inflated 3D ticket prices, and couldn’t rely on China to make a lot of money.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 10, 2018 0:33:25 GMT
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Whether it turned out to be good or bad, not once in hell did I expect it to come just shy of a billion dollars.
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Post by Proud MGTOW on Oct 8, 2018 7:47:14 GMT
To be honest, The Dark Knight. Not that I thought it would flop, but I definitely didn't expect $550 million domestically and just over $1 billion world wide.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 8, 2018 20:59:16 GMT
Titanic.
I think it was ether due to the markets opening up thanks to changes in trade agreements around culture, or just a lot of BS and it was never as popular as they claim.
Were people really paying high ticket prices to watch it 4 times in a row?
They debated it endlessly on newsgroups whether it would be popular like Star Wars.
Time settled that.
Totally forgotten.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 8, 2018 22:52:38 GMT
Time settled that. Totally forgotten. Wait, the movie or the debates? |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 8, 2018 23:46:03 GMT
Wait, the movie or the debates? Both. No one talks about Titanic anymore. Except to discuss why it was briefly popular.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 8, 2018 23:50:13 GMT
Wait, the movie or the debates? Both. No one talks about Titanic anymore. Except to discuss why it was briefly popular.
Or to reference it. I namedrop it and people respond positively. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 9, 2018 0:05:33 GMT
Or to reference it. I namedrop it and people respond positively. They lied. The heart will NOT go on.
And JarJar and Ackbars get more attention than DiCaprio's Jack.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Oct 9, 2018 0:32:15 GMT
Wait, the movie or the debates? Both. No one talks about Titanic anymore. Except to discuss why it was briefly popular.
I mean, it probably helps that Star Wars is an ongoing franchise, while Titanic was just one film that happened to be based on a true story. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 9, 2018 0:38:23 GMT
I mean, it probably helps that Star Wars is an ongoing franchise, while Titanic was just one film that happened to be based on a true story. At the time it had to do with box office. Would Titanic popularity be like SW popularity?
We know the answer.
No. If the character was called Jackbar he would have a legion of internet namesakes today.
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 12, 2018 1:38:56 GMT
I'll go with Titanic. Your explanations were perfect. If the movie were released today, it likely would not gross as much money.
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Post by hanswilm on Oct 12, 2018 12:18:19 GMT
I'd say "The Blair Witch Project" it was just some people with a hand held camera and it became this huge hit that everyone had to see. I'd call that surprising.
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Post by faustus5 on Oct 12, 2018 15:59:32 GMT
I'd say "The Blair Witch Project" it was just some people with a hand held camera and it became this huge hit that everyone had to see. I'd call that surprising. I liked it quite a lot, even got actor Mike's autograph on the book, but its success was crazy surprising. I remember a car filled to the brim with young guys and girls that pulled up to me as I was walking down the sidewalk with groceries. They were from a distant suburb and drove all the way into the city to see the movie, which was playing at only one theater in the entire state, and they were lost. To to this day I wonder if they were excited to see the movie because they fell for the viral marketing which hinted it was truly found footage. Of course, the studio expanded the distribution once they realized what they had on their hands. |
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Post by vegalyra on Oct 15, 2018 17:25:22 GMT
I ended up seeing Titanic twice at the theater. To be honest, it was with two different dates, and i was more interested in making them happy and see what transpired the rest of the night... LOL. College was fun.
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Post by notoriousnobbi on Oct 16, 2018 0:53:00 GMT
Dirty Dancing!
It rescued some arthouse cinemas in Germany.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 5:13:55 GMT
I’d go with Titanic. That movie was number one at the box office for 15 weeks, and it not only was the first movie to cross the billion dollar mark, but actually came close to grossing $2 billion in its initial run theatrical run. Also, it did all this at a time when movies didn’t benefit from inflated 3D ticket prices, and couldn’t rely on China to make a lot of money. For me, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. -based on a ride -starring a nearly forgotten actor named Johnny Depp -directed by the "Mouse Hunt" guy Yeah, I didn't think this was going to do the gangbusters that it did. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2018 21:10:16 GMT
Avatar. Its 2.8 billion nearly 10 years ago has still to be topped. So far no movie has even came close. It remains the only movie to have grossed 2 billion overseas.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 16:00:18 GMT
When will Avatar be overtaken. If the trade war with China continues Hollywood could be banned from showing there movies there
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Post by Pangolin on Oct 26, 2018 15:00:04 GMT
I’d go with Titanic. That movie was number one at the box office for 15 weeks, and it not only was the first movie to cross the billion dollar mark, but actually came close to grossing $2 billion in its initial run theatrical run. Also, it did all this at a time when movies didn’t benefit from inflated 3D ticket prices, and couldn’t rely on China to make a lot of money. For me, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. -based on a ride -starring a nearly forgotten actor named Johnny Depp -directed by the "Mouse Hunt" guy Yeah, I didn't think this was going to do the gangbusters that it did. Also because several other movies bout Pirates in the decades before PotC were big flops. |
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Post by striker90210 on Nov 9, 2018 22:07:24 GMT
There are several but I will mention the most recent one that comes to mind - Venom. After the lower than expected reception of Solo (Star Wars), many were skeptical that a movie about a side character in the Spiderman universe can succeed at the box office. With the Tomato meter at 29% and Metacritic meter at 35, everything looked bleak. The rest is history. With the budget of 100 million, it has made over 500 million so far. Venom proved that predicting box office success is not an exact science. At least not at the present time.
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