Niners Fan in CT Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 That sounds awful. From everything I've read JJ seems to be a guy who grew up loving Star Wars right, whereas he wasn't really a huge Star Trek fan? I might be wrong on that but it at least looks like he is doing everything right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Star Trek Into darkness, continuity issues aside, is still a much better movie than either TPM or AOTC. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Okay, here. This is the definitive piece about JJ & Star Trek. Let's move back to Kylo Ren blowing up some dude's brain with the Force. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Got opening night IMAX tickets. Not sure how I feel about lightsabres and shrieking fans. Have I made a huge mistake? Honestly, that has kept me away from opening night. I saw AotC and RotS on opening day, but that was before midnight showings were really a thing. First in like was 10am on a Wednesday, and the fanboys weren't out in full force around here at that hour. No way I'd deal with these assholes. Sunday matinee is fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I quite enjoyed ST: Into Darkness. I'm not a Trek fan, though, so I'm not very familiar with the changes to canon. I'm really surprised Star Wars is still a thing. I had no idea it was still that big a thing to people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsey Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I quite enjoyed ST: Into Darkness. I'm not a Trek fan, though, so I'm not very familiar with the changes to canon. I'm really surprised Star Wars is still a thing. I had no idea it was still that big a thing to people. HERETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 So basically the prediction for Force Awakens is $414 million opening weekend? If so that is fucking insane! and honestly being surprised Star Wars is "still a thing" is kind of ridiculous. This movie has been on the pop culture radar since Lucas sold to Disney James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 A bit of perspective: the record that it broke by eight times over was only Fandango's, and the movie it broke the record of wasn't Jurassic World, but rather the first Hunger Games. It's going to open huge, but to break the all time record, it also needs legs. Word of mouth and repeat business. Typically, Christmas blockbusters open smaller and run longer than summer ones, but this is poised to destroy the first of those two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I like Into Darkness. I like ToS. I love Wrath of Khan. *shrug* 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Has any one ever taken those type of things into account. Like number of screens + time in theaters ect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 A bit of perspective: the record that it broke by eight times over was only Fandango's, and the movie it broke the record of wasn't Jurassic World, but rather the first Hunger Games. It's going to open huge, but to break the all time record, it also needs legs. Word of mouth and repeat business. Typically, Christmas blockbusters open smaller and run longer than summer ones, but this is poised to destroy the first of those two. It's Star Wars. Repeat business is guaranteed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 A bit of perspective: the record that it broke by eight times over was only Fandango's, and the movie it broke the record of wasn't Jurassic World, but rather the first Hunger Games. It's going to open huge, but to break the all time record, it also needs legs. Word of mouth and repeat business. Typically, Christmas blockbusters open smaller and run longer than summer ones, but this is poised to destroy the first of those two. It's Star Wars. Repeat business is guaranteed. For sure. But is it going to get Revenge of Sith repeat business or Avatar repeat business? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Fuck dude, I strongly disliked Phantom and Clones and I saw then 3 times each. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I did see Sith twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I think part of the marketing strategy was to move it from the summer, when movies burn hot to start and then drop fast, to the winter, when movies last longer, to capitalize of "Avatar repeat business". Look James Cameron's 2 biggest movies were reperat busienss in the winter, where Titanic was this monster hit and just stayed in the top 10 for something stupid like 4 months James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 This movie is undoubtedly going to make big money, but just remember, members of this community said Guardians of the Galaxy would bomb and Need for Speed would make more money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 http://thechive.com/2015/10/20/times-the-internet-made-star-wars-even-more-awesome-26-photos/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=chivetrafficfacebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrag Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Calling it now. 500 mil opening weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 This is the Disney Juggernaut pushing a Star Wars film. This isn't Tomorrowland or John Carter, this is Star Wars. Biggest money maker in the history of ever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Actually, the MCU is the biggest money making franchise ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Looking at movie times, is the earliest viewing at 7:00 on Thursday? I thought movies typically launched at midnight on a Wednesday. For the record, I go to 2 movies a year. Help me understand this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I think it depends on what the opening day is. So with my movie theater it lists opening day as Friday, December 18th. It had an option for Friday or it had an option that said "See it early" which is the 17th and the earliest showing is 7:00pm. I opted for an early showing on Friday instead of Thursday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I'm hedging my bets that my luck holds out. I live a town over from where I used to. Both have theaters that tend to do 8pm showings of major releases the Thursday prior to 'official' release. My childhood home was good, but for some reason my current one? NO ONE goes. We're talking every Marvel release, every Hunger Games, every big blockbuster. It'll sell out Friday, Saturday, and Sunday following but not Thursday which will be half full at most. What I'm saying is that my plan is to swagger into that showing without preordering and see how that goes. As for the trailer? It sure is Star Wars. I grew up on the VHS remasters of the original trilogy. Phantom Menace hit when I was 11 and thus I loved it at first. Podracing and lightsaber stuff were awesome, who gave a shit about the rest. At some point when I got older it lost the 'magic' to me and I'm not entirely clear why. So I mean, I'm jazzed for this. It looks great. But I don't have the same buzz for it that I do for a lot of comic book films. Probably because between the EU and not seeing the prequels as a departure, it doesn't feel like a long time since that itch was scratched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I think at most theaters the first showing is 7pm. Looks like they knew they would need more show times to accommodate the 12/17 early release. Either way, this thing is going to be huge for the first 2 or 3 weeks. People will be on Holiday break all around the world. No way this doesn;t shatter all the box office records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrag Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Actually, the MCU is the biggest money making franchise ever. For the next 2 months.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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