RandomAct Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 So has the story been officially retrofitted to say that Darth Plagueis was Palpatine's master? I liked it much more when Plagueis was this ambiguous figure that may or may not have been some bullshit that Palpatine made up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 He's putting on a show!!! Has anyone seen any figures since the film has been out? I know they smashed the pre-sale record but I haven't heard about any numbers concerning Friday and Saturday numbers yet. Let's just say that Jurassic World didn't hold its opening weekend record very long. It still has the worldwide figure. TFA didn't beat that, due to the fact they don't open in China until next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Domestic was adjusted to an actual of $247 million, which puts TFA *over* Jurassic World by about $5 Million. Without China. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 JW does keep the international record though. But still... Goddamn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Nope, goes to TFA, everyone running with the adjusted number gives the Worldwide record to TFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Not worldwide, international. Jurassic World 316.1, TFA 281. Star Wars also failed to get the best domestic Saturday record for JW, while taking Friday from Harry Potter and Sunday from JW. But it got the vast majority, and the international mark is colored by not opening in China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Ok, I was looking at the wrong numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 JW does keep the international record though. But still... Goddamn. No one gives a wooden nickel about that record! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 JW does keep the international record though. But still... Goddamn.No one gives a wooden nickel about that record! I bet Universal does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 JW does keep the international record though. But still... Goddamn.No one gives a wooden nickel about that record! I bet Universal does. Sure, they care that pitiful record is all they can hang their hat on at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Well, that, and the best domestic box office year by a studio ever, a record they broke months ago. Still Star Wars goddamn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 So has the story been officially retrofitted to say that Darth Plagueis was Palpatine's master? I liked it much more when Plagueis was this ambiguous figure that may or may not have been some bullshit that Palpatine made up.From the way that scene was handled and the way McDiarmid played it, I assumed right from the get-go that he was definitely talking about his own Sith mentor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Which was confirmed in now out of continuity novels right after, and I believe reconfirmed in the new timeline in the Tarkin novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Yeah Universal has Jurassic World and Fast & Furious. They ain't struggling that's for sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 And Minions. Edit: Universal has put out 7 films that crossed the $100 million barrier domestic this year. In addition to the three already named, you have Pitch Perfect 2, Fifty Shades of Grey, Straight Out of Compton and Trainwreck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I can picture the Universal execs burying their heads into giant piles of money and weeping because their record has been broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 So has the story been officially retrofitted to say that Darth Plagueis was Palpatine's master? I liked it much more when Plagueis was this ambiguous figure that may or may not have been some bullshit that Palpatine made up. I don't get why the Collider guys take all of Palpatine's words on Darth Plagueis as gospel. Even after Episode 7, they are still riding the Plagueis train hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Friggin' lizard shit, that is a metric fuck ton of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Random "I was a silly child" story: So, I saw Star Wars on TV when I was maybe 5 (and taped it, and watched and re-watched it until the tape was garbage), and saw Jedi in the theatre when I was 6, but I didn't see Empire until well after that--pretty much all I knew about the story came from the hyper-condensed "storybook and cassette" package, until I was probably 10 or 11. But I had a lot of experience with the toys and especially the toy ads. As a result, because the Tauntaun toy had a trap door described as a "secret compartment" I actually thought that Luke was hiding in a marsupial-type pouch until we got the VHS box set of the trilogy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Something I found interesting So there was a story on either Kotaku or IO9 about how there were 8 trailers before their showing of Force Awakens I went to the Alamo Drafthouse and only got 3 (that wasn't a complaint) Alamo - since they customize the pre-movie stuff they show - showed all the Star Wars themed wrestling. I did miss a couple of lines of dialogue here and there trying to order a refill for my son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Our Drafthouse pre-show didn't have any wrestling. It did have lots of toy ads and a David Unger music video, and a selection of famous Chewbacca moments re-dubbed with Pee-Wee Herman laughs and yells. It was amazing. Only trailers we got (aside from the Hook and Scott Pilgrim quote-alongs next month) were the Michael Moore film, Star Trek Beyond and ID5. No X-Men, Deadpool, Civil War, or BVSDOJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I didn't go to the Alamo, not one anywhere near me. But my local Celebration Cinema had a "silence your phones" bit recorded by James Earl Jones as Vader that was pretty fucking awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Trailers I got were Civil War, Fantastic Beasts, and suddenly called Wave 5. Probably one or two more but nothing I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I got different trailers then some: Civil War, Wave 5, Warcraft, X-Men, Gods of Egypt, and oddly Zootopia. Just got back from seeing it, great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 My Alamo also should that clip where someone dubbed in James Earl Jones dialogue from his other movies over Vader and its outstanding. And it turns out we only got trailers - Civil War and X-Men (we realized it was only two when trying to remember what the third one was) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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