captainkidd
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Come on, be fair to Potter. Potter had a few IMAX screens, but not nearly as much as the Avengers and no 3D. You're talking a $10 ticket versus a nearly $20 ticket.
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Come on, be fair to Potter. Potter had a few IMAX screens, but not nearly as much as the Avengers and no 3D. You're talking a $10 ticket versus a nearly $20 ticket.
Captain Chaos
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So? Who cares how it got there... Fact is, it got there... it shattered the record... I don't care if it opened in 10 times the amount of IMAX theaters... It broke the opening weekend record... Can't take that away or discredit it....
jt04
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Who or what is this 'potter' you speak of?
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Cosmic Commando
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The last Harry Potter movie (previous record holder) was in 3D. I remember that they didn't have enough time to convert the first half of Deathly Hallows to 3D, but the second half was converted. As for the number of IMAX screens, I'd bet the number was similar. Every theater owner would want Potter/Avengers on their IMAX screen and how many new screens have come online since July of last year?
WOW! 200 million dollars in three days! $642 million in 12 days worldwide! And maybe the best part is that this was huge all over the world; they can leverage this in... well, everywhere but WDW.
WOW! 200 million dollars in three days! $642 million in 12 days worldwide! And maybe the best part is that this was huge all over the world; they can leverage this in... well, everywhere but WDW.
captainkidd
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If you're truly interested in box office analysis, you'd care. Not saying that not caring is wrong. Most people shouldn't care. I don't care how much or little money it makes, but it is interesting to me, just as John Carter was. I studied this back in high school and have been into it ever since.
By all early tracking, The Dark Knight will sell more tickets, but won't make more money opening weekend. The effect that 3D has on the business of today's movie success is mind boggling.
captainkidd
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Avengers had the widest IMAX and 3D release ever. It was filmed in 3D, not converted like Deathly Hallows was.
GLaDOS
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No it wasn't. All the Marvel films that have been in 3-D were all converted. The first comic book movie to be filmed in 3-D is Amazing Spider-man.
captainkidd
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Yeah, you're right. It was Spider-Man that was done in 3D. My bad.
Hope DC has as much good fortune with TDK. I like Marvel, but have always preferred DC. A bit darker.
Gregoryp73
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I'm not sure how DC would deny putting a "justice league" movie together after this...
Captain Neo
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WB (DC's owner) is run by retards. We'll be looking to get a decent Superman film.
G00fyDad
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Trust me, they'll think of something. And even if they do, without having any decent starter movies other than the Dark Knight series and the upcoming Superman (Hopefully it is decent) they have no real platform to jump the JL movie off from. So if they throw it together with Christian Bale, Henry Cavill, and Ryan Reynolds, then a bunch of other untested actors for the other roles then it will suck. They couldn't even get the Wonder Woman movie, with Adrianne Palicki launched. If they throw it together without the characters being officially set with their own movies ,other than Batman, then it will tank.
G00fyDad
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Cosmic Commando
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According to this article, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 had a $15.2M domestic IMAX opening weekend, a record at the time. They give the per-screen average as $55,000, which works out to 276.36repeating screens. Here, it says that Avengers was on 275 IMAX screens. Avengers may have been the largest due rounding on the HP numbers, but it was darn sure close. I think it is totally fair to compare the two movies: both event movies with multiple lead-ins, established fanbase, released in consecutive years so marginal ticket price inflation, both in 3D, both in wide IMAX releases... Avengers just won.
Captain Chaos
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I don't care how it got there... Iger doesn't care how it got to $200 million either... Only that it DID get to $200 million... The money is the bottom line, not ticket sales... I don't care if the movie only sold 5 tickets... If it makes $200 million opening weekend, has high marks as this movie has, and shatters the previous record of a movie which ALSO came out in 3D and IMAX, that is all that matters... profit and increase to the bottom line...
Captain Chaos
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But Cap Kidd says Avengers opened in MORE IMAX theaters than Potter did... Do you mean someone didn't have facts??? Noooo can't me... a WDW Magic member posting without having the facts to back up their claim... Never heard of such hogwash LOL...
Guess I can say, with comfort, that Avengers shattered Potters record since they opened on even footing...
NoChesterHester
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So now that we may be seeing Avatar's #1 status go bye bye... Are we going to see the Avenger Land in Animal Kingdom.
Only joking of course.
Only joking of course.
captainkidd
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But Cap Kidd says Avengers opened in MORE IMAX theaters than Potter did... Do you mean someone didn't have facts??? Noooo can't me... a WDW Magic member posting without having the facts to back up their claim... Never heard of such hogwash LOL...
Guess I can say, with comfort, that Avengers shattered Potters record since they opened on even footing...
If you look at the number of 3D screens Avengers opened on, it far outnumbered the screens DH2 opened on. IMAX has been a major format now for a number of years. 3D just exploded with Avatar and since then, RealD 3D. It's common sense - If you take a higher priced ticket, and multiply it by any given number, the higher priced ticket is going to make more money. DH2 opening weekend 3D numbers accounted for 43% of ticket sales. Avengers opening weekend 3D numbers accounted for 52% of ticket sales. It's impossible to tell as they don't release ticket sales numbers, but it's safe to say, they both sold a very close amount of tickets, but yes, Avengers sold more. The only movies, in recent years, that I would say sold more tickets than The Avengers opening weekend would be The Dark Knight and The Hunger Games, both which did over $150 million, but were not released in standard 3D. I can't say for certain if The Dark Knight's IMAX release was in 3D, but if I remember, it was not. The Hunger Games limited IMAX release was not in 3D, and had no standard 3D screens at all.
Captain Chaos
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It's excuses and a discredit... Avengers broke the opening weekend record... And it is very possible this can go on to beat Avatar... And there is nothing anyone can say that will or can take anything away from the amount of business this movie has done so far and will do in the weeks to come...
