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[Bosco685]

It topped Civil War already??!! 

Edited April 28, 2019 by Bosco685

[Bosco685]

 

[jcjames]

4 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

It is a good point, in that for 5 years all these people were missing, somewhere, and now...

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Now they all just pop back into existence?! Without question?

 

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It's like "Cast Away"... only with 4 billion people suddenly showing up again after 5 years.

So, like what happened to Scott Lang, families will have changed, many moved on without half their loved ones... and then they're all back, and five years younger than everyone else.

Very hard to move on from that and start fresh and clean!

 

 

[Straw-Man]

now we'll have to watch a several-week chase---can it catch avatar?   #2, minimum, a certainty it would appear.

[Bosco685]

3 minutes ago, jcjames said:

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It's like "Cast Away"... only with 4 billion people suddenly showing up again after 5 years.

So, like what happened to Scott Lang, families will have changed, many moved on without half their loved ones... and then they're all back, and five years younger than everyone else.

Very hard to move on from that and start fresh and clean!

 

 

Oddly enough, NBC's Manifest has the same challenge...

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A flight disappears for 5 years (what is it with 5 years??), and then lands and everyone else is 5 years older other than the crew. Wild!

 

[jcjames]

2 minutes ago, Bosco685 said:

Oddly enough, NBC's Manifest has the same challenge...

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A flight disappears for 5 years (what is it with 5 years??), and then lands and everyone else is 5 years older other than the crew. Wild!

 

Never seen the show.

[Bosco685]

Just now, jcjames said:

Never seen the show.

It's pretty decent. NBC finally renewed it after a long pause. But the gap between the passengers and their families brings its own odd scenes. Like a twin boy reunited with his sister, and she is now 15-16.

[Bosco685]

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Avengers: Endgame shattered the bounds of realistic opening weekend predictions this weekend, with a towering $350 million domestic and $1.2 billion in its global debut (45% of which came from 3-D showings around the world). Domestically, the film earned a 2.23x multiplier (not bad considering the numbers) and snagged the biggest Thursday preview ($60 million), the biggest “pure Friday” ($96.7 million), the biggest single-day gross ($156.7 million on Friday counting the previews), the biggest Saturday ($109 million, down just 31% from Friday) and biggest Sunday grosses ($84.3 million) even when adjusted for inflation.

 

Speaking of Thursday previews, it earned just 17.1% of its opening weekend from Thursday alone, which was just a little more frontloaded than Infinity War (15.1% of its $258 million haul). Heck, it earned $290 million this weekend WITHOUT those previews. It sold nearly 40 million tickets in North America just this weekend. And yes, many of those tickets were in IMAX (the entire film was shot with IMAX cameras), Dolby, 3-D and other PLF formats.

 

Avengers: Endgame leapfrogged over the $258 million opening weekend of Avengers: Infinity War by 36%. That’s almost a record too, as Lost World earned 41% more ($74.6 million in 1997) than Batman Forever ($52.7 million in 1995). The Jurassic Park sequel held that milestone for 4.5 years until Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone opened with $90 million in late 2001. That’s a record in terms of longevity of this record, just ahead of the 4.17-year reign of Spider-Man ($114 million in May of 2002) before Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($135 million in July of 2006).

 

With the Avengers series potentially at an end and Star Wars concluding its Skywalker arc this December, I can’t see anything soon that could open anywhere near as high as these numbers. Unless theatrical moviegoing enjoys a resurgence of sorts even as streaming takes its place as a dominant entertainment distribution method, whereby new-to-cinema franchises can compete at levels almost normalized by the MCU and Lucasfilm, Avengers: Endgame may be the last record-breaking opening weekend for the foreseeable future.

 

Also, of note,  Endgame opened 36% higher than Infinity War, which is a bigger jump than the 35% jump from Deathly Hallows Part II ($125 million in 2010) to Deathly Hallows Part II ($169 million in 2011), despite the Harry Potter finale getting its first-ever 3-D conversion. That is a stunning accomplishment.

 

Where it goes from here is a good question. For the record, when your movie opens with $1.209 billion worldwide and $350 million domestic, there really are no “bad” post-release scenarios.

All of these numbers are incredible. But 36% higher than Infinity War is massive.

[paperheart]

9 minutes ago, Straw-Man said:

now we'll have to watch a several-week chase---can it catch avatar?   #2, minimum, a certainty it would appear.

re: box office, this is the only question that remains

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[Straw-Man]

30 minutes ago, Bosco685 said:

It's pretty decent. NBC finally renewed it after a long pause. But the gap between the passengers and their families brings its own odd scenes. Like a twin boy reunited with his sister, and she is now 15-16.

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never mind; figured it out.

 

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[Bosco685]

Crazy-immense!

 

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[chezmtghut]

39 minutes ago, Straw-Man said:

now we'll have to watch a several-week chase---can it catch avatar?   #2, minimum, a certainty it would appear.

Marvel films generally make 2.4+ x opening weekend, bringing it’s total box office to 2.9+ billion. I also expect domestic #’s will go up another 5+ million by tomorrow. 

32 minutes ago, Bosco685 said:

All of these numbers are incredible. But 36% higher than Infinity War is massive.

How can Disney say no to Feige making another 2 part Avengers film at the end of phase 6? In fact, I’d think they would ask him to prepare a similar outline for the next 10 years of Marvel films. 

[Bosco685]

6 minutes ago, chezmtghut said:

How can Disney say no to Feige making another 2 part Avengers film at the end of phase 6? In fact, I’d think they would ask him to prepare a similar outline for the next 10 years of Marvel films. 

I wonder if Disney execs would even ask. After this massive win, it would be expected.

[Straw-Man]

please, oh please kevin, one day give me an iconic ff flick!

[chrisco37]

3 minutes ago, Straw-Man said:

please, oh please kevin, one day give me an iconic ff flick!

If anyone can do it, it’s him.  

So we got that going for us, which is nice. 

[fantastic_four]

1 minute ago, chrisco37 said:

7 minutes ago, Straw-Man said:

please, oh please kevin, one day give me an iconic ff flick!

If anyone can do it, it’s him.  

He can find the gals and guys who do it.  He doesn't write the stuff, he just OKs it.  Avi Arad and the DC execs just leave all that up to the directors.

[Antpark]

Just saw it and loved it! Will definitely be seeing it again.

[Bosco685]

Box Office Pro captures much of the records broken at this time. And the region estimates.

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• The film earned an estimated $75,075 per theater in 4,662 North America theaters, topping Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ previous $59,982 record at 4,134 locations in December 2015. Infinity War earned $57,599 per theater at 4,474 locations last year.
• Endgame‘s per-theater average this weekend also bests the inflation-adjusted average of Return of the Jedi ($66,439) in its 1,002-theater debut 36 years ago. Jediearned $22,973 per location in original 1983 currency.
• In just five days, China has generated $330.5 million, representing the highest debut of all time for a local or Western film. That total already makes Endgame the fourth-highest grossing Western film ever in China. Opening day ($107.8 million, including midnights) was the biggest of all time, and Saturday ($81.7 million) was the biggest single day ever (local or Western, excluding midnights).
• Endgame‘s overall international start registers an estimated $859 million for the biggest overseas debut in history, besting Fate of the Furious ($443.15 million) by a staggering 94 percent. It also tops Infinity War‘s entire $640 million global debut, although that excluded China.
• Furthermore, Endgame posted new opening weekend records in 44 of its 54 open markets, as well as 29 single-day records in various markets.
• Marvel Studios now claims the two best global openings in history, six of the top ten domestically, and two of the top three overseas.

 

[1Cool]

Saw it last night and had to digest it a bit before writing anything.  First 2/3s is pretty slow but the last 1/3 was fantastic.  I left feeling a bigger connection with Hawkeye and Iron Man but Thor was the weak point in my mind.  I'd give it a B which is a bit of a shock considering the expectations and all the build up.  I'll watch it again in Netflix but definitely not seeing it again in the theaters. 

[Bosco685]

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