Star Wars - A CASH COW.
Just because i'm sick of all the other threads about Yoda loosing or Sidious Loosing, or my grandmother turning to the darkside. I thought I'd be different and enter reality for a little bit by this thread.
Since the release of Episode III during its 3 - 4 day run at the box office has made a staggering $158 Million. His other movies never made that much in one opening.
Lucas is an absolute genious. To come out an Epic that's made him Billions. Not just the movies but with all the merchandising as well, toys, promos, endorsments and so on...
Star Wars has grossed him over 17 Billion dollars. Damn, that's a whole lot of money. It's probably the best way to make money from almost well everyone....
Good points...
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/f38/t342969.html
I mean it's not just the movies...
Episode III made 303 Milllion worldwide...
But think of the tons of cash Lucas will be getting after Post-Release of this movie.... Merchandising has Episode III or rehash of Star Wars tirlogy all over it, from granola bars to tampons... Who would of that the a Low Budget film made to be joke could become one of the worlds most beloved and followed epics of all time... Lucas gets props, but that muther****er better do 7,8,9...
yes and also note the amount SW A new hope made in late 70d's would be over a billion dollars in todays money. I am talking domestic of course!
Star Wars Fox $1,139,965,40 adjusted
$460,998,007 (RAW Total made in 1977 and 1997)
The latest Star Wars movie has broken three Guinness World Records, it was announced today.
Guinness World Records editor Craig Glenday said: “We have been on the look-out for new records to include in the 2006 edition of Guinness World Records and have paid particular attention to the new Star Wars film.
The new records will feature in the Stop Press Section of the 2006 edition of Guinness World Records, out in September.
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Re: Star Wars - A CASH COW.
Originally posted by Jedi Styles
Just because i'm sick of all the other threads about Yoda loosing or Sidious Loosing, or my grandmother turning to the darkside. I thought I'd be different and enter reality for a little bit by this thread.Since the release of Episode III during its 3 - 4 day run at the box office has made a staggering $158 Million. His other movies never made that much in one opening.
Lucas is an absolute genious. To come out an Epic that's made him Billions. Not just the movies but with all the merchandising as well, toys, promos, endorsments and so on...
Star Wars has grossed him over 17 Billion dollars. Damn, that's a whole lot of money. It's probably the best way to make money from almost well everyone....
and since he is divorced his ex-wife gets half that.....your grandmother is Darth Plagurious?!....that is AWESOME!!!!!
Funny...already REVENGE OF THE SITH is the second highest grossing picture of the year, only less than $5 Million behind the total gross for HITCH.
Likewise it is already the 93rd highest domestic grossing picture of all time and 126th highest worldwide grossing!
It's really great to see SITH reigning over the Opening Day, Single Day, 3-Day, 4-Day, and 5-Day gross records.
Likewise it is tied for fastest to reach $100 million with SPIDER-MAN and THE MATRIX RELOADED. Chances that it will beat SPIDER-MAN 2's 8 days to $200 million are almost certain as SITH only needs another $27.2 million between Tuesday and Thursday to reach the mark. However chances of that are slim since no mid week day will likely breach $10 million.
Keeping this in mind...It is more important that we see...and pay...to see the film on either Tuesday, Wednesday, and/or Thursday to beat the Spidey sequel record.
GROSS UPDATE:
REVENGE OF THE SITH grosses $9,907,771 on Tuesday, in keeping with my predition that it would be tough to actually break $10 million on Tuesday - Thursday. This puts SITH at $182,710,278 in six days easily becoming the highest grossing film of 2005.
This also gives the film the record for 6-day grosses over SPIDER-MAN 2 by just under $2.7 million and 10th highest Tuesday gross.
However, it will never come close to having a decent Wednesday record, as most major blockbusters have their opening day on Wednesday. Unfortunatly, SITH needs over $10 million to gain the record for highest opening week held by SPIDER-MAN 2 at $192,085,360. This record won't fall guys...unless we all go see it again today. Is it possible? Absolutely, look how close Tuesday's gross was. Likely? No, not really, no.
Likewise it needs just over $17 million to reach the $200 million dollar mark. The record is 8 days, again by SPIDER-MAN 2. Most likely, SITH will tie the Spidey sequel here. Hopefully we will tie this record on Thursday.
Everyone...go see REVENGE OF THE SITH again today! I know I will be!
Originally posted by tlbauerle
GROSS UPDATE:REVENGE OF THE SITH grosses $9,907,771 on Tuesday, in keeping with my predition that it would be tough to actually break $10 million on Tuesday - Thursday. This puts SITH at $182,710,278 in six days easily becoming the highest grossing film of 2005.
This also gives the film the record for 6-day grosses over SPIDER-MAN 2 by just under $2.7 million and 10th highest Tuesday gross.
However, it will never come close to having a decent Wednesday record, as most major blockbusters have their opening day on Wednesday. Unfortunatly, SITH needs over $10 million to gain the record for highest opening week held by SPIDER-MAN 2 at $192,085,360. This record won't fall guys...unless we all go see it again today. Is it possible? Absolutely, look how close Tuesday's gross was. Likely? No, not really, no.
Likewise it needs just over $17 million to reach the $200 million dollar mark. The record is 8 days, again by SPIDER-MAN 2. Most likely, SITH will tie the Spidey sequel here. Hopefully we will tie this record on Thursday.
Everyone...go see REVENGE OF THE SITH again today! I know I will be!
'Star Wars' celebrates its 28th anniversary today. On May 25, 1977, the original movie opened at just 32 theaters.
The final movie, 'Revenge of the Sith,' bowed at 3,661 theaters and
continues the series' record-breaking ways. Records added through Tuesday include:
No. 1 Movie of 2005
Top 6-day Opening
Top 5-day Opening
Also, Revenge of the Sith actually only needs to generate ANYTHING larger than $9,375,082 today in order to beat Spider-Man 2's record of highest opening week.
#1 Opening Week (Currently)= Spider-Man 2 $192,085,360
Revenge of the Sith (Currently) $182,710,278
$182,710,278+$9,375,082=$192,085,360
Now given the fact that ROTS made $9,907,771 yesterday (Tuesday) there is a very good chance of ROTS making ANYTHING larger than $9,375,082 today (Wednesday) meaning it has the opening week record within it's grasp.
May the force be with us.....
I went again today and took my father, who hadn't seen it yet. While more of us hopefully did this today...it was just another craptastic Harkins Theatres presentation from a shit projectionist and either faulty equipment or a bad reel. Right when Palps reveals he is a Sith to Anakin, the audio clicked from Dolby Digital to booming static shitty analog making it nearly impossible to follow the tempting conversation. Harkins Theatres sucks.
Originally posted by manny321
8 million by Return of the king.guys that 17 million number is in box office world: Record shattering. Beat the old record by double. It will get the opening day and single day record which is held by spiderman 1 for a 39 million opening day and 44.5 million by shrek 2 for biggest single day.
great to hear that because as you can tell by the message below my user name,I hate one of those movies you mentioned with a passion. 😄 💃 💃