Can Star Wars: TFA beat Avengers: AOU at the box-office?

The Prequels ended on a good note with "Revenge of the Sith" IMO which would help the goodwill for SW as a franchise. And there is a generation of Prequel fans who will only contribute to Episode 7's success IMHO.

This film will bring all the generations of Star Wars fans together. Heck even my Mum wants to watch this. And she never saw any of the Prequels.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
You also need to factor in how much more prominent 3-d and Imax has become since then

I don't think episode 7 will have any problem in out grossing, Avengers

Financially speaking TPM was by far the biggest beast of the Prequel Trilogy just as TFA will likely be the biggest beast of the New Sequel Trilogy.

TFA is going to shatter box office records.

Originally posted by Impediment
TFA is going to shatter box office records.

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Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
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Originally posted by Darth Thor
Financially speaking TPM was by far the biggest beast of the Prequel Trilogy just as TFA will likely be the biggest beast of the New Sequel Trilogy.

Nothing sad about it. TPM had unreal hype since it was the return of SW. It was a major event film. Even if it was well recived, it's doubtful that either of the other two could have sold as many tickets.

It was the least received of the PT if I recall right, though I get why it sold because of the timing and all that.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
It was the least received of the PT if I recall right, though I get why it sold because of the timing and all that.

It was the least received because it also carried with it the highest expectations. But it was never going to be the best of the Trilogy, Episode 3 always was. And I personally feel AOTC is the least loved of the trilogy, not TPM. AOTC just didn't have the same level of expectation.

Anyway Disney realize that now about Expectations. And they've invested too much into Star Wars/Lucasfilm for people to be disappointed right at the start of it's Disney comeback.. So if anything they would have given it their best shot to make TFA the best movie they can make.

Star Wars TFA will come close to Avatar/Titanic numbers IMO

Originally posted by Insane Titan
Star Wars TFA will come close to Avatar/Titanic numbers IMO

That'd be Awesome.

So now the question is "How many days" before this sails past AOU? And then how many more days before it drives by A1 and JW?

So much for the Prequels leaving a sour taste in people 😉

The sour taste is still there, TFA makes it fade though.

At least on here it feels like TFA has made the Prequel fans come out.

Originally posted by queeq
The sour taste is still there, TFA makes it fade though.

Lol It's not even had a chance to do that yet. This had the Biggest OW of all time, with a massive amount of those tickets being pre-booked before anyone had even seen the film.

WOM hardly has a chance to spread OW, people were just cramming to see this for themselves.

So the Prequels clearly haven't had any negative effect at all (on the financial value of the Franchise).

It's had an INSANE OW and can make $2Bill WW without much difficulty from here on. Whether it beats Avatar or Titanic though will depend solely on it's own legs. No one will be able to blame the Prequels if it doesn't.

Well, I ENJOYED TFA a lot more than the PT. So no matter how well it did, it did a lot better with me. And since I'm not getting of that box office money, that's all that counts for me.

Originally posted by queeq
Well, I ENJOYED TFA a lot more than the PT. So no matter how well it did, it did a lot better with me. And since I'm not getting of that box office money, that's all that counts for me.

Exactly. We can only talk for ourselves and not the rest of the world.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
Lol It's not even had a chance to do that yet. This had the Biggest OW of all time, with a massive amount of those tickets being pre-booked before anyone had even seen the film.

WOM hardly has a chance to spread OW, people were just cramming to see this for themselves.

So the Prequels clearly haven't had any negative effect at all (on the financial value of the Franchise).

It's had an INSANE OW and can make $2Bill WW without much difficulty from here on. Whether it beats Avatar or Titanic though will depend solely on it's own legs. No one will be able to blame the Prequels if it doesn't.

The prequels, and particularly the sale afterwards, may even have had a positive effect on the numbers of TFA.

The PT did very well. The merchandise alone made more than the movies costs.
Plus... we all went to see them anyway. I saw all of them twice in the movies. And after that I needed a few years of therapy to get me out of that phase of denial and accept they were not that good.