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

Started by AuraAngel8 pages

Star Wars is a cultural touchstone that was born in the movies. Of course it'll beat out any Avengers flick.

Originally posted by Bardock42
The prequels, and particularly the sale afterwards, may even have had a positive effect on the numbers of TFA.

I think so 👆

Avengers, prolly.

Avatar, hopefully.

It'll definitely beat Avengers and Jurassic World IMO. OW is just too high without even opening in China yet.

Should reach Titanic numbers. Obviously has a shot at Avatar given the OW, but will only get there if people really love it and go to watch it again and again and again.

I still can't believe how overhyped Titanic was....it was pretty good but ffs it made way more money than it should have. Of course Avatar sucked too...so....

Disney is just raping at the box office.

^ And Titanic made a few hundered million more in a 3d release a few years ago! Amazing. It's all Women loving it and dragging their boyfriends/partners and families for that.

Avatar was just such a huge leap in special effects. But I don't think it will keep that kind of value as a franchise. Meaning I doubt Avatar's 2, 3 and 4 will all make $2Billion+ each.

It will be interesting to see what happens when Avatar gets back to the box office after he finally finishes these films. I personally didn't find it appealing. Glad it exists but nothing I'd rave about based off the first film.

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

Originally posted by playa1258
Does Star Wars have a chance?

a chance? a CHANCE? better to ask if AOU stands a chance. answer: doubtful.

AOU has no chance at this point. Neither does A1 for that matter. Jurassic World may have a 10%-20% chance. Titanic's harder to predict. I'm gonna go with 50/50 on that one. Whilst others may think Avatar has the 50/50 chance, which is also a reaosnable assumption at this point.

It's not a question if it beats Avatar, it's by how much. Going of Hobbits multiplier of 3.6 we get 892 domestic.

Star Wars has a chance to beat Avatar domestically. WW on the other hand is a bit harder to gauge. I think it might end up making Titanic figures when everything's said and done.

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
Star Wars has a chance to beat Avatar domestically. WW on the other hand is a bit harder to gauge. I think it might end up making Titanic figures when everything's said and done.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking as well.

But Playa's right it will beat Avatar domestically with a decent multiplier.

But to beat Avatar WW it will have to have pretty strong legs. Because Avatar had ridiculous legs but SW has the advantage of a much bigger opening.

It will end up 2 WW at worst.

Originally posted by AuraAngel
Star Wars is a cultural touchstone that was born in the movies. Of course it'll beat out any Avengers flick.
Um, it's also a very good movie. I do like how you try to undermine that fact by just saying it's Star Wars.

Originally posted by CPT Space Bomb
Um, it's also a very good movie. I do like how you try to undermine that fact by just saying it's Star Wars.

Avatar is not an especially great movie and it is the most successful of all time(I think). Quality does not always correlate to success and vice versa.

Also do I follow you around telling you how biased you are for this film? No, because it's a movie and you're free to feel how you feel. Kindly get over, you'll be much happier.

Originally posted by AuraAngel
Avatar is not an especially great movie and it is the most successful of all time(I think). Quality does not always correlate to success and vice versa.

Also do I follow you around telling you how biased you are for this film? No, because it's a movie and you're free to feel how you feel. Kindly get over, you'll be much happier.

I didn't follow you around. I read the page that you posted the only reason TFA is going to do well is because it's Star Wars. Everyone else was talking about numbers, you were lowballing it; so I chimed in.

And Yes, Avatar isn't a great movie but TFA is highly acclaimed by critics and GA.

And THAT'S The main reason it's doing well, because people like it.

The main reason Avatar did well was because people liked it. 👆

Star Wars is more iconic to film than anything Marvel could possibly produce and this is the long awaited return to form after the subpar prequels. It is not even a contest frankly and that's why I didn't bring it up(though of the two, I prefer TFA to AoU by a pretty wide margin).

Originally posted by AuraAngel
The main reason Avatar did well was because people liked it. 👆
Correct. I didn't say otherwise.

Star Wars is more iconic to film than anything Marvel could possibly produce and this is the long awaited return to form after the subpar prequels. It is not even a contest frankly and that's why I didn't bring it up(though of the two, I prefer TFA to AoU by a pretty wide margin).

While that maybe used to be true, Marvel has cracked the 1.3 billion dollar range several times now. They are printing money at the movies. It's obvious that people are more into comic book movies than ever before.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens clearly has a chance at breaking Titanic's record especially at the pace it is going...