Star Wars Episode 7 and Disney buy Lucas Film

[TordelBack]

Spot-on there, James. I found the film frustrating, because it felt like we were supposed to get an answer about Rey that had clearly changed during production and was then withheld, making this one teaser too many after 2 years of them, but Rey as she actually appeared was perfect - a terrific hero, in a trio of new heroes.

[Hawkmumbler]

Can we also talk about how, in the space of a few lines, Finn and Poe developed a better onscreen chemistry than anyone in the whole prequel trilogy?

[James Stacey]

Can we also talk about how, in the space of a few lines, Finn and Poe developed a better onscreen chemistry than anyone in the whole prequel trilogy?

It was certainly soft, not rough like sand.

[von Boom]

TFA is not the most successful film of all time, if you adjust for inflation.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm


But probably will be soon.

[JamesC]

Some of the stuff on that list is quite hard to believe.

American Graffiti was a bigger hit than Batman (1989), Superman, or any of the Lord of the Rings films?

[JOE SOAP]

TFA is not the most successful film of all time, if you adjust for inflation.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm


But probably will be soon.

They're US domestic box-office results not worldwide.

Avatar is still top of the money-heap (an astonishing $2.7 billion) and it'll be tough for any film to beat it, even Star Wars.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

[von Boom]

TFA is not the most successful film of all time, if you adjust for inflation.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm


But probably will be soon.

They're US domestic box-office results not worldwide.

Avatar is still top of the money-heap (an astonishing $2.7 billion) and it'll be tough for any film to beat it, even Star Wars.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

Are those adjusted for inflations as well?

[JOE SOAP]

Some of the stuff on that list is quite hard to believe.

American Graffiti was a bigger hit than Batman (1989), Superman, or any of the Lord of the Rings films?

In the US they were - adjusting for inflation.

[JOE SOAP]

Are those adjusted for inflations as well?

Not all of them but Avatar would still be the top earner of all time because it gained the benefit of the international market opening up and earning greater than the US box-office - several times in fact.

Avatar

Domestic:    $760,507,625    
+ Foreign:    $2,027,457,462   

[DaveGYNWA]

Didn't Avatar manage that amount because it was released twice - a 'special edition' with added footage, or something like that, was released a few months after it first came out but before it was released on DVD?

[JOE SOAP]

Didn't Avatar manage that amount because it was released twice - a 'special edition' with added footage, or something like that, was released a few months after it first came out but before it was released on DVD?

No; most of its money was made on initial release because of the anomaly of it being the first 'real' 3D film and the increased ticket price.

It made an extra $30 million or so worldwide during its re-release.

[I, Cosh]

Some of the stuff on that list is quite hard to believe.

American Graffiti was a bigger hit than Batman (1989), Superman, or any of the Lord of the Rings films?

There is a reason George was eventually able to make a ludicrously uncommercial space film just because he wanted to.

[JOE SOAP]

There is a reason George was eventually able to make a ludicrously uncommercial space film just because he wanted to.

Well FOX paid for the first film (which is why they will always own it). George paid for Empire, Jedi and the Prequels.

[DaveGYNWA]

No; most of its money was made on initial release because of the anomaly of it being the first 'real' 3D film and the increased ticket price.

It made an extra $30 million or so worldwide during its re-release.

No idea where I got that idea from then.

[JOE SOAP]

No idea where I got that idea from then.

Probably becuase it's insane Avatar could make that type of money.