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Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com)
New submitter henrydan798 writes to note that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set a new record for ticket sales, becoming the fastest movie ever to earn a billion dollars at the till. As the L.A. Times reports, The latest installment in the "Star Wars" franchise grossed an estimated $153.5 million in the U.S. and Canada in its second weekend, beating the lower end of analyst expectations of $140 million. This drives the J.J. Abrams-directed picture to a to-date domestic gross of $544.5 million.
"The Force Awakens," which cost an estimated $200 million to produce, debuted last weekend to record domestic ticket sales of $248 million. It also grossed $281 million overseas for a global total of $529 million, topping the previous worldwide debut benchmark set in June by "Jurassic World" ($525 million). This week, with an international estimated gross of $546 million to date, the film became the fastest to surpass $1 billion globally.
Were any of those dollars yours? If so, do you think they were well spent?
I watched Star Wars 1, 2 and 3 when they came out. When they released 4, 5 and 6 and called them "1, 2 and 3", I decided these couldn't be worthwhile. No way I'm going to see this new film, created by Disney.
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It was always like this. I remember being deluged Star Wars toys in the 80s too. Nothing has changed. The original movies also weren't much good. I liked them as a kid and watched them when the came on at Christmas but now I find them utterly unwatchable. This isn't the case for everything I watched as a kid. e.g. Back To The Future is still fun.
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Way off-topic, but: In English, ass means either donkey or (colloquially, and less common now), stupid person. Arse means backside (Saxon derivation, as I recall). some time under 100 years ago, Americans started substituting ass for arse and now use ass to mean all three things. I'm not sure exactly when this happened - the two English definitions of ass are in the 1901 edition of Websters.
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It didn't so well work on the level of being original or even fully making sense within its own universe.
Isn't funny how the Force Awakens is able to make us think of the good points of the prequels.
The largest CRT display device I ever saw was about 30 feet by 20 feet high in a football stadium. Most people didn't know it was even a CRT display though, so it probably didn't matter. It was one of the huge electronic signs on a scoreboard, where the individual pixels were actually CRTs instead of light bulbs or LEDs like is done now. A heck of a lot of current went through that display to make it work though.... something like 2-3 Megawatts for just the one display if I remember the load numbers properly.
I think a couple of those old CRT-based displays may even still be in service, although they are getting pretty dated right now.