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'Star Wars' Franchise Crosses $4 Billion, Eclipsing Disney's Lucasfilm Price (hollywoodreporter.com)
Combined, Disney and Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Force Awakens have surpassed $4.06 billion in ticket sales at the worldwide box office. That's more than what Disney paid to buy George Lucas' Star Wars franchise. From the Hollywood Reporter: While an interesting benchmark, it doesn't, of course, account for the hundreds of millions spent to produce and market the trio of films, or the fact that Disney splits box-office grosses with theater owners. Conversely, Disney has minted additional money from lucrative ancillary revenue streams, merchandising sales and theme park attractions. Opening in North America on Dec. 15, The Last Jedi zoomed past the $900 million mark on Thursday, finishing the day with $934.2 million globally, including $464.6 million domestically and $469.6 internationally (it doesn't land in China until Jan. 5). The sequel to The Force Awakens was directed by Rian Johnson, and has dominated the Christmas corridor. The Last Jedi will jump the $1 billion mark over New Year's weekend on its way to becoming the top-grossing 2017 release, eclipsing the $1.264 billion earned by fellow Disney title Beauty and the Beast. In December 2015, filmmaker J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens shattered numerous records on its way to grossing $2.068 billion globally, including an all-time best $936.7 million in North America, not accounting for inflation.
"We can film whatever we want, slap Star Wars on it and rake in the cash."
Makes me wonder if Disney will reduce the amount of cash they put in from now on, while taking the profits from the next couple of movies.
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i bet all that money has evaporated somewhere to show a loss on the balance sheet seeing as Harry Potter, order of the phoenix took $612m across all formats but apparantly made a $167m loss
http://deadline.com/2010/07/studio-shame-even-harry-potter-pic-loses-money-because-of-warner-bros-phony-baloney-accounting-51886/
Those links don't seem to work. Did you type them correctly?
No. Firstly, Ticket Sales does not equal Profit (Hollywood accounting will make very sure that "profit" looks nothing at all like reality in any case). Secondly, greed knows no bounds.
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And I bet all the money was processed in Ireland too. No tax, so sad.
I'm 50 years old. In 1977 I saw Star Wars in the theatre 13 times ("Star Wars" NOT "A New Hope").
I bought the comics. I had the toys. I read "Splinter of the Mind's Eye." I loved everything Star Wars.
Nevertheless.
People need to get over themselves. These movies are not the second coming of Christ. They are *never* going to be able to live up to fanboy expectations, so let those expectations go. See the movies, have a good time, enjoy the light sabers and the Falcon but stop getting so worked up about a 2.5 hours of popcorn fun.
But that doesn't make these good movies.
as creimer makes from one YouTube video.
There was a whole universe of non-Lucas Star Wars that was what made it enjoyable to me. They shit all over the intricately woven story spanning dozens of authors that had been wrought over the 15ish years that Lucas had sat idle before crafting another film, and between him and now Disney, have managed to shit all over those stories such that a fictional schism is the only way to resolve it, much like with the TOS vs TNG trekkies, those who were into the FASA/Starfleet Battles Klingons and assorted races, versus those who followed TNG and company when they changed them into an almost unrecognizable race.
For hardcore fans both of these events were slaps in the face. As I have said previously, the only real way to work around it is to boycott both universes and collaborate on new sci-fi universes owned and controlled by the fans, with restrictions/gentlemen's agreements on who does what with which characters, and on what are acceptable worldchanging events to weave into storylines. The potential is there, but for whatever reason, people seem to prefer to sheeple around the biggest assholes creative works, rather than banding together and forging their own, even if they will band together and forge derivative works of other's proprietary works to the same degree of effort.
We'll never know how much is spent on advertising for these Star War movies. But my expectation is 10 digits...
it won't last forever. Eventually the mediocrity will catch up to them and folks just won't care. Did you see all those ads they did encoraging parents to share star wars with their kids? That was desperation. The product couldn't stand on it's own without nostalgia. When those kids grow up in 10 years and are movie going teenagers their remember star wars as that funny little movie dad liked.
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tell him california was burning all autumn, why does he want more global warming!?
HUGE misconception and misunderstanding:
[Deluded defense of deus ex machina BULLSHIT redacted]
Deus ex machina BULLSHIT is still BULLSHIT.
Yes - midichlorians are a BULLSHIT deus ex machina contraption that solves nothing. Worse, they reduce the entire struggle in the Star Wars universe to a pissing contest between the genetically-chosen few.
Yoda's instruction of Luke in The Empire Strikes Back shows where this could have gone.
Instead Lucas reduced his universe to a series of conflicts between genetically-endowed Übermensch, no better in concept than Highlander II: The Quickening.
The Last Jedi apparently died in Return of the Jedi.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
If the recent movies have left you dissatisfied go check out some of the novels from the expanded universe. The new movies may ignore them, but they still exist. Some of them are absolutely fantastic. Maybe some day we'll see them made into films. We can hope at least.
How many times have I read that the reason for the very high food prices is that the theaters don't get keep revenue from the ticket sales? Is this not true? Have we been lied to and the reason the food prices are so high is simply that people will pay the absurd prices?
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Of Course, the fact that they have ABC to pitch SW in just about every show and segment doesn't hurt....
The key message of the last movie was the violent young white man learned the lessons of the brave older white women in the end. He was enlightened.
Star Wars is only relevant because it's Star Wars. That's it. It's middling at best.
How much longer will we deny the fact that Empire is all there is? I didn't want to admit it to myself. History has proven Empire wasn't so much part of an excellent *series* as it was part of excellent resurgence in cinema of the late 70s early 80s, which gave us stone cold classics like Empire, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, E.T.
Bottom line: I have felt completely gipped leaving the theatre after episodes 1,2,3,6,7,8. I can't stop slamming my fingers in the doorjamb, it seems.
Gonna put my penis in your butt now
Dude, you need to get laid.
You are welcome on my lawn.
i thought films were slumping at the box office and pirates were 'stealing" movie company profits?!?!
...from the new movies?
Star Wars and Empire are incredibly quotable, the dialogue is part of pop culture. Nothing I've seen from any of the new stuff bears repeating.
I imagine there will be a huge splash and a instant halt with the modern take on interesting movies meshed with modern visual and audio noise that tires easily
I just cant stand any modern action movie, its just an assult of noise on every sense the medium allows, and there's nothing to take away form it other than how shit the local cinema's sound system is along with low FPS flickery blury shit video
I can think of a few reasons why he's not getting laid enough.
Most of the money in the franchise is in toy licensing.
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Not enough midichlorians in his bloodstream, perhaps?
The dude sounds like a closet phrenologist. Maybe he needs to get laid, but nobody deserves the job of getting him there.
I wonder, just how original are the 'porgs'?
Is it maybe entirely coincidental that a frowny porg looks like grumpy cat? I don't think so.
This rumor that has been spread online about A New Hope being some disaster, that was only saved by Marcia Lucas coming to the rescue and re-editing into a classic film is FALSE.
As Lucas was shooting the film in England and Tunisia, an assembly edit was done by an editor. Lucas didn't get to see it, as he was shooting every day and seeing only dailies at night. That was typical of film making in those days, as the film had to go to a lab and be processed before it could be seen or cut. When shooting was done, Lucas was shocked to see the initial editor had cut the material in a very different way from what he intended. He went out and hired Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew to work on re-cutting the reels to HIS specifications. As some time had been lost with the assembly edit having to be thrown out, they were getting close to the end of the schedule. Lucas edited a portion of the film himself, though he didn't take a credit for it, and he asked his wife, who was an editor he trusted, to come in and help out with the last reel. Hirsch and Chew, who he also trusted, were too busy to get to it at that point. Marcia Lucas edited a large portion of the final space battle. Her edit was based on an edit Lucas had put together himself for ILM, using WWII fighter plane footage, to map out the battle shot by shot. That is the only part of the film she worked on. The film, although difficult to make, was never almost a disaster. That is an urban legend, that started when people were hating on old George for the prequels, and looking for a reason to say the same guy couldn't have possibly made the first trilogy. But hey, the same guy who made the Godfather I and II, also made The Godfather III. Artists get older and change. You can't make SW of GF by accident. You have to have the vision. Stop spreading this foolish urban legend. End rant.
Milk that goyim nostalgia until no fond memory is left untainted.
Cigarettes are also popular, bring a lot of money to their creators, but it does not mean that they are good.
I did not see this particular Star War movie, but i doubt that it is a cinematographic art. Frankly, I think it is a set of dorky cliches for kind of naive children and adults.
I may be wrong, but it is my impression.
A new meme for snowflakes is born as the franchise dies
Repeat what Mark Hamill said.... A good movie isn't one because of it's content but rather from it's box office profits.
God has blessed that man. In the future he is going to make millions for a days work just by being a force Ghost.
Disney has minted additional money from lucrative ancillary revenue streams
Disney is a huge toy company that uses really expensive movies to promote their stuff. The Porg creature is a good example, how much money they are going to make from this character alone.
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"Fire is hot, it must be caused by glowball warming!"
The fires in California are for three reasons. One, modern humans love to suppress fires because, you know, they burn stuff. Two, wildfires also burn up the "fuel" on the ground, dead wood and leaves and stuff, so there is a lot more unburned fuel for later fires when you put them out. Three, the Santa Ana winds are really good at providing fresh air to give the fires more oxygen. You know, like how a blacksmith bellows works?
Now you have all three parts of the fire triangle, heat (just needs a little spark like some asshole flicking his cigarette butt out the car window because he's too fucking lazy to empty an ashtray), fuel (lots of crap on the ground, plus even though they were banned years ago, there are probably still a lot of wood shingle roofs out there), and oxygen (winds).
No climate bullshit needed. Just keep putting out fires year after year until there's enough flammable crap on the ground to make the fire too big to put out.
Bottom line: I have felt completely gipped leaving the theatre after episodes 1,2,3,6,7,8.
I didn't. Oh, wait, that's because I never watched any of them. When Episode 1 came out, I waited, saw what people were saying about it, then didn't go. Most of what I know about Episode 1, I learned from that Weird Al song. No Jar Jar, no annoying little kid, no recycled "it's yet another death star all over again" plots, no SJW bullshit. I've heard that 2 and 3 weren't as bad as 1, but I'll pass.
I still like the original trilogy, but mostly the first movie, which is rough but fun. And I don't go out of my way to re-watch it.
I also gave up on Star Trek with not watching the "reboot" of a few years ago (I'm still cool with ZQ as Spock), but I had stopped watching that long before, back when UPN meant that I could only see it if I signed up for cable TV (I became a cord cutter back in 2001), because the only UPN station was in the next market over, just out of antenna range.
At least The Orville is coming back for another season. Time to put a bigger hard drive in my MythTV.
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In other words, nebulously defined value passes arbitrary round figure; no actual story here.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Last Jedi has grossed ~$360m at this point, $220m opening weekend so 140 since then. i.e. ticket sales are decelerating so fast they might not even hit $500m. This has been a flop, financially.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/w...
He spends too much time sucking dicks at Apple HQ?
I always thought that George Lucas should have asked for a couple billion more. Why did he sell so low?
The Last Jedi sucked. It really sucked bad in every way. The entire mythos has been ruined. All the characters I cared about have been ruined. And the new feminist crapfest has not come up with anything compelling.
I have watched every Star Wars, in theaters, since the first Star Wars in 1977. I doubt I will every watch another. I don't care what happens any more.
"I have felt completely gipped"
"Gipped" is a racial slur against gypsies. I stopped using that word when I learned this.
> "Gipped" is a racial slur against gypsies. I stopped using that word when I learned this.
"Gypsies" is a racial slur against the Roma. I stopped using that word when I learned this.
They will make a fortune on toys, franchising deals, Happy Meals, and they will continue to use and expand their starwars experience at theme parks to draw in park goers who will pay $$$$$$ to get into those parks to see StarWars stuff. Not everybody can stomach disney princesses for more than a couple visits. StarWars is timeless.
I don't think "deus ex machina" means what you think it means. If the midichlorians had somehow saved our heroes from nowhere, that would make sense.
What they are is retcon.
> I don't think "deus ex machina" means what you think it means
He is using it properly. Although it's typical usage is a system to solve plots, that is not its only use, and today it basically means anything that you pull out of your ass and stick in the story.
> What they are is retcon.
I can be more than one thing.
Then the term has been corrupted by people who have used it without understanding it, so it's now effectively useless.
Can you be an alien space bat?
Is that they brought appreciation to the prequel trilogy. It really takes something powerful to make me nostalgic about THAT.