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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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Space is fake. The Earth is flat. The eclipses prove it.
Solar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/230976895
Corona not shaped in a spherical configuration; orients toward Earth. Corona lines can be observed to move faster than the speed of light. Light of the corona can be observed on the back of the moon. Light of the chromosphere can be observed on the back of the moon. Light of protuberences can be observed on the back of the moon. Sun and Moon same size and near. Wiki: Allais Effect
Lunar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/92378881
Irregular shadow shape, progression. Shadow is black, then changes color to reddish: Shadows don't change color. Moon glow of uneclipsed portion increases as shadow becomes reddish, detail lost. Moon has no rotation(see Nikola Tesla): we always see the same face. Moon emits own light. Craters not from impacts: Too round.
No model of the lunar eclipse correctly captures it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/10/06/why-does-the-moon-turn-red-during-a-lunar-eclipse/
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/scottsdale?iso=20140415
software:Stellarium 0.16.1 Next lunar eclipse: January 30/31, 2018 North America
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/
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.
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
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...
HUGE misconception and misunderstanding:
Some people have argued (especially most of the movie journalists) that the Midichlorian thing ruined the "Force" concept. They said that it took away the mystisism and the whole magic. This is not the case! These people and I'm sure most people in general didn't understand what the Midichlorians were all about. The magic and the mystic setting of the Force has not been diminished one bit. The whole issue has actually been brought to a more detailed level that makes us understand how the whole thing works. Lets continue...
The critics and most people thought that the midichlorians turned out to be the force. As if the midichlorians are the force. And these people have completely misunderstood the whole thing. If you look deeper and understand what the midichlorians are you will find out it was an ingenious and very necsesary addition to Starwars. And it basically explains everything that was missing from the whole force issue.
How come just anyone in the SW universe cannot recieve the necessary training, put on a robe, pickup a lightsaber and become a jedi? How come only a rare minority are able to become a jedi? How come no matter how hard most people were to train, they could never attain those abilities? What makes that selected few so special?
HERE IT IS:
The Force is a powerful and mystical energy field that surrounds, combines and penetrates us. It surrounds all living and none living things. It exists in the essence of all existance. It is an ever powerful, supernatural, predominant phenomenon that is everywhere in the universe. That, is what The Force is and nothing in TPM tampers with the above defenition of it. (The concept of midichlorians does not tamper with or degrade the force at all, hence the misconception I talked about - Lets see what the midiclorians are...)
The Midichlorians are not "the Force", and do not CONTRIBUTE anything TO the force. The force exists with or without the Midichlorians. Or in other words: The Midichlorians have nothing to do with the Force's existance. The force is the almighty, mystic, supernatural power as we have known since the OT (and as I have described above) whilst the Midichlorians are a life form - But a very special lifeform ==> The Midichlorians enable us to be aware of the Force's existance. - Qui Gon in TPM:" Without the Midichlorians, we would have no knowlidge of the Force. They continualy speak to us telling us the will of the Force".
(Look at all the implications in these last few lines: being aware of the forces existance; implies that the Force exists whether we had known about it or not, and had the Midichlorians had existed or not. "Telling us the will of the Force"; really tells us about the greatness of the force and how humble we and the midichlorians are.) Now lets move on to the main issue...
WHAT ARE THE MIDICHLORIANS ALL ABOUT AND WHY WAS IT SO NECCESSARY TO INTRODUCE THEM?:
Why is that only a very few are able to become Jedi? What is the special element about these people? Remember Midichlorians reside within all living cells, in all living things. Everyone has the Midichlorians. And they are not mere microbes they themeselves are a very special and mystical lifeform; Remember: "Without the Midichlorians life could not exist" and "They continually speak to us telling us the will of the Force". Here is the answer and I think you're gonna like it:
An excessive amount of Midichlorians enables that person to go beyond the one way relationship with the Force ==> Instead of just being under the influence of the force (like all living things), it enables him to interact with it. To tap into the force; to "Use the Force". To Enter it's vast area of influence and manipulate objects and other living things; To attain lightning-quick reflexes and an explicit sense of awarness of the future, the past and of all his surroundings through the forces control over destiny... To become one with the force and asc
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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The Last Jedi apparently died in Return of the Jedi.
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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.
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
Most of the money in the franchise is in toy licensing.
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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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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.
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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.
Is that they brought appreciation to the prequel trilogy. It really takes something powerful to make me nostalgic about THAT.