Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

I have been avoiding it. Will just make me sad.

Zapatta said:

I made it to 50 minutes. If it was a theater I'd have asked for my money back at the 20 min mark.

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You missed the daring jaku rescue and Rose and Finn's budding romance

Did you get to see Leia Poppins??

Chukzombi said:

fired?
Star Wars BACKLASH: Disney STOPS Rian Johnson trilogy after Last Jedi fan boycott?

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Star Wars 9 leak: This NEW Kylo Ren and Knights of Ren fight scene is NOT a flashback?

Can't pull a direct video link but CNN talking about sunsetting the franchise.

The drops and trend is real.

Main trilogy trend:

TFA - 2 billion.

TLJ - 1.3 billion


Anthology trend:

Rogue One - 1 billion

Solo - 392 million


Its a major problem. Solo needed 500 million to recoup costs which is why we are seeing major shakeups and projects put on hold.

That's what they need, a dose of reality.

Every film should be ( IS, let's face it ) a huge gamble financially. And all the mistakes / mis-steps they've made, turning their back on the established fan-base, pushing agendas, list goes on. All that, has damaged the brand.

Looking through the threads here, there are multiple posters who are saying "fuck these guys, I'm gonna wait till it's on a streaming site, they're not getting another dollar outta me!!"

So that's good . . . also fire K K

jayrebb said:

Star Wars 9 leak: This NEW Kylo Ren and Knights of Ren fight scene is NOT a flashback?

Can't pull a direct video link but CNN talking about sunsetting the franchise.

The drops and trend is real.

Main trilogy trend:

TFA - 2 billion.

TLJ - 1.3 billion


Anthology trend:

Rogue One - 1 billion

Solo - 392 million


Its a major problem. Solo needed 500 million to recoup costs which is why we are seeing major shakeups and projects put on hold.

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I find great comfort and reassurance in the fact that, no matter how bad things look, this SJW faggotry is always punished by Big Papa Capitalism.

Gamma Rays said:

. . . also fire K K

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That bitch should be launched with a trebuchet.

Chanur said:

If episode 9 comes back crushed at the box office it will get their attention. Right now they can blame it on the side films not being as popular. One of the main movies doing something like 500M though would be a big deal.

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i wish they reported in ticket sales volume rather than revenue. They can (and do) pull shady shit to pad their revenue numbers.

Defiant Theater Owners Are Refusing To Play ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’

Box office numbers can be spun a lot of ways, merchandising can't. So when Hasbro came out with their clever line of "we started selling TLJ toys too early" we laugh and know it's full of shit cause padding the sales numbers early saved them from an even bigger hit as the movie came out and sales dropped off a cliff.

i cant imagine their target audience, small children would even want to play with a luke, leia, finn, rose action figure. or some of the ships. as a kid i had luke, vader, obi wan, an xwing and a tie fighter. i renacted scenes from the first movie. what fucking scene is little jimmy going to renact from TLJ?

Quaid said:

i wish they reported in ticket sales volume rather than revenue. They can (and do) pull shady shit to pad their revenue numbers.

Defiant Theater Owners Are Refusing To Play ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’

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Never understood why ticket numbers isn't the standard. I realize that inflation is a thing and therefore movies selling far less tickets can make just as much money as movies of old, but it's a terribly misleading metric to measure success. You don't see professional sports teams spouting off how much money they made for a home game's ticket sales, you see the number of butts in the seats. Kind of, I know they fudge the hell out of that too.

Movie success is measured in profit, they don't care how much of a following / fanbase develops as almost all movies are not expected to expand into TV series or novels at all.

Hell, they steal existing fanbases and novels just to make some more $$$ without any care after.

Fadaar said:

Never understood why ticket numbers isn't the standard. I realize that inflation is a thing and therefore movies selling far less tickets can make just as much money as movies of old, but it's a terribly misleading metric to measure success. You don't see professional sports teams spouting off how much money they made for a home game's ticket sales, you see the number of butts in the seats. Kind of, I know they fudge the hell out of that too.

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I think it is a combination of context and what is impressive. When youre in an arena and they tell you the turnstile number, it seems even more impressive, because you are all collectively sharing that event together. , that really isn't true for a movie, unless youre seeing an indie movie that's in like 15 or less theaters.

You can find the per theater opening average. Eighth Grade and Isle of Dogs are 1 and 2, Infinity War and BP are 3 and 4 this year. Big box office movies tend to drop off in this metric tho, once Oscar movie season rolls around (TLJ was 15th last year, and the number one big box office movie, with numbers between IW and BP)

Plus I assume Sports teams pick attendance to obfuscate the amount they are boning people in prices a bit. We are all aware of how much movie theaters bone us, so we want to see what movie did it best.

The problem is it all gets a bit muddled too with how much difference in the prices cinemas charge per ticket.

Here we have a half price Tuesday. So they don't charge as much there. I know my local cinema has a Gold Lounge with premium seats popcorn included and the tickets are double. Different prices for seniors / kids. Plus 3D showings cost a little more.

And that's just in the one place, other cinemas, country town or older ones with one screen would charge different.

And all that for the same film.