In the past it helps the older movie a lot more. Notice Zootopia's 70% increase on Dory's opening weekend:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/ch ... =25&p=.htm

Yeah I meant that they would want to help IW as much as possible in this case but yes those drive-in numbers are wacky and there is no way you can calculate the boost on any particular movie. Going by the past I guess on IW's OW BP might see a slight bump in its gross.

Total Sold Ticket sales as of 3/26

Avengers- 72M
BlackPanther- 70M
DarkKnight- 68M
Age of Ultron- 52M

Damn!! It still has a month to go and I am assuming those numbers for rest of the movies are their total tickets sold? I don't remember those movies selling tickets for more than a month in advance.

Yep these are estimated total tickets sold, will be interesting to see where Infinity War ends up. I'm thinking in the 60 to 65 Million range

I think it will do more than $72m by it's release date

These are total number of tickets sold during their theater runs If IW were to sell 72m tickets before release its opening Day/Weekend would be $700m

I thought this was to compare IW so my mistake and I thought that meant total BO numbers and not admissions before previews.

It's official this club has successfully doubled it's original target number! $650,699,634

We Neva Froze!!

Mission Accomplished!
Super Hero Movies
1- The Avengers- $623,279,547
2- The Dark Knight- $533,345,358
3- Avengers: Age of Ultron- $459,005,868
4- The Dark Knight Rises- $448,139,099
5- Wonder Woman- $412,563,408

Pretty Much a done deal now will end in at #3 all time slot.
Other Movies
2- Avatar- $760,507,625
3- Titanic- $659,363,944 (Goes down by next Sunday)
4- Jurassic World- $652,270,625 (passes likely Tuesday)
6- Star Wars: The Last Jedi- $619,463,731
8- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story- $532,177,324
9- Beauty and the Beast- $504,014,165
10- Finding Dory- $486,295,561

Just amazing as well-

*Jurassic World- $624,083,950 at 45 days then earning between days 46 and 161 end of run ($28,186,675) First day Under a million #46

Black Panther accounts for 33.65% of all Domestic gross for 2018 out of 166 releases

I think its 70/30 right now to get to 700m

Looks like we are a day early! On Day 46 The King has collected $652.5M

All Time Domestic Movies
2- Avatar- $760,507,625
3- Titanic- $659,363,944 (Goes down by next Sunday)
4- Jurassic World- $652,270,625
6- Star Wars: The Last Jedi- $619,463,731
8- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story- $532,177,324
9- Beauty and the Beast- $504,014,165
10- Finding Dory- $486,295,561

Using the ticket-price when Titanic grossed $600m, Bland Panther would be at just $325m now. So yeah, some perspective.

Ticketing back

I guess it makes more sense for me to do it this way instead of dealing with these insane huge dollar figures for films made 30 years ago.

Yeah but with cheaper tickets more people would have gone as well. I wonder how Titanic would have done with pricing at today's cost and competition? One other thing to consider Titanic has had 2 re-releases to pad it's total.

1997- $600,788,188
2012 (3D)- $57,884,114
2017 (20th Anniv)- $691,642

On the weekend of March 20th1998, three months after release, Titanic made $17m.

On March 20 2018 Titanic would be getting released on itunes.

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Which is why I said only $600m.

I do not believe more people would have gone if tickets were cheaper. But perhaps more celebs would have booked out entire auditoriums to pad its total as well. It works both ways. Long-story-short: Titanic ain't "going down". Not by a long shot.

Yep I don't know why re-releases came into picture, it was clear that the comparison was to the original runs.



That's not true. You do realize that TGS and to a smaller extent Jumanji are still in theaters right? If in today's market a studio like Paramount (lol) would have struck a gold mine and get a film making $17m over weekend I bet they would have pushed the DVD release date.

Looks like we'll settle it right at #3 all time, wonder if it will ever see a re-release to pad it total.

All Time Domestic Movies
2- Avatar- $760,507,625
3- Titanic- $659,363,944
4- Jurassic World- $652,270,625
6- Star Wars: The Last Jedi- $619,463,731
8- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story- $532,177,324
9- Beauty and the Beast- $504,014,165
10- Finding Dory- $486,295,561

More perspective

Estimated Tickets Sold (Initial Run)

1. Gone with the Wind (MGM) - 200 million
2. Star Wars (Fox) - 142.7 million
3. The Sound of Music (Fox) - 142.4 million
4. The Ten Commandments (Paramount) - 131 million
5. Titanic (Paramount) - 128.3 million
6. Jaws (Universal) - 128.1 million
7. E.T. (Universal) - 124.3 million
8. Doctor Zhivago (MGM) - 124.1 million
9. The Force Awakens (Disney) - 108.1 million
10. The Exorcist (WB) - 103.2 million
11. Ben-Hur (MGM) - 98 million
12. Avatar (Fox) - 95.9 million
13. The Sting (Universal) - 89.1 million
14. Jurassic Park (Universal) - 86.2 million
15. The Graduate (Avco Embassy) - 85.5 million
16. The Phantom Menace (Fox) - 84.8 million
17. Return of the Jedi (Fox) - 80.9 million
18. Jurassic World (Universal) - 79 million
19. The Empire Strikes Back (Fox) - 78.8 million
20. The Godfather (Paramount) - 78.6 million
21. Forrest Gump (Paramount) - 78.5 million
22. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Paramount) - 77.2 million
23. The Avengers (Disney) - 76.8 million
24. Thunderball (United Artists) - 74.8 million
25. Fantasia (Disney) - 74.7 million
26. The Lion King (Disney) - 74.6 million
27. The Dark Knight (WB) - 74.2 million
28. Black Panther (Disney) - 72.4 million
29. Shrek 2 (Dreamworks) - 71.5 million
30. Grease (Paramount) - 70.8 million

Fox - 6
Paramount - 6
Universal - 5
Disney - 5
MGM - 3
Warner Brothers - 2
United Artists - 1
Dreamworks - 1
AVCO Embassy - 1

This is still unbelievably impressive though. And it's still going and will probably go up four more spots by next week, at least.

It's also kind of amazing how far Fox and Paramount have fallen.

Don't think it will see a re-release and even if it does might not see a big total. I think this and WW were hits because they caught the movement and would do better at home media.

A 4.0 multiplier from this weekend puts it on track for a $690 million total - agonizingly close to $700 million. If it maintains these legs and manages to stay in multiplexes to the end of the month, I could see Disney doing some double feature deal with Infinity War to get it the rest of the way. They still haven't announced a release date for the DVD yet, so I imagine they're waiting for a June release? Probably the Tuesday before Father's Day (June 12) at the latest.

And it gets worse when you account for the % of tickets sold compared to US population.

In that regard, I believe Gone with the Wind is the only movie ever to sell more tickets in its initial run than the US population at the time of its release (around 130m people).

I think we'll end up with around 75 million tickets sold and another 30m at the box office just short of 700m. I think If Disney does a last week in wide release promo it could send it out with a last minute 10m bang

With Infinity War already out I don't think BP will do much with a re-release this soon.