Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Dec 15th, 2017)

[Sassafras]

You were expecting something different?

And for the record; I watched TLJ for the fourth time yesterday.

Maybe I'll go again tomorrow...meanwhile...

https://deadline.com/2017/12/star-wars-the-last-jedi-second-week-overseas-results-international-box-office-1202232602/

THURSDAY UPDATE: With the force of Wednesday grosses included, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi has jumped to a global cume of $891.8M. Yesterday’s international box office was worth $26.7M, a 10% increase on the previous day, lifting the overseas total to $446.9M. Worldwide, the film will pass $900M today and is due to join the $1B global club this weekend, its 3rd session.

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The overseas Wednesday figure reps 35% of this past frame and poises the Rian Johnson-helmed installment to cross $500M in the coming days.

Running now just a Yoda hair above domestic, Jedi is currently playing in 54 international markets, with China to come on January 5.

At the comparable points in offshore rollout, The Last Jedi continues to run 34% behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with the porgs at 36% above Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (the latter a slight shift from yesterday, see below). The gang from the galaxy far, far away has overtaken Justice League at the international box office to rank No. 10 for 2017 thus far.

Turnstiles were notably active on Wednesday in the UK and Germany. The former remains tops on Episode VIII, now with $75.8M ($4.9M Wed) and Germany is behind it with $49.9M ($4.3M Wed). Rounding out the Top 5 are France ($37.6M), Japan ($31.9M) and Australia ($30.3M).

 

[aa909]

R.I.P.

Here lies the body of Star Wars...

Died on its ruby anniversary...

For forty years it entertained with originality...

Now its destiny is simple banality...

 

[Wor-Gar]

I do hope TLJ passes the number 1 grossing movie of 2017... Beauty and the Beast.

Dunno why, dislike them both. But hey, its still Star Wars.

 

[Asta]

Even for The Maker himself.

The Maker forgot how to capture lightning in bottle, because he forgot the key factor: keep it simple.

In the Star Wars episode of The Toys That Made Us when they remembered how the bargain bins were overflowing with TPM figures, somebody remarked that kids weren't interested in lessons in tax and economics.

They must be loving gender politics.

 

[TaliBane]

Maybe I'll go again tomorrow...meanwhile...

https://deadline.com/2017/12/star-wars-the-last-jedi-second-week-overseas-results-international-box-office-1202232602/

Are people genuinely surprised that the number one IP brand of all time (lifetime revenue of around $50B, now adding almost $2B a year on average,) powered by the number one entertainment corporation in the world (current market capitalization: $175B,) delivers for the latest franchise entry at the box office?

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I do hope TLJ passes the number 1 grossing movie of 2017... Beauty and the Beast.

Dunno why, dislike them both. But hey, its still Star Wars.

Doesn't have the rest of 2018 to pass B&B?

 

[Lakhota]

I feel like a real twit, I am currently watching TPM ( only saw it 3 times back in 99) and it’s actually pretty awesome. Jar Jar wasn’t as bad as I remembered and this really feels like Star Wars. This feels like Godfather 2 next to TFA and TLJ. They really should get Lucas on board with the new trilogy, I bet a lot of fans would jump on board


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[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Are people genuinely surprised that the number one IP brand of all time (lifetime revenue of around $50B, now adding almost $2B a year on average,) powered by the number one entertainment corporation in the world (current market capitalization: $175B,) delivers for the latest franchise entry at the box office?

Actually, the number one IP of all time is Pokémon.

 

[aa909]

Actually, the number one IP of all time is Pokémon.

wow has Pokemon really grossed over $50B in sales?

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

wow has Pokemon really grossed over $50B in sales?

Yes, over 55 bill, in less than 20 years

If Disney buys Nintendo, then Mickey and Mario will fuse Dragon Ball Z style, and they'll take over the universe.

 

[Asta]

I feel like a real twit, I am currently watching TPM ( only saw it 3 times back in 99) and it’s actually pretty awesome. Jar Jar wasn’t as bad as I remembered and this really feels like Star Wars. This feels like Godfather 2 next to TFA and TLJ. They really should get Lucas on board with the new trilogy, I bet a lot of fans would jump on board

TLJ was Kennedy's Christmas gift to George. She ensured that Rian's film would make people appreciate Jar Jar Binks.

Such a selfless act! What a remarkable example of womanhood! We gravely misjudged her.

 

[Prime Clone]

The Maker forgot how to capture lightning in bottle, because he forgot the key factor: keep it simple.

In the Star Wars episode of The Toys That Made Us when they remembered how the bargain bins were overflowing with TPM figures, somebody remarked that kids weren't interested in lessons in tax and economics.

That complaint itself has always been simplistic. Tax and politics were only ever plot devices, the characters didn’t bang on forever about them.

And anyone who wasn’t expecting politics in the prequels obviously never read the foreword of the ANH novelisation - or conveniently forgets the political references in ANH itself.

 

[klwn]

I feel like a real twit, I am currently watching TPM ( only saw it 3 times back in 99) and it’s actually pretty awesome. Jar Jar wasn’t as bad as I remembered and this really feels like Star Wars. This feels like Godfather 2 next to TFA and TLJ. They really should get Lucas on board with the new trilogy, I bet a lot of fans would jump on board


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Haha that's good to hear! TPM is very watchable imo, and I guess the fact that I was 12 when it came out helped me not realize back then that Jar Jar was out of place. But he doesn't really bother me even to this day (I do understand why people hate him though). Rose was annoying and had a lot of screen time in an utterly useless story arc, I get why people like Jar Jar better now.

 

[Prime Clone]

I feel like a real twit, I am currently watching TPM ( only saw it 3 times back in 99) and it’s actually pretty awesome. Jar Jar wasn’t as bad as I remembered and this really feels like Star Wars. This feels like Godfather 2 next to TFA and TLJ. They really should get Lucas on board with the new trilogy, I bet a lot of fans would jump on board

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[Wor-Gar]

Doesn't have the rest of 2018 to pass B&B?

Doesn't its take in 2018 still count toward a film that was released in 2017? They don't split it.

 

[Adolfo]

That complaint itself has always been simplistic. Tax and politics were only ever plot devices, the characters didn’t bang on forever about them.

And anyone who wasn’t expecting politics in the prequels obviously never read the foreword of the ANH novelisation - or conveniently forgets the political references in ANH itself.

Agenda was no where near for those earlier Lucas films that TLJ agenda had shoved in our faces plus TLJ murdered the Force and the Star Wars order of things...none of the earlier films did that

 

[Asta]

That complaint itself has always been simplistic. Tax and politics were only ever plot devices, the characters didn’t bang on forever about them.

And anyone who wasn’t expecting politics in the prequels obviously never read the foreword of the ANH novelisation - or conveniently forgets the political references in ANH itself.

They banged on about them in the Senate. The plot of the PT was Gulf War induced casus belli.

The forward to the novelisation of Star Wars is the antithesis of Darth Sidious - it describes the Emperor hiding away, at the mercy of bureaucrats.

 

[Wor-Gar]

The forward to the novelisation of Star Wars describes the Emperor hiding away, at the mercy of bureaucrats.

Like Tarkin.

Every Star Wars movie that Tarkin is in is good. Add more Tarkin.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Doesn't its take in 2018 still count toward a film that was released in 2017? They don't split it.

Avatar came out in 2009, mid December, and it made most of the money the following year, but if you look at the highest grossing film of 2009, it says Avatar.

 

[Asta]

Like Tarkin.

Every Star Wars movie that Tarkin is in is good. Add more Tarkin.

The forward does explain why Tarkin is so powerful in the film, which is an odd dynamic. Because the regional governors had been allowed to assume too much power. Vader is sidelined as an outsider belonging to a dying religion, because the Emperor himself is sidelined at this time.

But then, Alan Dean Foster wrote the novel for Lucas, and likely had to flesh out Lucas' outline.