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And both were pretty crap.
Current data is $1.525bn for JW and $1.512bn for FF7 (although keep in mind that FF7 wasn't 3D so it tragically may have actually sold more tickets but at lower prices).
Both are likely to be surpassed by SW7 at the end of the year.
I'm with you on that! The Fast franchise is the biggest load of rubbish ever.
That's another fact one should highlight. Cinema-audiences seem to be very arroused this year. "SPECTRE" could actually profit (indirectly) from the success that "Jurassic World" ($1,524,640,390 globally, now overtook "Avengers" from 2012), "Furious 7" ($1,511,726,205) and "Avengers 2: Age Of Ultron" ($1,393,498,417) have laid out. Audiences seem to be in good moods in 2015!
On top of that, this box office year seems to become a bit more quiet after July. And then 'Part 2' suddenly arrives. On November 6th, with "SPECTRE".
"SPECTRE" moved to 5th place now in the IMDB Movie Meter 2015! Highest non-released movie in the ranking. It seems the trailer of "Hunger Games", which was released almost at the same day, could not beat "SPECTRE". "Mission: Impossible 5" is mostly at #20 due to its premiere, which is this weekend.
#05: "Bond 24: SPECTRE"
#07: "The Revenant"
#13: "The Hunger Games 4: Mockingjay Part 2"
#16: "Marvel's Fantastic Four"
#17: "Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens"
#20: "Mission: Impossible 5 - Rogue Nation"
#33: "The Man From UNCLE"
#46: "The Hateful Eight"
Especially with 'Fantastic Four' coming before it.
It's not bogus. It reflects weekly popularity on social media as well. One needs to first check HOW this weekly IMDB Moviemaker is being made, BEFORE calling it bogus.
"Bogus" implies that these figures have been faked up. And that's not the case. At most you can call these figures "not very representative for the long-term". Still, you can get some information out of it.
For example: Why is "SPECTRE" higher than "Hunger Games"? Both films released extensive trailers and pictures last week.
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From that perspective, this can be misleading.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-takes-top-spot-for-tv-advertising-1201549901/
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/07/sony-box-office-paul-blart
Until Minion, Fifty Shades Of Grey was for almost the whole year so far the 4th top grossing movie worldwide with a meager 566 million which is one billion short of the other three!!!
Minion is now going towards the billion, let's see if it reaches it.
To think Spectre will do 1.5 billion is a little insane.
Spectre is not Jurassic Park, nor The Avengers. It's a Bond movie, no way, it can reach as many people as the other two.
As for Furious 7, my theory is that at least 500 million was made only because everybody wanted to see Paul Walker for a last time.
2015 is nothing special yet, except for the insane amount of money JW is still making and the Furious 7 phenomenon.
Ouch! I bet that they can't wait for SPECTRE to open just like us.
which worries me because if Spectre doesn't take in at least 700 million it will not make a real profit and that could be disastrous for EON.
The budgets have gone out of control completely which has to be Barbara Broccoli's and part Michael Wilson's fault.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?view=company&view2=calendar&yr=2002&timeframe=yty&sort=&order=&studio=mgm.htm
The weird thing now indeed is, that it'll be an almost certainty for Sony that they will be the 3rd highest grossing movie company when the year comes to an end, after Disney and Universal.
It always seemed that MGM could never get a break and have a big hit outside of the Bond films during the 90's and 2000's...
It's not their money so who gives a shit?
I think people forget the first sole MGM movie in years that premiered two months ago. The movie "Max", about a German Shepherd dog working during the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan. It was a very cheap movie, but it did pretty OK at the box office.
Current global box office gross stands at $ 859 mIllion, China excluded. And it isn't that long out in cinema's.