s1ocki and nrq otm about the 3d bullshit. ice cr?m right about everything else though.
― caek, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://abadah.ytmnd.com/
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― manichean ramen (latebloomer), Friday, 22 January 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Step aside Titanic
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 January 2010 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ha remember when everyone was all lolhahaha dis gonna bomb dis gonna bomb? u just know cameron had to have made a pact with some kind of weird underwater spirit or something
― manichean ramen (latebloomer), Monday, 25 January 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I GIVE MY SOUL TO THE DEEP, IN EXCHANGE FOR 100 BAZILLION DOLLARS
i still really don't get it, but he also arranged for me to be laid off apparently so BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ONE YOU SERVE
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 25 January 2010 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link
but he also arranged for me to be laid off
you were part of the staff on Pandora?
― manichean ramen (latebloomer), Monday, 25 January 2010 07:07 (fourteen years ago) link
(le fikshunal planit)
― manichean ramen (latebloomer), Monday, 25 January 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, i just mean he spoke with the powers that be and had me put on the dole to teach me a lesson
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 25 January 2010 07:15 (fourteen years ago) link
what did you do?
― randy e. bugler (jeff), Monday, 25 January 2010 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
what the hell
― waka shame (J0rdan S.), Monday, 25 January 2010 07:44 (fourteen years ago) link
he has a billion dollars folksi am suggesting he is using it to crush those that doubt himi am explaining a joke
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 25 January 2010 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it was well formed
sorry to hear that
my best to your family
― randy e. bugler (jeff), Monday, 25 January 2010 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
they're working in the furry mines now
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 25 January 2010 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Avatar is also just like Titanic in that I don't personally know anyone who has been to see it, and yet it's the hugest movie in the world. I smell conspiracies!
Do they ever do these charts in terms of tickets sold rather than highest gross? Because, yeah, a big movie that a lot of people are going to see in IMAX at 2010 ticket prices is naturally going to gross an assload of cash. But I'd really be interested to see how many individual people paid money to see it.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Avatar is also just like Titanic in that I don't personally know anyone who has been to see it
You just aren't asking.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I know boxofficemojo tracks domestic rankings adjusted for inflation (Avatar is currently #26, Titanic #6, Gone with the Wind #1), but I don't see anything based on number of tickets.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
boxofficemojo has an estimated tickets page, altho it's the same as their adjusted gross page and doesn't take avatar's high ticket price into account.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr=1&p=.htm
if you added $3 to the average price of avatar's tickets, it would have around (7.35/10.35 * 76.8M =) 54.5 million tickets sold, placing it around #78.
― abanana, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that sounds more like it. I know no one is claiming this, but I really have a hard time believing that Avatar is totally kicking the box office world's ass in terms of breaking ticket sale records.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Avatar 2 is being produced with a new filmmaking technology that will allow theater owners to project it against the nighttime sky! Of course, you're going to have to shell out an extra $4,000 for the disposable jetpack that will allow you to see it with the clarity with which it was meant to be seen...
Oh, look at that! We've broken another box office record!
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean its making mad dollars but compare 3-d price today to reg tick price in 97
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
(the boxofficemojo page also ignores roadshow prices, doesn't adjust rereleased movies correctly, and probably a bunch of other things. i highly doubt fantasia was that popular.)
― abanana, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I remember reading that Fantasia was hugely popular. Disney and feature-length animation were very new at that point, and a feature-length animated Disney film that wasn't aimed solely at kids in 1940(?) would've surely been a big draw.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Hugely popular in its first run, I mean.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
in Britannia the 3D glasses are a one time cost. Avatar costs as much as any other non-3D movie. Though yeah in general the gross is inflated because of that. not that Fox gives a flying shitting fuck.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Wikipedia: Fantasia was originally released by Walt Disney Productions itself rather than RKO Radio Pictures, which normally distributed the Disney films, and exhibited as a two-hour and twenty minute roadshow film (counting the intermission) with reserved-seat engagements. The film opened to mixed critical reaction and failed to generate a large commercial audience, which left Disney in financial straits.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently the film didn't really pay off until 1969
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i think it was a serious gamble that never really paid off until it hit rerelease xp
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, that shut me up. Ha ha.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Fantasia + pot = profit
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
If only stoned kids had been around in the '40s to save it.
― vacation to outer darkness (Abbott), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
haha xp
http://media.photobucket.com/image/%25252760s%20fantasia%20poster/angral/fant.jpg
Avatar should have had a poster like this.
― vacation to outer darkness (Abbott), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Fox said 72 percent of worldwide sales for “Avatar” came from 3-D screens. If Mr. Dergarabedian’s estimates are correct, the movie has accounted for roughly 56 million admissions in domestic theaters to date.
That is about the same number of tickets that “Titanic” had sold at this point in its theatrical run, he said.
But “Titanic” played and played, remaining in theaters until September 1998 and racking up about 128 million admissions. “Avatar” still needs a very long tail to surpass the number of viewers who saw “Titanic.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/movies/awardsseason/27record.html
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Avatar Will Take Ya Far!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
On Tuesday Tom Rothman, a chairman of the Fox film operation, said the global success of “Avatar” carried a lesson beyond economics. “It tells you all of us on the planet have more things in common than we have dividing us,” Mr. Rothman said.
― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
man, it's like the end of Return Of The Jedi over there, aint it
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I shudder trying to imagine what the Fox executive equivalent of "Yub Nub" is
― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Indigo & Ivory
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://queserasara.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/scrooge-mcduck.jpg
It tells you all of us on the planet have more things in common than we have dividing us
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Still love the release poster for the 1969 run
http://www.judasposters.com/images/posters/Fantasia.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i never read the NYer piece but what i wanna know is: did Cameron/WETA license/patent/whatever any of the technology used in this thing? because it seems to me that the investment strategy for this thing probably had more to do with how it might change ~movie-making~ not just how well it might do at the box office.
because as a technological proof of concept it's pretty fucking impressive, and i can't help but believe that SOMEone stands to make a ton of money from all the tech they developed to make it happen
― his power told him (about the fish) (gbx), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember reading that the 3D cameras were invented by Cameron
― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm sure that what's patentable has been patented, but as with ILM just developing the expertise is a significant asset. the team will fan out over the years but for now, basically, if you want to do something like this, you'll need to talk to someone who worked on avatar, and if you want to get your picture made this decade it's going to make more sense to pay them to do the work in a feasible timeframe than to have your team learn on the job.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Or you could just book Weta and relax.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
wait isn't that what i just said?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
This is two years old now, but a good read iirc (I just pulled it out of my bookmarks and haven't reread it, so apologies if is sucks): http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983864.html?categoryid=2868&cs=1
― caek, Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
You know what I think.-- Jim out
-- Jim out
― caek, Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link