Episode II Surpasses $116 Million at Box Office 529
Domasi writes "The Force is with George Lucas again as the fifth installment of the Star Wars saga, 'Attack of the Clones,' took in $116.3 million in its first four days and to become the second-fastest film behind only "Spider-Man"." Spider-man is better. But I plan to see both of them again.
Screens (Score:5, Informative)
Re:No one saw this. (Score:3, Informative)
$183M International (Score:3, Informative)
Only about 86 million when compared to Spider-Man (Score:3, Informative)
Here's a snippet from hollywood.com: 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm's PG rated franchise installment Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones exploded in first place with an ESTIMATED $86.15 million at 3,161 theaters ($27,254 per theater).
After opening to $30,141,417 for Wednesday midnight screenings and Thursday, its four day cume is approximately $116.29 million. By comparison, Spider-Man's record setting opening was $114.8 million for a normal three day weekend (May 3-5).
Star Wars' average per theater was the highest for any film playing this weekend.
Directed by George Lucas, it stars Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen.
"That's the third best three day regular weekend opening ever after Spider-Man's $114 million and $90 million for Harry Potter," Fox distribution president Bruce Snyder said Sunday morning.
"It's the second fastest to $100 million. Of course, Spider-Man did it in three days and this is four. The previous record was Star Wars: Episode I in five days. It opened on a Wednesday (May 19, 1999). Its five day number was $105.659 million. So we've kind of blown past that in four days with $116.291 million on this one. It's just terrific and we're delighted."
Looking back at Episode I -- The Phantom Menace, Snyder noted, "Its Wednesday, the opening day, was $28.5 million. That was the high water mark for the run. The next best day was $24.4 million on Saturday (of weekend one). In this case, we opened to $30.1 million, went to $25.2 million on Friday and Saturday looks like $32.25 million, so it's actually above the opening day and the opening day, remember, had the Midnight shows (from Wednesday) folded in. So this is really a spectacular performance."
Phantom Menace wound up grossing $431.1 million in domestic theaters. Its worldwide total (domestic plus international) was $923 million. Asked about reports that Clones' Wednesday midnight shows had ticket sales of approximately $6 million, Snyder replied, "Something in that area. It depends on how they got folded into (the total for Thursday), but I think that's a fair estimate."
Here's the breakdown of box office report [hollywood.com]
Re:No one saw this. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Screens (Score:2, Informative)
Spider-Man: 3615 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones: 3161
from here [boxofficeprophets.com] [boxofficeprophets.com].
500 less screens.
Re:Screens (Score:-1, Informative)
Fact: Spider-Man 3,615 screens
Fact: Star Wars ATOC 3,161 screens
Taken from http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/ [boxofficemojo.com]
The Math
Spider-Man opened with $31,769 [boxofficemojo.com] per screen.
Star Wars opened with $27,254 [boxofficemojo.com] per screen.
Spider-Man wins.
Re:These statistics seem meaningless... (Score:3, Informative)
Cheers!
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Re:These statistics seem meaningless... (Score:5, Informative)
Top 100 Ever Adjusted [the-movie-times.com]
The list makes a lot more sense with this math, though Titanic still gets ranked too highly. Unfortunately, this is only adjusted with the Consumer Price Index. I think someone should adjust for population growth as well.
Per Theater avg: (Score:2, Informative)
it was shown in 3,161 theaters, for an avg of $27,254 PT.
For opening weekend of spiderman:
3,615 $31,769 (yes, the difference in theaters was 454.... screens might have been 1500 but theaters wasn't THAT different it seems)
all numbers from www.the-numbers.com
Re:Screens (Score:5, Informative)
By making these arguments about total gross/per theater gross/screens/etc., we are just playing into the Hollywood money machine's hand. But, myself a victim to this game, I believe the 3615/3161 number indicates venues or physical locations where the film is played, whereas the number of actual "Prints" is something like 7500 vs. 6000, which is what the parent was apparently quoting. I don't know if anyone has actually recorded the number of screenings anywhere. Given that AOTC was a little longer than Spidey, this translates into fewer screenings per venue, as well as fewer per print: The difference between 2 hours and 2 hours 20 minutes is enough to reduce the number of screenings at some little theaters from 2 to 1 or from 3 to 2 per day; at multiplexes, it may reduce the number of showings from 15 to 12.
Re:No one saw this. (Score:3, Informative)
However, it will be interesting to see what the "2nd week falloff" is like...
At Seattle Cinerama, not digitally projected... (Score:2, Informative)
Cheers!
Re:Screens (Score:3, Informative)
Even though Spider-Man opened with more screens than AOTC it is still making more per screen than AOTC.
I don't think that's the whole story... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Screens (Score:2, Informative)
But, I might have been misinformed.
Re:Screens (Score:5, Informative)
What's really annoying, is that those numbers you quoted are THEATERS, not SCREENS.
Clones opened up playing on approximately 6,100 screens at 3,161 theaters across North America [boxofficemojo.com]
Spider-man Swinging into 3,615 theaters ... with an estimated 7,500 prints [boxofficemojo.com]
The math still works out that spiderman made more per screen, but of course the Thursday opening isn't taken into account.