Most hyped movie of all time

>most hyped movie of all time
>4 decades of franchise-building behind it
>biggest marketing campaign/saturation of all time
>advantages of 2 decades of inflation, hugely inflated 3D/IMAX ticket prices, and huge overseas box office expansion thanks to markets like China and Russia
>opened in over 4,100 theatres domestically and over 30,000 screens overseas (for comparison, Avatar opened in 3,500 theatres domestically/14,000 screens overseas)
>the biggest worldwide IMAX rollout of all time
>contracted by Disney to stay showing on every screen it opened on for at least 4 weeks
>deliberately engineered by Disney to be the shortest length possible for maximum showings, compared to Titanic which ran for over an hour longer and Avatar which ran for half an hour longer
>hugely positive reviews from manchildren and shills alike
>thousands of paid reviewers shilling for the movie constantly all over the news
>hundreds of thousands of manchildren fanboys watching the movie dozen of times each

>STILL can't beat the 20-year-old box office record that is Titanic

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Literally the Hillary Clinton of movies.

>a reddit post
stop.

Titanic has more mass appeal, young and old females like that romance shit over nerd shit like Star Wars

>a tragedy has more mass appeal than a movie focus grouped and designed by the leading grossing studio and producers to be scientifically the most appealing movie of all time
>female and dindu as main characters
>already established best selling franchise
>billion of dollars in advertisement

> The hype stemming from a decade long absence and return of OT characters/aesthetics has been spent

Will Disney ever top The Force Awakens in terms of financial success or is it only downhill from here? Can it even come close to those numbers again, especially with the potential incoming over-saturation the franchise will get subjected to.

It's not necessarily downhill from here, but the movies will continue to make less and less money as time goes on. People will get sick of Star Wars, but the fanboys will always be there, watching every movie and buying every product with Star Wars on it. Disney will milk the name until it means completely nothing.

Plus we have confessions that the Empire is white supremacist propaganda, we can do campaigns for that when 8 drops, scaring minority kids away from buying nazi toys of people that want to gas them.

It will be fun reading the excuses for the Twitter posts next year.

Titanic and avatar have had multiple theatrical rereleases. Inflating their box office records. Basically cameron cheating.

>mfw this flopped in china

Based chinks not falling for the 'ganda.

Yep, China is our greatest ally for cinema

Official CPC policy for 2017:
>no fags
>no ghosts
>ewww black people, not too much
>Communist Party dindu nuffin
>no fags
>Tibet doesn't exist
>fags and blacks minimal
>interracial eww
>Mao was a genius

I can get behind most of that
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a love story on a boat and a love story on planet with giant blue cats is infinitely more appealing than white people fighting other white people

>STILL can't beat the 20-year-old box office record that is Titanic

The firm generated over $1 billion of merchandise a month before the film was even released. By Feb it had exceeded $3 billion. The total revenue stream for force awakens was predicted to exceed $9.6 billion according to bloomberg.com but it fell slightly short.

They didn't need to sell a single movie ticket and it would still effortlessly bring in more profit than titanic ever could.

That's a great idea, someone inform Sup Forums

>needed old cast to draw interest
Literally nobody cares about muh empowered womyn and sidekick, tapdance negro.

>Will Disney ever top The Force Awakens in terms of financial success or is it only downhill from here?
It's definitely downhill considering that one of the main attraction (Han Solo) is gone. But, like all sequels, they will spend more money and make less money until they decide to can it. It's always downhill from here. The entire movie industry is downhill from here.

>Star Wars hasn't had a gorillion theatrical releases
kys newfag

The industry can be saved though.

Sup Forums will become the movie industry.

>China
couldn't give a shit about it
>Russia
economic recession and also nobody gives a fuck about star wars

this film appeals to no female who wasn't already a fan of the film. The only reason they would see it is because their kids wanted to.
while star wars had "40 years" of fanbase building, they had 16 years of nothing but books, comics, games and toys. Could had done a movie but they didn't. that lost a lot of interest.

also, Avatar and Titanic were shilled to lengths that no movie has ever topped, everyone was holding their breath with this film because they hated the last 3 films which also lead to a deep decline in the series. It went from a 1 billion dollar film to a 600 million to a 848 million.
This is a series remember, not a single film. You have to watch 6 other films to understand the 7th and god knows woman don't wanna do that.

No, they will eventually start starving the series to create demand.

probably not.

basically word got around that it was nothing special and the story was bland.

also the merchandise sucked. other than Phasma they all looked terrible

>they had 16 years of nothing but books, comics, games and toys
>games

The game and comics set the bar higher than the prequels or the trilogy.
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the game i could at least give you that but c'mon reading the comics is like searching for some jewels in a pile of shit and its a lot of shit. although i still loved the Dark Empire - Dark Luke storyline since it had Luke sporting that black suit - fucking badass

you're overestimating die hard fans.
a film is far easier to gain intrest, even a TV show is better at expaning intrest.
The game you are even talking about wasn't in the 16 years.
I'm talking shit like Shadows of the Empire.
The game was easy to get kids intrested in star wars but you don't know how much shit came out of star wars in those 16 years.

What are the odds the Avatar sequel beats the first one? And if so, will there be massive amounts of butthurt over capeshit and "Star Wars" being so effortlessly btfo by based Jim?

no because the same fans who love capshit and star wars love avatard

Avatar had the 3d gimmick, unless Avatar 2 will have some vr or i can lick your balls gimmick it will never surpass avatar 1

bu.. but muh popular vote

The odds are against Cameron right now. But how many other times has he been in this situation and exceeded everyone's expectations?

There were about 50 million less people in the US at the time too.

"nerd shit" is all the rage nowadays. It's culturally relevant to know about Star Wars, to like Star Wars, and to see the movies. Girls will do anything to appear hip and cool. So Girls will see it, at least once, but then there's the male and actual nerd fanbase, who will definitely go see it multiple times.

It has the highest US total in history, foreigners just like to see ships sink instead

I liked this movie. Didn't feel ripped off at all. Looking forward to that Rouge 1. I bet it's good too.

For what it's worth I liked it because of how real but alien the world looked. If Avatar 2 takes it another step it'll actually feel like stepping onto another planet, and the masses will eat that shit up.

>They didn't need to sell a single movie ticket and it would still effortlessly bring in more profit than titanic ever could.

in one sentence you just summed up why every single movie that comes out is a basically vapid soulless shit.

>outperformed Titanic at the US box office
>lost overseas

So what you're saying is we need to make more movies to pander to China.

Thanks but no thanks.

God damn I hate Avatar but all it needed was a different ending. The only plausible ending is Humans win, blueskins scatter, hometree destroyed, unobtainum mined 'harmony with nature' bullshit BTFO.

Yes, that would've been the edgelord answer for preteens, but the real solution would've been not to make something so derivative and stupid in the first place.

Seriously, you sound 10.

Episode 7 will never have a re-release because it wasn't that good.

Stupid and derivative? That's what generates gross! Simple, derivative plot and characters to the pleb audience doesn't feel challenged. I can think of one megablockbuster from 2005+ that isn't completely stupid and derivative: The Dark Knight- and it's still capeshit. Half the audience can watch for the spectacle and totally ignore the underlying themes.

Avatar was literally the perfect setup: massive scale sci-fi with goofy newfangled animation gimmick and original content not an existing franchise. You make literally the whole movie as-is: pleb-tier action adventure with dopey deification of some primitive culture where the destructive human invaders are vilified. Then, all you do is change the ending to the only plausible outcome: Avatar resistance is just totally futile because humanity is vastly more powerful. Jake is complete dipshit for getting in way too deep with avatars and thinking with his dick enough to back the wrong side. Avatar population BTFO, humans win. #sorrynotsorry.

"nerd culture" is an overrated meme fad.

>isn't stupid and derivative
>names a movie that is derivative

Daisy Ridley spends the entire movie making goofy faces. Is that because she is a secret Sith, possessed by evil?

I don't get what kind of point you're trying to make. It's an Abrams remake. If you've seen one of them you've seen them all. They're safe and boring but they're kinda watchable in a way most modern remakes aren't. Either way Disney is probably ok with making two billion dollars.