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TLJ Monday numbers are in. A frankly bruising 58% drop from Sunday.

For reference: TFA's Sunday-Monday dropoff was only 33.8%, a sign the movie would have strong legs going into its second week of release.

Wednesday the school holiday start, it will boost a lot from there

As an interesting aside: TLJ's dropoff is actually slightly WORSE than BvS's record Sunday-Monday crash. If toxic word-of-mouth continues to spread, there is an actual possibility of TLJ struggling to break the $1 billion mark (BvS only went on to make $873 million and change despite a record-setting opening weekend comparable to TLJ's). This is an unprecedented disaster in the making for Disney.

They wore down the audience with that Rogue One thing

I also thought this movie was another fake rogue one type movie

Lots of people on the fence about spending money to see a controversial Star Wars movie, most are just watching the various camrips which came out shockingly fast

They really appealed to nobody with this movie, the hardcore nerds hate it, the normies hate it

Reminder anyone who says to see it multiple times is shilling

Do you think any of the actors themselves are dissatisfied with it? I can’t imagine Mark hamill likes it

Oh yeah, Rogue One. Let's mention that briefly. It didn't open as big as TFA or TLJ but the downward trend matches TLJ's almost perfectly - except TLJ's dropoffs so far have been a few percent more on each day. R1 went on to just scrape past the billion mark ($1.05 billion), falling short of that summer's Captain America: Civil War, which pulled in $1.15 billion.

Holy shit if TLJ fails to make $1B it will be legendary.

Daisy Ridley's only doing it because she thinks it'll be good for her career/wallet, and that's transparently clear in interviews. Completely passionless verging on slightly embarrassed. Boyega seems like he was super into it at first but the consistently terrible writing of his borderline-minstrel character has worn him down. Oscar Isaacs seems to be enjoying himself, I think he just likes dressing up as an X-Wing pilot and running around pretending to shoot at people. Hamill seems pissed he never got to finish Luke's story as intended with Lucas due to signing on before the Disney acquisition.

In some respects it's hard to get a bead on what these people are really thinking because Disney locks everything up behind a meticulously stage-managed veneer of false smiles and NDAs.

OH NO NO NO NO...

Does anyone know the production budget?

>Thread numerically proving that TLJ is performing poorly and disliked by audiences
>Sliding down the catalogue with zero (0) shill replies about Russian Nazi hacker botswarms from Discord

Really activates the almonds...

Everyone keeps claiming it needs 800M to break even.

$250 million. Add on the same again in marketing and is about right once you boil the gross down to net.

we still have china am i right guys?

Man. Seeing people argue over the corporate numbers on a shitty sold-out husk of a movie gets my cock super fucking hard. It's so brutal. it's more interesting than the fucking movie itself.. but seeing people draw dividing lines on how to spin shit so their opinions matter.

>there is an actual possibility of TLJ struggling to break the $1 billion mark
OH NO NO NO NO NO

Let's do it shill army let's help them kill Star Wars once and for all

If that’s the case, only 30 odd movies in history have been successes.

>the trolls are lowering the audience scores!
>pic from actual critic score on RT

This is an edge case because so much fucking money has been pumped into it, it’s absurd. A $150 million movie with $50 million in marketing would be successful with a far smaller gross.

To be fair R1 had a lot less marketing compared to TFA

TLJ has just as much money put behind it as TFA so the fact that its doing worse shows that Disney clearly fucked up

Got any particularly good interview examples? Curious.

People know it's shit now

The dropoff from Saturday to Sunday is double for the Last Jedi compared to TFA. This means that the word of mouth started going on Saturday and prevented a lot of people from going out and watching the movie. At this rate TLJ is going to be sipping gas fumes at $5 million a day this upcoming weekend.

Word is out and less people will rewatch anyway. Force Awakens was the first SW "experience" at the movies in a decade. Unless the movies get better, Star wars fatigue will continue with each new addition.

They need to secure funds to cover the next movie production (plus there's apparently a Han Solo movie) and then make money on top of that to be financially successful. Taxes and etc. eat a chunk out of what's left over.

If we assume 400M in total expenses for this movie and a similar number for the next, 800M doesn't actually cut it. Anything less than 1.1 billion is a failure.

This, Rogue One was really low on the marketing side. TLJ has been all over the place (as expected since it's the main arc).