Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 I'm going with my niece on opening weekend. I'm thinking I should buy tickets soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 I am so happy that my local theater is undergoing major renovations. I was planning to drive to another city to see this, because this movie deserves to be seen on a good screen and maybe even in 3D, but I won't have to now. I was pleasantly surprised about the changes when I went to see Black Panther. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifth Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 I hope I can see it not in 3D. I remember the first film giving me a headache in the theater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 I don't like to watch movies in 3D, but Avatar was my first and for me it remains the best movie in 3D. So I think the sequel deserves a try. BigFatCoward and Myrddin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Current projections are for Avatar 2 to open at double the first one's box office. Some tracking has the movie rating as high as $175 million for the opening weekend, domestically. And the film will be getting a simultaneous launch in China, which should do masses for its worldwide launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 9 hours ago, Werthead said: Current projections are for Avatar 2 to open at double the first one's box office. Some tracking has the movie rating as high as $175 million for the opening weekend, domestically. And the film will be getting a simultaneous launch in China, which should do masses for its worldwide launch. That's not very surprising. Avatar's opening was a bit soft; not just as a function of total box office but it actually made more money in its second week than its first (domestically). It's interesting that the mention the weather. I wasn't on the east coast but I distinctly remember the roads were shit and there was a hell of a lot of snow on the ground that weekend. I think I saw it at the beginning of week 2. p.s. All the moneys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 192 minutes lol fuck that noise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 The BALLS on this man. Arakasi, Myrddin and Corvinus85 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Deadlines? What Deadlines? said: The BALLS on this man. I'm getting a kick out of him comparing it to binge watching a show for several hours. One massive difference, the pause feature... Edited December 7, 2022 by Tywin et al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 A goddamn hero, that's who. Lord of Oop North and Myrddin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 I'm broadcasting my age, but I saw Return of the Jedi opening day from that front center seat (all that was left). Jabba was huuuugggeeee! I can't fathom paying to see an IMAX movie and still sit in the first five rows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 I can't fathom sitting in the first five rows in any cinema. Ended up at the front, to the right, when we went to see Die Another Day, and the physical pain in my neck combined with the mental anguish of the movie makes it probably my all-time worst cinema experience. RumHam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 52 minutes ago, polishgenius said: I can't fathom sitting in the first five rows in any cinema. Ended up at the front, to the right, when we went to see Die Another Day, and the physical pain in my neck combined with the mental anguish of the movie makes it probably my all-time worst cinema experience. Same. I can only recall sitting front and center for one movie, Emo Spiderman 3. Horrible viewing experience and the neck pain was real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 4 hours ago, Myrddin said: I can't fathom paying to see an IMAX movie and still sit in the first five rows. They want to be the first one through the Stargate to Pandora. It opens during the post credits scene. What do you think Cameron's been doing in New Zealand for the last decade? Scratching himself? Corvinus85 and Myrddin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slurktan Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 On 12/7/2022 at 10:06 AM, polishgenius said: I can't fathom sitting in the first five rows in any cinema. Ended up at the front, to the right, when we went to see Die Another Day, and the physical pain in my neck combined with the mental anguish of the movie makes it probably my all-time worst cinema experience. Not going to lie that sounds like shitty local cinemas but of course that would be par for the course when DAD came out. The ones here the first three rows are all seats that recline so much that you are essentially laying down. Obviously not ideal still but shouldn't hurt your neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mladen Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Oh, boy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 56 minutes ago, Mladen said: Oh, boy... $205 mil roughly equals the entire box office run from its 2009 release in China. Thee. Point. One. Billion. $ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 It needs to make a shit ton of money. Cameron has said if it needs to be the 4th biggest film of all time just to break even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Well, you gotta build the factory before it can churn out the first can of peas. I wonder if Cameron isn't being a bit hyperbolic. Generally, shooting films back to back tends to be a bit more economical. The LOTR films were huge, ensemble, VFX heavy films with a (claimed) production budget of around $100 million each. I'm sure favorable exchange rates and local subsidies helped with that but still. Compare that with Avengers: Endgame which had a budget of $350 million. For Avatar's break even to be that high you'd be approaching $1 billion for production and marketing. I doubt even Cameron could find ways to spend that kind of money, unless Covid lockdowns in NZ really ballooned the budget. I had also heard that much of the costs for the subsequent Avatar films (infrastructure, logistics and digital assets maybe) were kind of front loaded on this film; so there might be some weird accounting going on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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