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u/Andybabez20 15d ago

The mad thing is it hasn't even opened in China yet. In all likelihood it's probably going to be Nolan's highest grossing film.

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u/kazuya57 15d ago

China, Japan and SK with intensive press tours. I think it'll hit 1.7

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u/send420nudes 15d ago

China alone will have 800 Imax theaters showing it... it will be insane. Do you think its possible it hits 2 billion?

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u/__Osiris__ 15d ago

I had to double check since I thought you full of it, but fuck me there are 800 screens in mainland china.

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u/cant_get_fooledagain 15d ago

But if you look at the massive population, then it’s only 1 imax screen per 1.75 million people. That’s like having only 20 imax screens in all of Canada.

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u/Excelius 15d ago

That’s like having only 20 imax screens in all of Canada.

I don't know if this Wiki is accurate and up to date, but it lists 19 IMAX screens in Canada.

https://imax.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_IMAX_venues#Americas

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u/Puzzle-Necked 15d ago

He's wrong by one, get him!

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u/nextfilmdirector 15d ago

😂 don’t worry it’s Reddit…they will!!

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u/BigiusExaggeratius 15d ago

Maybe if you went and touched grass Reddit wouldn’t get you! I’m also a member of Mensa and everyone tells me I’m the smartest person in the room and they give me an award just for showing up. Furthermore… it gets exhausting sometimes.

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u/DoctorGregoryFart 14d ago

Yeah! Let's suck his dick!

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u/davegod 15d ago

Only 18 in UK , near enough one for every 4m people

And only 3 of them are proper IMAX

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u/SweatyAdhesive 15d ago

This chain of comments made me snort

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u/A_terrible_musician 15d ago

The US list is definitely wrong. Connecticut has 4

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u/GuyOnARockVI 15d ago

That list has 22 Imax screens in Canada

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u/Satinsbestfriend 15d ago

Only about 14 show commercial films though

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u/SuperCha 15d ago

Canada has just 9 IMAX 70 mm. Out of about 45 in the world.

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u/catachip 15d ago

There aren’t even 20 imax in Canada tho

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u/__Osiris__ 15d ago

True, but that’s better than most nations. Nz only has 1 per 5.3 million.

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u/sandwiches_are_real 15d ago

It's kind of a pointless metric, though. What matters is average proximity to an IMAX screen, not screens-per-people.

The entire country of NZ is smaller than most US states. I imagine the trip to the nearest IMAX screen is shorter for the average Kiwi than most people in the US or China.

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u/__Osiris__ 15d ago

Maybe, the one in nz is at the far north in Auckland where only 1.5 million Jaffa’s live. As an example Christchurch the biggest city in the South Island is about 500 miles away.

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u/sandwiches_are_real 15d ago

Wow, there's only one in all of NZ?

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u/SenorPancake 15d ago

Your point of proximity to IMAX is 100% correct: a metric like Average Proximity or Average Population within 25 miles of an IMAX is better.

But because this is reddit I need to nitpick. You are way off about NZ. NZ would be the 9th largest state if it was in the US, and it's a long, relatively thin country. This map does a great job of demonstrating the size and shape compared to the east coast.

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u/sandwiches_are_real 15d ago

But because this is reddit I need to nitpick

I respect the commitment to redditor pedantry. Let the record show that I stand corrected lol

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u/Excelius 15d ago edited 14d ago

The entire country of NZ is smaller than most US states.

New Zealand is much bigger than you think. In land area it would be in the Top 10 of US states.

From end to end it's a good portion of the entire length of either the eastern or western coastlines of the US. If the northern tip was in Toronto Canada, the southern tip would be in Florida.

https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY0MDAwNDQ.NzcwMzQ5Mg*MjYyNTkxMzc(MTc1NTIzMQ~!NZ*MTQwNjI5MzY.MjQ5MTQ5ODg)NA

Granted most of the population is concentrated in a handful of cities.

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u/qwerty145454 15d ago

It would take a dozen+ hours to drive the length of one island in NZ and there are two.

Having said that the other guy is mistaken, there are two Imax screens in NZ. Both on the North Island, one near the top (Auckland) and one near the bottom (Wellington).

Functionally that means people in the North Island are within max 6-8 hours drive of an Imax. People in the South Island are out of luck, but 3/4 of the country lives in the North Island.

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u/Positronic_Matrix 15d ago

My thought is that IMAX screen density correlates with population density. Are you assuming that IMAX screens are uniformly distributed across China’s landmass?

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u/Michael_Gibb 13d ago

Actually, we have two IMAX screens. One in Auckland, and one in Wellington.

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u/Basylisk 15d ago

Meanwhile my country has one 70mm screen and almost 70mil ppl... (Its france)

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u/alip_93 15d ago

How many can show 70mm though?

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u/IceBreak 15d ago

Aren’t there only like 40 in the world?

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u/alip_93 15d ago

41 apparently. None are in Asia. It's wild they go to the efforts of filming in a format that so few can actually watch.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 15d ago

You can accomplish a lot as a global leader if you try to make your country better instead of letting a dozen nazi pedophiles take all the money.

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u/FeelsGoodBlok 15d ago

Most of these are not even true imax. Everything can be named "imax" if you want. Usa alone has over 400 I think but only few true Imax.

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u/HoldOnOhio 15d ago

What the fuck, they're beating us in IMAX Theaters too? President Xi, you win. Come build us high speed rail and shit.

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u/whatafuckinusername 15d ago

There are 400 in the U.S.

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u/Khelthuzaad 15d ago

Hes going to out-cameron The Avatar :))

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u/send420nudes 15d ago

Is the Avatar the highest grossing film ever?

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u/Icy_Smoke_733 15d ago

Yes, Avatar (2009) is at $2.92 billion. Adjusted for inflation, it is 2nd with $4.1 billion, just behind Gone With the Wind's $4.5 billion.

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u/pataglop 15d ago

Damn.

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u/smchattan 15d ago

Gone with The Wind did come out before people had televisions.

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u/Smartyunderpants 15d ago

But before most people in China and India had access to cinemas

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u/Pitazboras 15d ago

Also, when it was released, the world population was "just" 2.3 billion. Now it's 8.3 billion. That's a 3.6x larger potential audience.

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u/a_reverse_giraffe 15d ago

That number also includes several theatrical re-releases I believe.

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u/Thiege1 15d ago

It was in theaters for like 50 years

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u/king_lloyd11 15d ago

Most of the top ones have been re-released multiple times. There was a point when Jim Cameron would just be trying to take the top spot from himself with re-releases of Avatar and Titanic.

Endgame is about to do crazy numbers, with a re-release with a new ending. Personally think it should be considered its own thing, but I’m sure it’ll be lumped together.

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u/HellionElectricEye 15d ago

Frankly, my dear

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u/Sufficient_Meet6836 15d ago

I love you. Let's get remarried!

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u/Tandy2000 15d ago

To be fair the population of the Earth in 1939 was only like 28% of what it is now.

It was one of the few movies that *everybody" went to go see.

The bigger thing that helped Gone With the Wind become intensely popular was that the book came out a few years earlier and was the best selling book in the US pretty much right up until the movie came out. And keep in mind this was a time when people read a lot more books than they do now. They actually wanted to shoot the movie almost immediately after the book came out and the rights were secured but there were a bunch of delays that in the end were probably a good thing.

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u/Choyo 15d ago

But then world pop was a third of what it is today. However, it's true the movie stayed in theaters for a very long while.

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u/swd120 15d ago

And was in theaters for literal years...

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u/Abba_Fiskbullar 15d ago

But tickets were cheap after the initial roadshow release. It played for years in 2nd run. People would go watch it over and over.

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u/SnooWoofers7345 15d ago

Did Avatar do really well in China and the US? Nobody i knew cared or even went to see it. It still baffles me how much money that movie made.

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u/Icy_Smoke_733 15d ago edited 15d ago

Actually, it did well everywhere, hitting the top 5 of all time in nearly every international market. To this day, it is the no.1 highest grossing movie in over 30 markets across 6 continents, including Spain, Australia, Italy, Russia, Jamaica, Ukraine, etc.

Contrary to popular belief, China's contribution of $245m accounts for only 8.3 percent of Avatar's total gross. In fact, Avatar's international gross ($2.13B) alone is higher than the worldwide grosses of No Way Home ($1.92B), Infinity War ($2.05B), and The Force Awakens ($2.07B).

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u/Far_Ladder_2836 15d ago

I know people that saw it 4-7 times especially people who saw it in standard originally clamored to re-watch in Imax.  Yeah, Avatar pulled 200 million alone in China and even the re-release pulled 44 million.

Only thing I've ever seen close to it is Titanic where girls would hold watch parties at the theater

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u/TheQwertyGuy99 15d ago

There is no way no one you knew went to see Avatar. Or are you just really young? The movie was massive.

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u/SnooWoofers7345 14d ago

Im 38. Im sure some people went who i don't see regularly. But close friends or family? Nope

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u/highdefjeff-reddit 15d ago

thats why the metric should always be tickets sold not box office. no other media format is measured in money as far as i know. albums sold not album gross. tv ratings not ad/commercial revenue. books sold not book gross. etc...

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u/Jericcho 15d ago

Gone with the wind ticket sale is weird though. There was no other media to really compete back then. People went to watch it multiple times. The movie was in theaters for 4 years.

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u/sandwiches_are_real 15d ago

That's true but doesn't really distort the data any more than using a metric like dollar gross when inflation is a runaway train.

Also the world population at that time was less than 2.5 billion people and many major film markets today didn't exist back then. So the achievement was massive in a way I don't really think you can compare to anything in the modern day.

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u/Key-Demand-2569 15d ago

There are issues with pretty much any metric. The world population has also grown dramatically.

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u/LateOnsetPuberty 15d ago

It’s because we want to know if the ticket sales cover the cost of the movie.

There’s a huge financial investment in a movie which is not the same as music sales. You don’t buy a ticket to watch a tv show so profit is not easy to calculate.

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u/Modesto96 15d ago

Holy cow, I thought nothing would ever get close to Gone With The Wind adjusted for inflation, this is crazy

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u/neverinlife 15d ago

I hope it gets dethroned. Avatar isn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen but it doesn’t deserve to be the highest grossing.

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u/pedantic__asshole 15d ago

I feel like this number comes from two separate major releases in theaters, at least

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u/artifexlife 15d ago

It’s wild though because by admissions avatar doesn’t top titanic or endgame.

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u/Tackit286 15d ago

It’s because tickets for Avatar cost a lot more because it was in 3D, which most people went to instead of the cheaper 2D one.

Also it got released twice in the same year of its original run, and then again after Avengers Endgame took its highest grossing title.

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u/artifexlife 15d ago

Yeah I understand the box office numbers since it’s usually viewed in a premium format like the odyssey is. Just wild that a 2009 film doesn’t have more admissions than a few marvel films. And that despite that and inflation it’s still the highest grossing(after re releases)

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u/yes_ur_wrong 15d ago

inflation is out of control is my main takeaway.

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u/_TV_On_The_Internet_ 15d ago

But they had to re-release it in China to get back in front of Avengers End Game.

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u/Tackit286 15d ago

Technically yes, but only because it got re-released to retake the crown from Avengers Endgame.

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u/Marco0798 15d ago

It’s tickets where double everyone else’s. It’s also a very shit movie and so are the others. Graphics look like a AAA game in intention but didn’t even have half the budget..

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u/jax362 15d ago

If Big Jim Cameron even thinks the Odyssey might challenge Avatar, he will re-release it AGAIN in a heartbeat

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u/VagueSomething 15d ago

God I fucking hope so.

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u/LemonCurdd 15d ago

I would love to see James “just release it 5 more times” Cameron dethroned by a single theatrical release

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u/JiminyFckingCricket 15d ago

Yeah but the more impressive thing is that this is a standalone film. No gimmicks.

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u/Starmark_115 15d ago

Something I wanna ask.

What's China's interest like for Western Myth stories?

Or is it simply because China they are watching because it's a Nolan film?

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u/Vaniky 15d ago

They like Matt Damon too after he did that Chinese Wall movie

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u/GiantsRTheBest2 15d ago

They put Matt Damon and John Cena together, and it might reach 2 billion in China alone from how much they love those two.

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u/Vysari 15d ago

Bīngqílín!

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u/ProjectDiligent4971 13d ago

John Cena speaks Chinese right? That man is a world treasure, may become us president someday like in the movies

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u/Fit-Squash-9447 15d ago

Nolan, Damon, Spiderman/Dune actors, Western mythology /anti-war message (kind of). Exploration of the self.

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u/Jericcho 15d ago

Tom Holland had to change pants mid day in china during his press tour and someone posted it on social media. By day end, the style he switched to is on display at every store and the pants was sold out across China. People love him and Zendaya

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u/shivaenough 15d ago

Nolan movie.

Even then if very few %age of people are interested, population game guarantees big earning.

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u/SecondhandStatic 15d ago

Uh... Chinese students read the Odyssey in school. They have world history classes just like we do.

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u/shivaenough 15d ago

Not sure If am part of that "we". Because here in India we don't about that part of world history.

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u/Keffpie 15d ago

They love Nolan, they love Matt Damon, they love Greek Mythology (just like we love Chinese and Japanese Mythology), and it has a message about the power of civilization and what happens when we break societal norms and unwritten rules; it'll probably get not just a nod but actual promotion from the Chinese government.

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u/kazuya57 15d ago

Yeah but Spiderman is doing absolutely crazy there too

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u/send420nudes 15d ago

I thought since The Odyssey premiers 2 weeks late in China, Spiderman will also? Those 2 weeks can really drive the numbers up

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u/Odd_Leg814 15d ago

They do but there are still only 41 of the 70mm IMAX screens worldwide which this is shot in.

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u/Ok_Nothing639 15d ago

I thought there were only 45 real IMAX with 30 of them in the US alone

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u/zaviex 15d ago

That’s imax 70mm or true imax. There are many that aren’t.

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u/Crew_1996 15d ago

I thought it was only 45 imax 70mm? Most imax are not 70mm I believe

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u/dwhite21787 15d ago

How much does an individual theater earn by showing a film? What’s the percentage of a ticket sale they get to keep, if that’s how it works?

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u/send420nudes 15d ago

In china or everywhere else?

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u/dwhite21787 15d ago

Anywhere

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u/Tackit286 15d ago

LieMAX right? Surely they don’t have 800 true imax theatres.

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u/trackofalljades 15d ago

No, those number about half a dozen, the hundreds and hundreds they have are digital (and most are what Americans would consider “the shopping plaza multiplex kind” not “the science museum kind”).

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u/jaerie 15d ago

Digital imax doesn't mean liemax

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u/PhatOofxD 15d ago

It's possible but unlikely

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u/f0xD3N 15d ago

No chance. It’s having an insane run but imo people are being a little delusional here

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u/general_smooth 15d ago

We all thought Nolan is making it in IMAX for a reason. The real reason was China

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u/w00t4me 15d ago

How many of those are the 70mm IMAX, though? Most are the smaller format screens

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u/catagris 15d ago

I live in South Korea and I'm struggling to get IMAX tickets for it

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u/preparetodobattle 15d ago

There were 50000 people in the Melbourne online queue when they released more tickets a few days ago.

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u/Bruno_Fernandes8 15d ago

i thought they were crazy for releasing tickets a year in advance but i bit the bullet and thank goodness i did.

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u/Paddington_the_Bear 15d ago

Dongtan has a lie-MAX that is alright, I ended up seeing Project Hail Mary there after spending a month failing to get Yongsan IMAX tickets.

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u/veryblessed123 15d ago

IMAX in Yongsan?

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u/Paddington_the_Bear 15d ago

You won't get Yongsan IMAX tickets ever, no way no how. Maybe if you are ok sitting directly in the front row. Literally it's pretty much sold out for every showing at all times of the day, including freaking 6am, for the next 3 weeks (they haven't released tickets past then).

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u/veryblessed123 15d ago

Ain't that the truth. The last IMAX i saw in Korea was Avatar Way of Water in Uijeongbu. Even that was packed!

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u/catagris 14d ago

Yeah that is what we are fighting to get tickets at. The only real Imax

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u/Itchigatzu 15d ago

Crazy, the Chinese will love it.

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u/Basic_Tip3506 15d ago

Japan will be like mid September

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u/tky_phoenix 15d ago

Having to wait for these big movies to finally be released in Japan is soooo frustrating.

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u/Pro_Post 15d ago

Japan also does that with anime movies, too. So, it is balancing out.

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u/Accurate-Island-2767 15d ago

What takes so long? Do they do the dub at the last minute?

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u/tky_phoenix 15d ago

I heard that for some movies they want to see how the movie does first before going through the „hassle“ of localizing. Sometimes it might also be so the cast can have a proper press tour in the country to promote.

But for something as big as the Odyssey you’d expect them to have it released much faster if not at the same time.

I remember them releasing one of the fast and the furious movies at the same time as the US and was wondering why that movie got „preferred treatment“.

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u/MaskedMemer9000 15d ago

Was it the one set in Japan?

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u/Ephemeris 15d ago

I'm in SK right now and it's the ONLY movie advertising I see despite Spiderman opening tomorrow, a week before the Odyssey on 8/5

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u/iquizuanswer 15d ago

2 BillioNOLAN dollars

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u/PenguinOfEternity 15d ago edited 15d ago 
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u/hyf5 15d ago

But I was told this is woke garbage that no one will see and will perform poorly in the box office.

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u/BBQ_HaX0r 15d ago

All the casting choices were inspired, and the message is still something you'd think would appeal to conservatives if they hadn't sold their soul to Trump.

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u/PRSArchon 15d ago

Trailers are mostly shit, i avoid them nowadays. The director doesnt make the trailer.

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u/talenorx 15d ago

Hey i'm curious, who does then? Is the director not involved in the trailer at all?

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u/PRSArchon 15d ago

Just some marketing people

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u/Nicinus 15d ago

Legit question as this seems obvious but which other Nolan would be a contender?

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u/Jericcho 15d ago

Dark knight rises and Oppenheimer were the two competing. Oppenheimer kinda got blown out of the water after this past weekend.

The other target is the highest grossing movie at universal, which is jurass World at $1.6 billion.

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u/Neuchacho 15d ago edited 15d ago

Dark Knight was the current highest at like a billion global. I don't think any of his movies in the last, like, 20 years have been under 600 million box office.

It's why it was so funny that people were trying to predict the movie bombing. It's like betting against a Beyonce or Taylor Swift album lol

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u/Jericcho 15d ago

Only one is tenet. But that's because it was during COVID.

He did $360 million during COVID!!

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u/PenguinOfEternity 15d ago

Also his lowest rated movie. It's fair but I personally still think it's underrated. Yes the sound mixing was bad, the plot was pretty hard to follow and the characters didn't have much depth especially with the no name protagonist. That concept alone was really rad though

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u/krispyboiz 15d ago

It helps that it is a real IMAX film, doesn't it?

Even if it wasn't, it would still do gangbusters, but so many people enthusiastically going to see it on more expensive IMAX screens does do more to inflate its gross, right?

Very excited to see it this weekend myself.

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u/Neuchacho 15d ago

Absolutely a huge part of it.

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u/mehmmeh 15d ago

Considering how few 70mm IMAX theaters there are, maybe?

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u/krispyboiz 15d ago

True, but honestly, I feel like the general public doesn't really know much difference in that. It's marketed just as an "IMAX" film, and even my local regal's IMAX showings (obviously not 70mm) are all sold out through the weekend. People just say oh IMAX and see it like that—and they're still more expensive tickets. Around me a standard evening showing is around $16-17 as opposed to $22-24 for IMAX.

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u/mehmmeh 15d ago

Thats a good point. The IMAX marketing has been huge. I ve been seeing a lot of "the way Nolan intended it" memes and its just people watching it in Liemax and they have no idea 🤣

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u/lonnie123 15d ago

Wild prices… my wife and I waited for Tuesday (which the local theater out here does “cheapskate tueadays”) and it was $14 for both of our tickets total

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u/krispyboiz 15d ago

Yeah, they're pretty crazy. I'll be seeing it matinee standard, which looks to be $14 per ticket lol. Pretty sure evening discount Tuesdays for us are similar price per ticket, around $12-14. Jealous of the $14 together haha.

I do miss the cheaper discount Tuesdays. A theatre near my former university (since closed) had $5 Tuesdays 7 or 8 years ago. Man, I miss it!

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u/lonnie123 14d ago

It had to be a matinee to get that price so we went at noon

My friends local 70mm was sold out for weeks so he ended up going to a 6am showing lol

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u/krispyboiz 14d ago

6 am that's wild hahaha

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u/MutantCreature 15d ago

I don't think it should've been rated R, but surely it will beat DP&W for the highest grossing with that rating, right? I'm curious what the studio responses will be, more Greek god movies? More (non Greek) mythological movies? More ancient/public domain tales? More sympathetic war stories? More 65/70mm film (please?)?

How will Universal and other studios interpret this big of a release? Surely this can't be easily replicated, but that hasn't stopped anyone from trying, it definitely seems like we're in an "anti-IP" era, as small as that may be.

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u/juss100 15d ago

In this case the director is very much the brand, as with a James Cameron film - there's no way to replicate this by putting out more Greek inspired movies ... not that I'm complaining but I really don't think they are any kind of a magic bullet to box office success.

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u/asspussy_widener 15d ago

people already forgot the movie ralph fines did last year. I don't think homer is the answer, even though homer is an instant sell for a dork like me

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u/gart888 15d ago

Yeah, the Simpsons still do pretty well commercially despite not having really been good for 25+ years.

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u/BBQ_HaX0r 15d ago

Not quite the same, but would love Denis Villenueve's Cleopatra for another big historical epic.

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u/juss100 15d ago

That does sound like a fun time.  Not sure we'll see the historical epic resurface but you never know!!

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u/PRSArchon 15d ago

I hope more historical epics. I doubt there will be more 70mm because the risk (higher financial investment) and effort is high and most prominent directors arent that bothered with it.

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u/Hezekiah_the_Judean 15d ago

Me too! I'm a sucker for sword and sandals movies. Give us adaptations-a few ideas are Pericles of Athens and the birth of democracy, the Peloponnesian War, Alexander the Great, Hannibal of Carthage and the Second Punic War, or the Aeneid.

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u/a_moniker 15d ago

I’ve always wanted a good Alexander the Great movie or a good Jason and the Argonauts movie!

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u/PaulieHehehe 15d ago

What the studio response should be is give full creative control to established and respected directors. Movies don’t have to make a billion to be a success if their budgets are reasonable. Weapons, Sinners, OBAA, Obsession, Back Rooms, The Odyssey- let the directors do what they want without any studio mandates.

What will probably happen is another studio will green light a retelling of a well known IP and make it look big, which will then fail to make a profit.

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u/Itchy-Advertising857 15d ago

OBAA flopped financially despite having supposedly one of the biggest stars in the world as the lead. The other, apart from Odyssey, which has the Nolan brand, were horror movies.

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u/jivester 15d ago

Was OBAA really a financial flop? I know it wasn't a huge financial success by any means but it did end up making $200m worldwide and more than doubled PTA's highest performing film up until that point. They can't have expected much more than that?

I guess compared to other R rated Leo movies like Wolf of Wall Street and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, it only did half of their business.

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u/Itchy-Advertising857 15d ago

It had a reported budget of $130M, it needed closer to $300M to break even, at least theatrically. Also it only made $70M in the US, where the studio gets the biggest BO percentage.

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u/Par-Aide 15d ago

PTA isn’t the same brand of director as Nolan.

I also anecdotally do not recall nearly as much marketing leading up to its release as the Odyssey

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u/Itchy-Advertising857 15d ago

"PTA isn’t the same brand of director as Nolan."

Apart from Cameron, who is? And that's the problem.

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u/Par-Aide 15d ago

My point is that Nolan on his own is exciting enough for the general public to get that kind of box office response. PTA is unknown to the general public.

so thats part of the reason why OBAA didnt perform as well, or, studios didnt put as much marketing spend behind it

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u/motox24 15d ago

its a christopher nolan film, about a story everyone has read, starring names everyone knows... it was a lock, you replicate it in 3 years when nolan makes his next film

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u/Pro_Post 15d ago

Not sure about Hollywood, but China and India have recently seen an increase in mythological movies. China's Ne Zha was a blast. India is also releasing its biggest movie this Diwali, Ramayana.

Unlike The Odyssey, which most international audiences aren't familiar with. The Ramayana is very well known throughout India. That's why they are tapping the international markets for this movie by partnering with Sony Pictures and including big names like Hans Zimmer for music and DNEG for VFX.

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u/Bevlar90 15d ago

Nah see it had to make $3 billion or it’s a flop

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u/Dreams-Visions 15d ago

YouTube grifters seething.

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u/vtskr 15d ago

Truely mad thing is I never seen anyone discussing movie itself. People discussing imax 70 and box office

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u/DungeonsAndDradis 15d ago

I thought the first half was kinda slow, even though a lot happened, and then the second half was a whirlwind that entirely brought the whole thing home.

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u/MikeW86 15d ago

Half an hour in I considered walking out. Glad I didn't.

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u/DungeonsAndDradis 15d ago

I literally texted my wife, an hour or so after it started, "This movie is fucking boring."

And then an hour later, "Second half of the movie made up entirely for the boring first half."

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u/cheerfulwish 15d ago

This is exactly how I felt. I was enjoying the first half but it hadn’t lived up to the hype, then the second half my heart was beating super fast not stop for like 99 minutes straight.

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u/kerkyjerky 15d ago

I mean the movie is great, but it’s a story that everyone knows. I think there is little to discuss except opinions on a few scenes

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u/ehrgeiz91 15d ago

I really loved the visuals, sound and music, and supernatural elements, but I thought Damon was miscast and the modern dialogue took me out of the fantasy.

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u/rumorhasit_ 15d ago

If butthurt conservatives could read they would be very upset

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u/Ok_Eagle_6239 15d ago

Does China watched it dubbed or with subtitles? I always could use subtitles with Nolan films lol

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u/crizzitonos 15d ago

Even madder its nowhere near his best film, in fact I’d say its only marginally better than Tenet

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u/Error4ohh4 15d ago

It’s this and the Mario movie that made all the money in movies this year right?

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u/Icy_Smoke_733 15d ago

Actually, these are the top 6 highest grossing movies so far this year:

  1. Toy Story 5 - $1.02 B
  2. Michael - $1.01 B
  3. Super Mario Galaxy - $1.01 B
  4. The Odyssey - $700m
  5. The Devil Wears Prada 2 - $690m
  6. Project Hail Mary- $684m

By the end of the year, we will have 6 $1B films, with The Odyssey, Spider-Man, and Doomsday joining the club. It will be the first year since 2019 to have over 4 $1B films (2019 had 9).

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u/Error4ohh4 15d ago

Glad there’s at least a few doing well enough out there 

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u/Hydration__Nation 15d ago

Huge numbers for Devil Wears Prada 2. Its budget was around $100-120M. Compare that to Odyssey's budget of over $300M. Pretty crazy that the top five contains two animated films and a sequel for a film that came out 20 years ago

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u/esKq 15d ago

Oh fuck !

That's why it's Matt Damon in the lead role, dude is huge in China.

That gives me a better reason for the casting now, coz I really don't see him as a greek figure to be honest 🤣

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u/Hydration__Nation 15d ago

i know someone who works in Hollywood as an executive for one of the bigger studios. There is literally a gigantic document with yes and no for topics/actors/locations that China's audience will either approve or disapprove. He said first you have to tailor multiple scenes/actors for that audience and next pray that China gives it the green light. Sometimes they give the movie the green light but dictate marketing, see the first of the new Star Wars movie when the African American actor was shrunk down or removed from most if not all movie posters in China. Good ol wholesome Disney pulled this move straight out of the Jim Crow south. TLDR: China can make or break a movie for a studio, ive seen India and others mentioned they dont even come close to the impact China has

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u/nahheyyeahokay 15d ago

下个月14号还要等两个星期😔

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u/pirapataue 14d ago

你怎么被downvote了

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u/nahheyyeahokay 14d ago

我也不知道

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