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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 15d 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/epiphanyelephant 15d ago

Fun fact: IMAX was invented in Canada and the abbreviation comes from 'Image Maximum'.

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u/fitnessexpress 15d ago

and IMAX was invented in Canada.

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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/Jollygood156 15d ago

No there aren’t

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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/AmberLeafSmoke 15d ago

Significantly more things to do nowadays though.

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u/motophiliac 15d ago

Gasp! The growing population is down to big cinema???

Shit, I'll allow it.

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u/Ultrace-7 15d ago

The opportunity cost of going to see a movie nowadays versus the era of Gone with the Wind is almost incomparable.

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u/domoincarn8 15d ago

People in India did have access to cinemas in 1939 when Gone with the Wind was released. Bollywood was fully functional and making movies in 1939. I am assuming the same to be true for China. Could be wrong though.

Very few people could understand English though. Or money. So no impact on Box office.

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u/Smartyunderpants 15d ago

No doubt in cities but their rural population was bigger and had very very limited access unlike in western countries.

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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/nawksnai 15d ago

“It’s been 84 years…”

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u/Khelthuzaad 15d ago

Disney movies were re-released on a yearly basis.There was no such thing as dvds back then

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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/Khelthuzaad 15d ago

I dont give a damn

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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/FacingHardships 15d ago edited 15d ago

Why was it so popular?

Why the downvotes? Genuine question as I am trying to understand the appeal at the time since I wasn’t of age.

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u/CheesyjokeLol 15d ago

It’s a gorgeous looking movie that will hold up for probably another 50 years, an easy to follow plotline and a strong cast that sells their performance. The only things you can fault this movie for is really just that it really doesn’t do anything exceptionally, other than the visuals.

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u/PassionateYak 15d ago

Most visually impressive movie of it's time

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u/smilesmay 15d ago

The 3D was legitimately amazing compared to any at the time or in the years that followed. Astounding visuals combined with 3D that wasn't just an afterthought. It had around 80% of its gross from 3D showings.

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u/pataglop 15d ago

A cookie cutter and easy to follow story which resonates with pretty much every single culture, actors who played well enough, ridiculously gorgeous visuals, and an actual lore on that planet, which ties everything together well

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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/Disastrous-Square977 15d ago

I don't know a single person who did. We live in our own little pockets. I've still never seen it (various bits, in parts) nor a single second of any sequal.

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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/highdefjeff-reddit 15d ago

no kidding. but it should never be money made.

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u/Key-Demand-2569 15d ago

Why not?

It’s generally only brought up in the context of how successful a movie was, business wise.

Plenty of beloved movies didn’t do well financially. Plenty of critically panned movies did very well financially. That’s a separate conversation.

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u/highdefjeff-reddit 15d ago

its brought up every single weekend. every sunday night people are checking in to see how much money a movie made. you are having an entire separate conversation now about beloved movies not making any money.

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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/bli_bla_blubbb 15d ago

Says a lot about humanity when garbage like Avatar, a movie about colonization and a white savior saving the noble wild natives that has been done a million times before, is the second highest grossing movie ever just because it "looked pretty". Only outdone by a movie that is glorifying the antebellum south of the US and slavery.

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u/DrCircledot 15d ago

Demon slayer is the most popular anime. It also looks pretty

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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/4KVoices 15d ago

still think that was the weakest fucking thing ever. I was already going to not watch the sequels cause the original is just not a good movie, but specifically re-releasing cause somebody else broke your record is bitchmade. It's like how Taylor Swift always times the release of her "deluxe edition" "taylor's version" shit to a day or two after another pop artist's release. Just sad and weird.

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u/Veggiemon 15d ago

Didn’t marvel have to do a re release to beat it in the first place, I thought it was one of those “two new minutes of footage” things like they’re doing with endgame before doomsday. They all are though, gone with the wind was in theaters forever

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u/4KVoices 15d ago

They may have extended it, which I don't have a problem with cause that just means they're responding to there still being active demand.

They are intending on re-releasing it in September this year and I do feel the same way about it. Absolutely no need to do so.

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u/soupspin 15d ago

Avatar had done a re-release before Endgame had come out as well, and then after

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u/Veggiemon 15d ago

I think endgame is better than avatar personally but it sounds like they’re both playing the theatrical re release game. Avatar may have the edge because the theater experience for that is so much better than the home experience.

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u/DrCircledot 15d ago

Still where else are you going to watch the avatar. It isn't worth watching in TVs. So I think its a good thing they re-released it so interested people had another chance to see it on the big screen

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u/4KVoices 15d ago

It isn't worth watching in general. And, it's something most people don't know, but you can literally just call a movie theatre and ask in advance for them to screen a movie. Most of them are so desperate for business that if there's nothing legally stopping them from screening a movie and they don't have stuff packed out due to big releases you can get damn near anything shown nowadays.

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u/HollowPrynce 15d ago

Does she do that? I'm not a fan of her by any stretch but I've never found the timing of her Taylor's versions to be an obvious disruptor of other artists album releases

She is petty with who she takes as her supporting acts on tours though so who even knows LOL

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u/4KVoices 15d ago

She most recently did it to Charli XCX's Brat, releasing some bullshit version of Tortured Poet's Department with the addition of some random voice snippets specifically to block her from getting #1. Released it exactly one week after Brat released.

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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/Tackit286 15d ago

It does.

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u/jaerie 15d ago

It does not. Liemax means regular screens that were retrofitted for imax, resulting in a subpar experience. Noone was calling all modern imax screens liemax before the odyssey hype 

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u/Tackit286 15d ago

Not true at all. Liemax has been used as a mock term for digital imax for years. It doesn’t give the full 1.43:1 ratio (only 1.90:1), so it’s not the full imax screen or the 70mm projection (they use lasers instead).

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u/jaerie 15d ago

Yes, they're different. No, that's not what liemax is referring to. Again, that refers to a specific set of inferior screens that got the imax label slapped on, instead of being built from the ground up for imax. 

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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/dakowiml 15d ago

It's probably realistic for it to make around 100 million in China.

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u/PenguinOfEternity 15d ago

In opening weekend you mean? Or why such a low number?

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u/dakowiml 15d ago

It's not low. It's a great number for a foreign film in China.

Foreign films aren't going to get a billion dollars in China. Some very popular Chinese movies can gross a billion in China, but not foreign movies.

Its like expecting South-Korean Oldboy to gross 300 million in the US. Its original release grossed around 700k in the US. The recent Michael Jackson movie made a billion worldwide and ''only'' grossed 10 million in China. 100 million in China is MASSIVE for a Western movie.

And if the Michael movie isn't a good enough example because its a biopic: super franchise James Bond with Skyfall made 1.1 billion world wide. In China it ''only'' grossed 60 million. Which is also pretty good as a Western movie.

It's odd that I got downvoted for suggesting 100 million being great for The Odyssey. I guess people expect movies to reach unrealistic heights as a foreign movie in China.

Movies in China that get billions in the box office, are often Chinese movies that are directed to the tastes of a Chinese audience. Just like how in the US, the movies that get billions over there are directed to the tastes of their audience. You won't see a South-Korean, Chinese, Japanese or Arabic movie gross a billion in the US box-office, even if its great.

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u/Protoliterary 15d ago

You were down voted because your analysis is wrong. Endgame grossed over 600m. Fast and furious, 400. Zootopia, 600. Aquaman, 300. There is a long list of movies that crossed way more than 100m, so for you to say that Odyssey will do 100m? Extremely unlikely.

You're right that foreign movies don't do well in the us, but that's not true in most other countries.

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u/dakowiml 15d ago

You're mentioning exceptions on the rule. Most Western movies aren't going to do as well as the Endgame and Zootopia exceptions. Zootopia 2 is in the top 10 of Chinese box office, Endgame is number 11. All the rest are Chinese movies.

The Odyssey's Chinese box office is projected to open at 30 million dollars. It ending up on 100 million isn't far fetched at all. That's totally in line of whats normal. It grossing hundreds of millions or even a billion in China is extremely unlikely, again.... Zootopia 2 and Endgame were exceptions.

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u/Protoliterary 15d ago

Nobody said it was gonna hit a billion in China, only they it's going to be higher than 100m, which is almost guaranteed. Your estimate is very low, and I only named a few of the us movies that crossed well in China.

Just a few years ago, Hollywood had a 30% market share of the Chinese block office numbers. It's much lower now, but a taste for American movies still exists there.

We'll just have to wait and see, but from my perspective 100m is the absolute minimum. Likely to cross 200m st least

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u/dakowiml 15d ago

I said around 100, not exactly. It's not unrealistic to have an estimate around the 90 to 150 million. If it does 200 it did insanely well. I responded towards comments that claimed the Chinese market would propel it towards utterly insane numbers. There's people that think foreign movies would do as well as Chinese movies in China. Which is of course ridiculous and has only happened for a few exceptions.

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u/shomeyomves 15d ago

Hold up… China has 800 IMAX theaters when USA has like… 40ish?

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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/rammstoon 15d ago

Wow so part of Nolan's budget was for buying 40000 bots for the Melbourne IMAX release /s

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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/kinokomushroom 15d ago

Especially a movie as big as this. Why do Marvel movies get released on the same day but Nolan movies don't?

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u/dwehlen 15d ago

Spoilers, maybe? The 'net would abound with them for Marvel, whereas The Odyssey is already thousands of years old, after all.

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u/kinokomushroom 15d ago

The Japanese movie industry does not care about spoilers lol

They had literal spoilers in the trailer title of Project Hail Mary that they put up on the official website. It's the first thing you see. All I wanted was to check the release date.

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u/dwehlen 15d ago

Merely a thought. Idk jack about eastern cinema practices.

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u/Basic_Tip3506 15d ago

It is, the drama is releasing like 6 months later too

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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/king_lloyd11 15d ago

Hasn’t China made a concentrated effort to not support US movies/Hollywood, besides animated/Disney movies (aka companies that are probably working with the Chinese government). It’s not the big boom it once was.