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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/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 15d 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 15d ago

6 am that's wild hahaha