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 Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $394m & counting neo_wolf wrote: Jon wrote: Considering most of these were family films and action films with well-proven hooks, this makes Life of Pi (Which didn't have any proven draws or obvious hooks) all the more impressive. Amazing how such a big gamble for Fox ended up paying off in spades. Ang Lee must be so happy. While LOP B.O is very impressive it was based on a popular book, so it did have a hook. I don't think the fan base of LoP can be compared to those of Twilight, HP, LotR and other popular book adaptations. Certainly they didn't make this movie thinking fan base is enough to cover cost.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $394m & counting Nazgul9 wrote: Avatar should absolutely be in there. As well as many others. Just because it was successful and spawned sequels it shouldn't be excluded from the list. I agree. All (more or less) original movies should be there despite some of them spawning sequels. There's no reason to exclude the first movie in the series whatsoever. It was after all at that point an unproven and risky take.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $394m & counting Life of Pi took in another $17.6 million overseas from 6,566 screens in 60 markets, pushing its overseas total to $422.4 million. The global total is an impressive $525.9 million. This is headed for $600 m ww!  http://www.boxoffice.com/latest-news/20 ... -dominates
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $422m & counting Japan is still ahead, hm? Yeah, $600 million has a 90% chance of happening now.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $422m & counting It opened in Japan this week. $3.7m opening it seems.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $422m & counting Oh, ok...in that case, I don't think $600 million will happen. Should settle for $580-590 million.
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $422m & counting Yeah it might not reach $600m WW in the end still it is a BIG success for makers.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $422m & counting it will make at least 25M more in japan(may be 30 if its legs are great which is not far fetched). Other markets can add 30M more. It will make between 115-120M domestic. So 600M is probable at this point.
Also FOX reported 4.7M OW for Pi in japan. If that is accurate then 600M is a lock.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $422m & counting $4.7 million would be the 3-day total. The actual opening weekend figures are seldom reported by the studios for Friday openers.
Still, it's an impressive number that will give it a $25-30 million range.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $443m & counting $10.1m/$443.5m
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $443m & counting Probably another $50m worldwide might be out of reach, but congrats on an amazing run to around $580m worldwide.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $443m & counting Yeah its amazing. $500m is still possible IMO.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $456m & counting $6.2m/$456m
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $456m & counting Not only the total staggering its holds are amazing all over.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $456m & counting I made a "Over 500m WW club" for this at Boxoffice.com before the movie opened. Only 1 'In' (that was me), and 24 'Out'. That's what the Mortal Kombat announcer would call a flawless victory!
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) Not dead yet:
$3.7m/$466.3m
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) So looks like $475m though it could do a little more IMO if it wins many Oscars (or the most).
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) Insane numbers.
Only 12 non-sequels have ever made more overseas. ONLY TWELVE!
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $2m/$471m
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) This should see a boost after receiving the most wins (4) of the Oscars, including Best Director.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) Yeah the Best Director win should get it some boost.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $2.8m/$477m
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) Look like it will get to $600m WW. Just incredible.
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) Yes for a 2-hour serious movie with an unknown actor this is a HUGE total even with all the Oscar buzz.
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Re: Life of Pi (INTL) $1.2m/$480.9m
$600m WW
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