X3 Box Office Tracker

[AznBABYBANDIT]

In recent interview they said they want 500 world wide... Thats imppsoibility here... China... ( we HJong Konger and Macaus ) got it. Japan Bootleged...

 

[Iceman]

Yeah 500 is way out of reach. It was looking possible after the opening weekend but it dropped too much on the 2nd weekend.

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

Yea... Thoose lazy people at homes, wanting X4 but wont watch movie 3/4 times is useless...

I watch 3 times this week, adding up to 8 times already...

 

[Iceman]

3 times this week. That's dedication. I watched it once last week but it's going to go out of theaters very soon.

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

Mine's out in 2 weeks...

But still got Director's Room to watch it in... You can still watch RoTS there...

though the tickets are 150USD per ticket... Yet only few seats in the room, you get to move the chair electronically to see thigns nicer...

so Fox gets about 80 USD for that...

I watched twice there... 160, but cant help to watch 20 times... I'm broke soon...

 

[Iceman]

What is this director's room? I've never heard of it.

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

Derectors lounge or something... Cant rem the name... i live in Hong Kong... So... thoose who do too translate it for me too...

 

[gambitfire]

Thats disappointing to hear.


Well a lot of people were dazzled by the movie.Sorry you felt that way about it though.

it's like a convinient retaliation statement, they are obviously defending X3 so it wouldn't help their argument to say Superman was a good movie or the ppl around them actually liked it. We don't know the truth and never will so they can say all they want, Only they know. I can honeslty say alot of the ppl i know preferred Superman over X3 while they had more anticipation for X3. But then again you'll never know if im telling the truth .

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

i agree with gambit.

 

[X-Maniac]

it's like a convinient retaliation statement, they are obviously defending X3 so it wouldn't help their argument to say Superman was a good movie or the ppl around them actually liked it. We don't know the truth and never will so they can say all they want, Only they know. I can honeslty say alot of the ppl i know preferred Superman over X3 while they had more anticipation for X3. But then again you'll never know if im telling the truth .

Errm.. excuse me! I was one of the people to whom Retro was responding. I was not 'retaliating' at all... I was honestly expecting SR to be perfect in every way, but it wasn't... I heard negative comments as I left the auditorium as well, and I know only one other person who has gone to see it. Seeing SR raised my appreciation for X3. I thought X3 lacked subtlety and attention to detail in places and I expected SR to deliver on every level... but it hasn't.

Off the internet, in the real world, I've heard absolutely no negative comments about X3, but I have heard at least three sets of negative comments about SR as well as a friend saying he just doesn't want to bother with seeing it (he loved X3 and thought it was the best, most watchable and most eciting of all the X-movies).

I'm sorry to say that POTC2 proves what people want from a summer blockbuster - adventure, fun, energy, action. X3 had those things much more than SR. The box office reflects this. SR was far too leaden and laboured for a lot of people - and remaking a 30-year-old movie is just not good enough (as King Kong also proves)...

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

I'm sorry to say that POTC2 proves what people want from a summer blockbuster - adventure, fun, energy, action. X3 had those things much more than SR. The box office reflects this. SR was far too leaden and laboured for a lot of people - and remaking a 30-year-old movie is just not good enough (as King Kong also proves)...

Agrees, old films are NOOO good ( apart from Starwars)

 

[gambitfire]

well i don't know if your telling the truth, that's all im saying .

BTW SR did get more better reviews .

Yet more ppl saw X3 so yea your right it does say what ppl want more. Less of something good.

Oh and you call it a rehash but alot of ppl i know call it a homage. Believe what you want.

this entire post to X-Maniac.

Some Maniac, didn't even notice that practically all the character in the movie didn't potray their true selves.

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

Yea, it did, but... X3 also got some... (EVIL TOMATOEs)

 

[X-Maniac]

Critics have no power or influence any more. The internet has taken it away. No longer do critics offer us an exclusive insight - they don't have the upper hand on all the information because it's all over the web. So critics often have to resort to being clever with puns and 'witty' headlines and sarcastic intellectualism.

Rotten tomatoes is irrelevant, as is every other piece of 'professional' criticism. The people out there 'on the street' decide if something is promising, or good. If Rotten Tomatoes was so powerful, then all box office would reflect its verdicts....

 

[COME ON !]

Critics have no power or influence any more. The internet has taken it away. No longer do critics offer us an exclusive insight - they don't have the upper hand on all the information because it's all over the web. So critics often have to resort to being clever with puns and 'witty' headlines and sarcastic intellectualism.

Rotten tomatoes is irrelevant, as is every other piece of 'professional' criticism. The people out there 'on the street' decide if something is promising, or good. If Rotten Tomatoes was so powerful, then all box office would reflect its verdicts....

So true

 

[danoyse]

Seeing SR raised my appreciation for X3. I thought X3 lacked subtlety and attention to detail in places and I expected SR to deliver on every level... but it hasn't.

I fully expected to leave SR with much lesser opinion of X3, but that didn't happen at all. And I liked SR, I've seen it twice. They both balanced each other out--X3 delivered the action, SR delivered the character development and both lacked vice versa. But I did enjoy both of them.

Off the internet, in the real world, I've heard absolutely no negative comments about X3, but I have heard at least three sets of negative comments about SR as well as a friend saying he just doesn't want to bother with seeing it (he loved X3 and thought it was the best, most watchable and most eciting of all the X-movies).

The closest thing I heard to negative about X3 in the real world was that it "fell a little short." But I know people who've seen it a few times, my dad's friend saw it without having seen the first two and loved it, my brother-in-law snuck off to see it and said it was "***** awesome."

I've seen it 4 times, and even the last time towards the end of the run, it was still decently crowded and the audience has reacted positvely, and most have stayed for the scene after the credits.

I saw SR on opening night in NYC (which was a madhouse opening night for Spiderman), and at a sold-out IMAX theater. It was definitely a muted reaction, but not so much a negative one either. It seemed people were just expecting more from it.

I'm sorry to say that POTC2 proves what people want from a summer blockbuster - adventure, fun, energy, action. X3 had those things much more than SR. The box office reflects this. SR was far too leaden and laboured for a lot of people - and remaking a 30-year-old movie is just not good enough (as King Kong also proves)...

And I loved King Kong...

Another thing with POTC, is that it's probably got the widest reaching audience. Families, couples...that teenage Orlando Bloom-obsessed crowd. Must more than a typical comic book audience.

I remember Steve Martin plugging a movie on Letterman that was opening the same weekend as "Harry Potter." He said "Well, Harry Potter has a very specific audience. Everyone."

It's kind of the same thing with Pirates. It just transcended every genre.

 

[Iceman]

Whatever reservations I personally have about X3 and can be found on the internet, all non fans I have spoken to have loved the film. They are probably not looking for the same things in the film that those overly familiar with the characters are.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

i thought this movie was more familiar to the comic characters than any of singer's films... i just think people expected more of "singer's X-men"

 

[Iceman]

i thought this movie was more familiar to the comic characters than any of singer's films... i just think people expected more of "singer's X-men"

I don't disagree with that. What I meant above is that factors such as the lack of development of certain characters and deaths of major characters would not be as much of an issue to the general audience as to fans of the source material. Unbothered by any of these and related factors, they can enjoy the film a lot more. Fans will never like deaths for example, even when handled well, as they rule out favourites from future films.

 

[ntcrawler]

i thought this movie was more familiar to the comic characters than any of singer's films... i just think people expected more of "singer's X-men"

Keeping things consistent across films would be a big plus, especially if it's supposed to be a packaged trilogy. Suddenly changing direction and style for the most anticipated film out of the 3 is not good.

 

[ntcrawler]

I don't disagree with that. What I meant above is that factors such as the lack of development of certain characters and deaths of major characters would not be as much of an issue to the general audience as to fans of the source material. Unbothered by any of these and related factors, they can enjoy the film a lot more. Fans will never like deaths for example, even when handled well, as they rule out favourites from future films.

Not necessarily. In Star Wars, fans accepted Ben Kenobi's and Quigon Jinn's death. In X2 they accepted Jean's death. Fans accepted death in the Alien trilogy, in the Terminator films, in Predator, and a host of other films. It all depends on how that death is set up, and whether it serves a purpose or has an effect on the plot, or whether it was just done for the hell of it. All those factors make a BIG difference.

 

[YJ1]

X-MEN:THE LAST STAND

Domestic Total as of Jul. 25, 2006: $233,025,813

Release Date: May 26, 2006

Production Budget: $210 million

TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES
Domestic: $233,025,813 53.0%
+ Foreign: $206,811,344 47.0%

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= Worldwide: $439,837,157

not bad ^_^

Those are outstanding numbers.

X3 has popped up at bargain cinemas all over my area ($1.50 tickets). How do these theatres factor in to the box office? Do they just pay the studio a flat fee to carry the film for a certain time or do they report individual ticket sales?

 

[3 Dev Adam]

You you're not even counting the DVD sales.

 

[Advanced Dark]

No China #'s yet?

 

[Advanced Dark]

You you're not even counting the DVD sales.

Or TV rights.