Box Office Weekend
Tropic Thunder took the top box office draw this weekend taking in an estimated $26 million with a five-day opening total of $37 million. It’s an R-rated film, which means the bulk of the audience is over 25 – that’s quite a draw.
Batman sequel The Dark Knight became the second highest grossing movie of all time domestically, passing up the original Star Wars. The Batman movie took in an estimated $16.8 million with a total of $471.5 million in just 30 days.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which opened to an estimated $15.5 million, came in third.
Mirrors being a horror film, the only one currently, took that market and the number four spot with $11.1 million.
Vicky Cristinia Barcelona opened in only 692 screens took the number ten spot with an estimated $3.7 million.
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And the Consumer Price Index is up about 30% just since 1997. Star Wars is still the king when it comes to the only figure anyone who doesn’t have points on the film cares about: butts in seats.
Box Office Mojo has a handy chart. Ticket prices averaged $2.23 in 1977, $4.59 in ’97 for Titanic and an estimated $7.08 for this year. Star Wars got its money with substantially cheaper tickets than either Titanic or Dark Knight. And it is right that it is so.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm
Michael,
While I was writing this article on the box office tally, I had the same thought. Prices were a lot lesser back when the original Star Wars appeared on the silver screen for the first time.
That says a lot for Star Wars still today. Thanks for sharing your link, too.