Journal #6351
Posted 14 years ago2010-01-26 18:01:20 UTC
Well, ever since the 14th of December 1997, it's finally has happened. After just 39 days in theaters, James Cameron's Avatar surpassed Cameron's own Titanic on Monday at the worldwide box office to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Both released by 20th Century Fox, Avatar has reached $1,858,866,889 while Titanic earned $1,843,201,268 total.
The studio says that a whopping' 72% of Avatar's ticket sales, or $1.35 billion, has come from 3D venues. The domestic total now stands at $554.98 million, which still trails Titanic's $600.8 million, but probably not for long. Internationally, the film has reached $1.3 billion compared to Titanic's $1.242 billion.
SOURCE: http://www.ercboxoffice.com/
Personal Comment: Well I suppose it's official, that the future of cinema is 3D, there is no going back now. This also means that it will be overall lot more expensive to go to the theaters soon, regardless what movie you go see, since now every movie studio will want to jump in to the 3D bandwagon also.
The studio says that a whopping' 72% of Avatar's ticket sales, or $1.35 billion, has come from 3D venues. The domestic total now stands at $554.98 million, which still trails Titanic's $600.8 million, but probably not for long. Internationally, the film has reached $1.3 billion compared to Titanic's $1.242 billion.
SOURCE: http://www.ercboxoffice.com/
Personal Comment: Well I suppose it's official, that the future of cinema is 3D, there is no going back now. This also means that it will be overall lot more expensive to go to the theaters soon, regardless what movie you go see, since now every movie studio will want to jump in to the 3D bandwagon also.
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If every movie was 3D, I wouldn't be able to take the 'deep' movies seriously.
Plus, 2D movies make my mom jump sometimes. Imagine what would happen if the objects flying towards the camera were 3D.
Clearly you've seen nothing where it's been done well.
Avatar doesn't have objects "flying towards the camera." It's all very subtle, and makes the experience much more submersive.
As for price, to go and see a film in the Glasgow Imax is only ~?1 more expensive than regular cinemas.
Woo.
Hoo.
(Edit: not saying anything about Avatar, it was awesome. Just predicting a surge in crappy movies in the future.)
Make Star Wars Episodes 7, 8 and 9 now in full 3D! Use Avatar's level of CGI for all the aliens. Oh, and while you are at it, film all 3 movies back to back, like it was done with "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Am I asking for too much?
Stop making movies!
Am I asking for too much?
(games anyone?)
In fact, I actually addressed that in the post I was GOING to post, until I refreshed, and lost it, and posted that pitiful post you see up there.