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dangermousieI cannot believe it. That is an insane amount of money, and well-deserved too, since the movie was phenomenal.
Bye-bye any highest daily gross record. If there was any midnight record kept, it would be dead too (ETA. There was. It was $8m for Return of the King). For comparison, AotC got $7m. Even if ROTS is quite frontloaded, considering how much AotC made, Lucas will be able to buy a medium-sized country after this. The posters over at boxofficemojo are going psycho over this. Here's the article.
From Hollywood Reporter
May 20, 2005
'Revenge of Sith' midnight shows reap about $17 million
By Brian Fuson
While the storm troopers of doubt circled the beleaguered boxoffice of late, the Force was beginning to flex its power as 20th Century Fox's "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" was shattering records out of the gate with an estimated $16.5 million-to-$17 million in receipts from the midnight shows alone, the distributor said Thursday. "We'll be counting the grosses for a while. It's an absolutely remarkable number. It seems like the industry got kickstarted last night at midnight," said Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution for Fox. Snyder noted that final numbers will not be available for some time because midnight shows are not usually broken out of a single day's gross at the boxoffice. "Revenge of the Sith" began playing midnight shows in 2,900 theaters in North America at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Snyder could not give a firm screen count, but noted that it could be significantly higher because of interlocking, the practice of taking one print and showing it on multiple screens within a theater, and the lack of any other films playing midnight shows on Thursday.
Bye-bye any highest daily gross record. If there was any midnight record kept, it would be dead too (ETA. There was. It was $8m for Return of the King). For comparison, AotC got $7m. Even if ROTS is quite frontloaded, considering how much AotC made, Lucas will be able to buy a medium-sized country after this. The posters over at boxofficemojo are going psycho over this. Here's the article.
From Hollywood Reporter
May 20, 2005
'Revenge of Sith' midnight shows reap about $17 million
By Brian Fuson
While the storm troopers of doubt circled the beleaguered boxoffice of late, the Force was beginning to flex its power as 20th Century Fox's "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" was shattering records out of the gate with an estimated $16.5 million-to-$17 million in receipts from the midnight shows alone, the distributor said Thursday. "We'll be counting the grosses for a while. It's an absolutely remarkable number. It seems like the industry got kickstarted last night at midnight," said Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution for Fox. Snyder noted that final numbers will not be available for some time because midnight shows are not usually broken out of a single day's gross at the boxoffice. "Revenge of the Sith" began playing midnight shows in 2,900 theaters in North America at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Snyder could not give a firm screen count, but noted that it could be significantly higher because of interlocking, the practice of taking one print and showing it on multiple screens within a theater, and the lack of any other films playing midnight shows on Thursday.
