Spider-Man 2 tanks at the box office this weekend

[Vigilance]

This movie will make a profit long before DVD... at this rate its on pace for a world wide gross of 500 mil easy.

Chuck

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Err, i guess you havnt heard of blue laser disks that Sony and other companies are developing.
Paper Thin and hold 13 gigs on a single side.....

Those arent limited....

 

[Fast Learner]

Ticket prices are high and going higher but the cost of the ticket is not the only way threatres make money, food at 500% mark up!

For most theaters, concessions are the only way they make money, with ticket prices just paying for the films.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Err, i guess you havnt heard of blue laser disks that Sony and other companies are developing.
Paper Thin and hold 13 gigs on a single side.....

Those arent limited....

I think Hand of Evil was referring to DVDs that "self-destruct" after X amount of plays or length of time. I know Disney was working on such a technology.

So, you take Little Mermaid out of the case, it gets exposed to air and starts deteriorating. Your kids watch it every night for 6 months. You find yourself at work humming "Kiss the Girl" while making copies. Then you come home one day and the kids are crying because the disc won't play anymore. You have to schlep down to Target and buy another one, and somewhere, Michael Eisner buys a new pony.

 

[Henry]

The original Spider-man Movie grossed $800 million worldwide; Spider-man 2 is poised to do even better than that, because it's a DARNED GOOD FILM, possibly even better than the first one, if it's possible. They're gonna need to kill off Aunt May in the Third film to beat the record this one sets.

 

[Kai Lord]

The Monday estimates are already up: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2004&wknd=27a&p=.htm

Spider-Man 2 has actually made $180 million dollars since it opened....

 

[Uzumaki]

Another thing to consider is that this was a major holiday weekend. A lot more people probably spent it outside at barbeques, parks, getting drunk, etc., than at the movie theater.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

1) Do any of these "box office totals" include number of tickets, rather than just the total ticket price? These "biggest box office take ever" reports are all well and good, but if we're having a decline in the number of tickets sold, that's not good. (Then again, I haven't gone to see a movie at a theater in a couple years. I don't have the attention span to sit through a movie, any more...)

2) Say it ain't so about the "self-destruct DVDs"!!! Has this technology been put into use? Some of my DVDs are several years old, and I haven't watched them yet. A DVD that self-destructs after six months, that would cause me to stop buying DVDs (and start downloading pirated copies), since I'd be paying $20 to maybe watch a movie once...

 

[Datt]

Actually I think the technology isn't a time period, it is set number of plays. So after your kids watch The Little Mermaid for the 500th time you will have to go and buy a new copy. That kind of thing. I am sure that is what they miss about VHS.

 

[Fast Learner]

1) Do any of these "box office totals" include number of tickets, rather than just the total ticket price? These "biggest box office take ever" reports are all well and good, but if we're having a decline in the number of tickets sold, that's not good. (Then again, I haven't gone to see a movie at a theater in a couple years. I don't have the attention span to sit through a movie, any more...)

No, it's always dollars, and as such it's pretty pointless for comparison. For numbers adjusted for inflation see Box Office Mojo. Another good comparison is at Filmsite.

2) Say it ain't so about the "self-destruct DVDs"!!! Has this technology been put into use? Some of my DVDs are several years old, and I haven't watched them yet. A DVD that self-destructs after six months, that would cause me to stop buying DVDs (and start downloading pirated copies), since I'd be paying $20 to maybe watch a movie once...

No, you'd pay $5 or so for the disc. The idea is that it would be akin to a rental that you never needed to return. The oxidation times I've read about are measured in days, not months. In theory you'd still be able to buy non-self-destructing DVDs as well (though the price would probably go up since a good chunk of the market might get eaten by the self-destructing ones).