Twilight bigger than The Dark Knight?! HAHAHAHAHHA

[Riff Magnum]

Originally Posted by School

i thought the dark knight sucked. the only reason it did so well is because of the death of heath ledger (i dont care what anyone says its the truth).. on the other hand i did see twilight and i though it was great even for a chick flick it was a great movie

Another person who says a movie sucks, but actually owns the fricking movie. I'll never figure these people out. WE CAN SEE WHAT MOVIES YOU OWN!!

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by School

i thought the dark knight sucked. the only reason it did so well is because of the death of heath ledger (i dont care what anyone says its the truth).. on the other hand i did see twilight and i though it was great even for a chick flick it was a great movie

Right, because the direction, acting, story and special effects all sucked. Good thing Ledger was able to pull it out of the fire.

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

Another person who says a movie sucks, but actually owns the fricking movie. I'll never figure these people out. WE CAN SEE WHAT MOVIES YOU OWN!!

[School]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

Another person who says a movie sucks, but actually owns the fricking movie. I'll never figure these people out. WE CAN SEE WHAT MOVIES YOU OWN!!

its called a gift

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by School

its called a gift

Too bad your family and friends don't know you nor your taste in movies very well

[School]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Too bad your family and friends don't know you nor your taste in movies very well

work grab bag ... and good luck p@t i will be at the game tonight.. im a devils fan though should be a good game ..

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by School

the only reason it did so well is because of the death of heath ledger (i dont care what anyone says its the truth)

You're right. That why Almost Heroes and Canadian Bacon were such mega blockbusters due to the deaths of Chris Farley and John Candy.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by Crim122

My roommate (who is a male) has seen it 5 times, and has not even finished the first book...

I am like WTF

You can get chicks from twilight. And I'm not kidding!

[School]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

You're right. That why Almost Heroes and Canadian Bacon were such mega blockbusters due to the deaths of Chris Farley and John Candy.

also check the sales of nirvana after the death of Cobain

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by School

also check the sales of nirvana after the death of Cobain

Nirvana was huge when Cobain was alive.

[masoud90]

They do have the stats...

[School]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

Nirvana was huge when Cobain was alive.

im not talking popularity im talking sales

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by School

im not talking popularity im talking sales

Popularity and sales go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by School

work grab bag ... and good luck p@t i will be at the game tonight.. im a devils fan though should be a good game ..

Hey! good for you, I can't afford going to the games anymore, it's crazy the prices I haven't gone to a Canadiens games since 1993, at the old Forum. I am hoping we win tonight, Boston is driving me crazy this year, got to keep pace with them.

[School]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Hey! good for you, I can't afford going to the games anymore, it's crazy the prices I haven't gone to a Canadiens games since 1993, at the old Forum. I am hoping we win tonight, Boston is driving me crazy this year, got to keep pace with them.

i attend about 25 homes games a year here in NJ. i only pay 20 to 30 per ticket.. Dont worry about Boston playoffs will change everything they will be just like San Jose.. BTW im jealous of Tenguay i wanted him so bad

[STARSCREAM]

What a joke.

[blu-mike]

Originally Posted by 1ICON

I just had to post this. Comes straight from Yahoo Movies/E! Online.


There basically saying Twilight and a handful of other movies were WAY BETTER than the dark knight, only because they tripled or quadripled their revenues.
I think they were bored?


http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.eonline.com/76842-


"If only Wall Street had bet on Twilight. Or Hannah Montana. Or Kirk Cameron.

With a $167.3 million overall domestic take as Sunday, per Box Office Mojo, Twilight made more than four times its reported $37 million production budget—the best rate of return on any film in the 2008 Top 10, including The Dark Knight.

The Batman epic was a pretty good investment, too, very nearly tripling its gargantuan $185 million budget with a $530.8 million domestic take, Hollywood's second-biggest ever.

Still, The Dark Knight was nothing compared to these off-the-charts performers: High School Musical 3: Senior Year ($89.7 million), which grossed about eight times its $11 million budget; the Hannah Montana concert movie, which made about nine times its $7 million budget; and, Cameron's Fireproof, which cost $500,000 to produce, and made $33.1 million—or, more than 60 times its budget.

Other winners—and losers—of the box-office year that was, per stats from Box Office Mojo and The-Numbers.com:

Winners:

• Titanic. If The Dark Knight couldn't get within even $50 million of the big-boat movie, then maybe it really won't ever be sunk as Hollywood's all-time domestic box-office king. • Robert Downey Jr. Rising from The Shaggy Dog, Downey was the only star to score two Top 20 live-action hits, Iron Man ($318.3 million) and Tropic Thunder ($110.5 million). • Will Smith. With apologies to Downey, Smith was the only star to sell a Top 10 movie, Hancock ($227.9 million), solely with his name. • Women. Tween and teen girls flocked to Twilight. Actresses fronted, or helped front, four Top 20 hits: Sex and the City ($152.6 million), Mamma Mia! ($143.8 million), Wanted ($134.3 million) and Four Christmases ($111.8 million). • Paris Hilton. Her opus, The Hottie & the Nottie ($27,696), was so not the lowest-grossing movie of the year. In fact, it reigned over films starring Catherine Zeta-Jones (Death Defying Acts, $3,561), Heather Graham (Miss Conception, $1,503) and Nick Stahl (How to Rob a Bank, $711—yes, $711).

In-Betweeners:

• Hollywood. Despite The Dark Knight, overall revenue was down $86.8 million from last year, a drop of about 1 percent. Ticket sales fell even further—a dip of about about 4.25 percent, representing 59.1 million fewer admissions. But, given the nation's economic meltdown, things could have been worse, and, oddly, things got better after Wall Street's collapse in September. "I think the fact that the Industry held its own is remarkable," Exhibitor Relations' Jeff Bock said. • Speed Racer. In May, this looked like the flop of the year. Then came the $130 million Australia ($44.3 million gross), and the realization by Disney that Prince Caspian ($141.6 million) wasn't The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ($291.7 million). In the end, Speed was still a bomb—$43.9 million gross; $120 million budget—but it wasn't the bomb. • Adam Sandler. You Don't Mess with the Zohan ($100 million) didn't bomb, but it didn't clear its $90 million budget by much. Bedtime Stories, which opened on Christmas, isn't bombing, but it isn't Night at the Museum. • Brendan Fraser. Put him in a $145 million movie, like The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, or a $60 million movie, like Journey to the Center of the Earth, and you get the same result: a so-so $100 million or so gross. • M. Night Shyamalan. His The Happening ($64.5 million) made more than it cost, but people disliked it about as much as Lady in the Water.

Losers:

• Wallets. The average ticket price hit $7.20, the National Association of Theatre Owners reported on its blog, a new all-time high. • Blockbusters. Of the year's 24 members of the $100 million club, four failed to match their budgets with their domestic takes alone: Quantum of Solace ($164.3 million gross; $200 million budget); The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ($141.6 million gross; $200 million budget); The Incredible Hulk ($134.3 million gross; $150 million budget); and, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ($102.3 million gross; $145 million budget). • Prince Capsian. "That one looked like a guaranteed $200 million-plus superhit, with a real chance of surpassing $300 million," Box Office Guru's Gitesh Pandya said in an email. Instead, it might have cost the Narnia trilogy its third leg. • The X-Files. Fox revived the franchise with a can't-lose $30 million investment only to lose when I Want to to Believe couldn't crack even $21 million. • 10,000 B.C. ($94.8 million), The Spiderwick Chronicles ($71.2 million), Hellboy II: The Golden Army ($75.8 million) and Mike Myers' The Love Guru ($32.2 million) and every other underperformer.

Here's a look of the top-grossing films of 2008 through Sunday based on numbers compiled by Box Office Mojo:

• The Dark Knight, $530.8 million • Iron Man, $318.3 million • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, $317 million • Hancock, $227.9 million • WALL-E, $223.8 million • Kung Fu Panda, $215.4 million • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $174.9 million • Twilight, $167.3 million • Quantum of Solace, $164.3 million • Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, $154.5 million (Originally published Dec. 29, 2008 at 1:35 p.m. PT)"

I enjoyed Twilight all the guys I know think its a "chick flick" its not.

[jessekellum]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

Went into F.Y.E. (horrible store by the way) yesterday and i saw they had Twilight merchandise. Posters, shirts, figures, everything. It's officially ridiculous now.

i no FYE is absolutely overpriced and the store sucks but thats the online place in my town to buy good posters which are overpriced to and ya i watched a little bit of it and thought it was retarded and left if i want to see a real vampire movie i would watch the original dracula or 30 days of night. those were good movies. im not rlly interested in a love story when i go see a vampire movie im looking 4 some chaos and scary bloodsucking scenes not some dumbass chick that falls in love with a vampire

[blu-mike]

you know when TDK came out there was a line but when twilight came out there was a even bigger line. so idk why guys hate it its a not a chick flick.

[fighthefutureofhd]

i'll never understand the thought process behind thinking f.y.e. is absolutely overpriced. between it and another store in town i get amazing deals all the time. i haven't gone into a f.y.e to find anything but good prices. prices that are just as good if not better than tower records. now that says a lot. i used to think that f.y.e. was another one of those overpriced mall record stores ala sam goody's. but i found out quickly how wrong i was. sam goody's was overpriced, but more towards the end there before they closed. i do miss mall record shops even if they were a little on the high side.

[cflames89]

Originally Posted by caliminius

To a certain extent, The Dark Knight's box office take was a fluke. Maybe nobody want to hear it, but TDK was helped greatly by Heath Ledger's death. What percentage do you think went to see it because it was last film and not because it was the new Batman movie?

When it comes to making a sequel, which do you think a studio is more likely to invest in? A movie that grosses nearly 5 times its production costs (Twilight) or one that cost 5 times as much to make and grossed less than 3 times its production costs even with numbers that were artificially inflated by tragedy (TDK)?

Clearly a studio is going to invest in a Batman movie just off of the hopes that it will beat the Titanic.