Box Office: Episode VIII's Finacial Performance Discussion

Im saying that it will make a lot of money. Easily will make $1 billion USD in the box office. I think with some promising results with TFA, we can expect it to get up past $1.5 billion, but the $2 billion mark might not happen. However, the Disney marketing machine is strong. With many future years of Star Wars to come, expect films such as Episode VIII and IX to really push hard on marketing and deliver. Episode IX in 2019 may give us the world's highest grossing trilogy ending for Star Wars ever kind of capping the end to a sequel trilogy that binds the first nine films to a close until an Episode X-XII happens in the years post ST.

 

I think that it will make $1,759,597,309.11 WW .

 

I'm actually really interested to see R1's box office and how it relates to VIII's. But for now I'd put my money at somewhere a little bit north of 1.5 billion.

 

R1's performance wouldn't relate to VIII as the spin offs are being kept as separate entities from the main movies so your best bet would be to compare the Han Solo movie's performance to R1's .

 

I think though that it would at least be a measure to see how much people actually care about Star Wars as an entity, as opposed to just the main film series.
Especially since (unlike Han Solo), Rogue One will pretty much have to be sold to people literally as just STAR WARS. No popular characters (that are a major focus at least), no Jedi, no Force, just Star Wars.
I'm just curious how they'll line up. I mean I doubt that if R1 (somehow) tanks, it'd impact VIII, but I'd say that the inverse *might* happen.

 

I think everyone who is a general Star Wars fan or moviegoer will still go see Rogue One if it looks like it will be anywhere even close to the level of detail that VII gave us. It will bring back a lot of nostalgia to fans of the OT and the PT too, so it's a win win for R1.

 

What do you mean by the inverse ?

 

I think that VIII will have a bigger box office because of the return of Luke, and the cliff hanger at the end of VII! What happens next?!
Also, it depends on the advertising of VIII, but the hype will definitely not be as big as VII.

 

I think the reason that TFA has done so well is because of the hype (and maybe a little marketing)

 

I mean that if R1 does gangbusters numbers, it would be a very good sign for VIII's box office, but I wouldn't take a poor performance from R1 as a bad sign.

 

I think that the reason as to why R1 will be successful is because of the hype which isn't as high as TFA but it is nonetheless there .

 

It might make more. What's going to help it is that it'll be the follow up to a movie that people generally really liked, whereas Episode VIIwas following up the prequels. Plus now that Avatar's moved it doesn't look like much competition inDecember again...

 

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The OT & PT had the same box office order for their movies:

1. ANH & TPM

2. ROTJ & ROTS

3. ESB & AOTC

I expect the same result for this Trilogy. I don't think Episode 8 makes as much as TFA as there are few old timer casual fans I knew who wanted to see Han Solo again.

 

I think it'll have a very strong BO but won't match or surpass TFA. TFA is the 3rd highest grossing film ever and 1st domestically. That'll be very difficult to beat. BUT I've been wrong a lot in life, so there's always that.

 

There will be movies that will be released that will easily surpass TFA. ..that's just how movies work, like how Toy Story 3 somehow became PIXAR's #1 grossing movie EVER and in the top 10 movies of all time back in 2010 with over $1BILLION, there will most likely be a movie(s) this year hat will surpass TFA and then next year there will be a movie(s) that will surpass those movies and then VIII will be released and then it could surpass those other movies but as usual it's all about the way the movie goers habits work .

 

I don't know about all that. I mean sure there will always be a bigger movie, it's inevitable but I don't know how soon that'll be. Maybe you're right and this year some movie will blow past TFA but I don't see it.

 

Well I wouldn't say "blow past" necessarily but it would be incremental if it happens ...

 

I hate to say it but I could see the next Avatar getting close to TFA only because audiences (mainly overseas) wanting to see how/if Cameron pushed the envelop with the technology he used in the first one. That movie crushed it overseas and I could see it well received again.