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Christopher Duvall
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 500
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 08-24-2001 05:30 AM

I wish I could pick a winner in this but alas, I will not. I think both flicks will do some monster (pardon the pun) business and just rape us all at the box office. I am just glad that they are both a couple of weeks apart. Far as I am concerned, I am just going to sit back and enjoy the business and give my box employees some KY jelly to make it through opening weekend on both titles.

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Jonathan Haglund
Film Handler

Posts: 81
From: Irvine, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 08-25-2001 03:46 AM

Harry Potter will do more business. Its age range is 8-70 (approx) and is wildly anticipated. Not an Oscar contender, mind you, but people want to see their imaginations put on the big screen. Monsters may do better if it has the same adult reaching humor that made Shrek so funny and gave it good repeat business. If it is just a kids movie, their facination will pass just as fast as their attention span.

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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 08-25-2001 04:53 AM

Here are my predictions on total grosses..

LOTR - $685 million worldwide

Monsters inc. - $365 million worldwide

Harry Potter - $420 million worldwide

Ice Age - $225 million worldwide

Matrix 2 - $360 million worldwide

ET special edition - $750 million worldwide

Star Wars 2 - $1.3 billion worldwide

Harry potter is not like pokemon where the parents suffer from brain embolisms by halftime. More than 40 million copies of the latest book have been SOLD worldwide. If you take 40 million people who own the book, and then double that for those that will see it as a guest of someone who owns the book, you get 80 million people who will see it once, 40 million who will see it twice, 20 million who will see it three times, for a total of 140 million attendees, worldwide average is 5 dollars (adjusted for different economies.... ) you get 700 million dollars or so....

harry potter isnt just a built in fan base, its almost religeon. even I want to see the film. And I hate that book.

Dave

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

Posts: 3250
From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 08-25-2001 10:04 AM

I don't believe that E.T. special edition will make that much money world wide. The matrix: reloaded has been delayed until spring 2003.
Ice Age could be a surprise hit but is does come out in march of 2002.
As far as Monsters and Harry. It could be a dead heat race by the end of the run. With harry potter slightly in the lead. There are a lot of good quality films coming out for the holidays so we will see what happens.

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