Tron Legacy: Predict the Gross

Well, numbers are in. TRON Legacy came in at $43.6 million. That's not counting the overseas numbers, either, which were around $23 million.

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I saw the original at the movies and liked it I know it isn't great but i like it

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Well, that's a fail for TRON then.

It came out on top, but it was a week of poor performers. Only word of mouth can save it, at this point.

Yeah, I'm sure it'll make money when all's said and done, but I don't think it's gonna be the hit they were hoping for. There were tons of ads for this thing.

This is doing terrible, and for once it's not necessarily because of ticket prices

And just a budget update, it cost $170 million but they spent another $100 million in ads alone, so if they want to make up $270 million, they better inject marijuana into the theaters

Well, it'll make probably half that domestically, and a fair bit overseas. And then there's DVD and Blu-Ray rentals and sales. It's not hard to make money on these kinds of films. But it might take awhile.

It's definitely not the Avatar of 2010.

That's a bit disappointing. I doubt it will have legs though.

Two disappointing film debuts in a row.

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The second being Chronicles of Naria.

I think it MAY have performed better if the DVD of the original had been available to refresh people's memories. I remember enjoying the original, but I don't remember much about since I haven't seen it in over 20 years.

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Thanks for that. As you know, I was wondering. TBF though, that really failed the last time around, didn't it? I mean, that's what it was dropped and 20th picked it up.

I disagree for the reason I stated on the previous page. I can't think of anything more likely to put people off than seeing the previous effort.

It's early days, but so far, in terms of ratio, it's going pretty much as I thought it would. That is, the US is making 2/3's of the gross.

I can't see this film performing greatly, just ok. The original back in 82 came out during the birth of personal computing. There was great curiosity and interest in the subject matter (Wargames came out 1 year later). Nowadays, PCs are taken for granted--heck, everyone's cell phone now has more computing power than the first home computer. I think the interest in the movie is limited to nostalgia and 3D CGI cool factor.

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I went for the movie with 6 colleagues who had never heard of the original.
& most of the youngsters haven't heard of the original either...
Few might be aware of the videogame Tron 2.0..

I don't think it's getting interest coz of nostalgia. maybe 1/10th of the interest might be cos of nostalgia.. that's it.

& the only reason the original Tron didn't do all that great because most of them found the "trapped in a digital world" concept rather silly, the concept has a better chance of working now..

I think overall Tron will Gross around 400-450 million.

we all knew Narnia 3 wasnt going to be the big xmas hit.

We all knew that Narnia 2 wouldn't be big, either. I really liked The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, but that's part of the problem. Everyone loves that first one but, with the possible exception of the books, the following stories never do anything like as well in another format. Plays, tv adaptations, etc, the audiences are always bigger for TL,TW&TW than the others.

At the pace it is on right now, it will take quite a while to reach that amount.

Yeah, it'll end up in the mid-$100 millions domestically.

It's actually making a little more overseas than I thought it would. It might get past the $220m I thought.