BOX OFFICE: OBLIVION Grosses $1.1 Million In Thursday Late Night Showings

@nibs,

The Hobbit and Skyfall only come to mind.

I liked it. Great visuals, sound acting and a decent story. I went with moderately low expectations and it exceeded those. I saw it on a regular screen and thought it was very good cinematography. I imagine it would be pretty sweet on Imax.

the reviews so far have been good...Im going to give it shot. Say whatever you want about Tom Cruise...but the dude always brings his A game to all of his roles.

very good film one of the best i've seen this year.

@Nibs - Are you serious? Good Lord, I hate when people make idiotic comments like that. I understand that this is a comic book website, so the members are going to be a little partial to the that genre....but I cant believe the ignorance that comes from this site sometimes.

Here's a list of the top ten highest grossing films of each year for the past 4 years. Out of 40 movies....only 5 movies on the entire list are comic books. THAT is why the studios pump money into movies like Oblivion....because sci-fi/fantasy make up the majority of their sales....not comic books.

2009
1. Avatar
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
5. Up
6. The Hangover
7. Star Trek
8. The Blind Side
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks
10. Sherlock Holmes

(X-Men Origins: Wolverine didn't make it to the list)


2010
1. Toy Story 3
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Iron Man 2
4. Twilight Saga: Eclipse
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
6. Inception
7. Despicable Me
8. Shrek Forever After
9. How to train your dragon
10. Tangled


2011
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
2. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
3. Twilight Saga (crap, yes, but still not comic related)
4. The Hangover Part II
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
6. Fast Five
7. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
8. Cars 2
9. Sherlock Holmes: A game of shadows
10. Thor

(Captain America, Green Lantern and X-Men: First Class didn't even make it to the top 10)


2012
1. The Avengers
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. The Hunger Games
4. Skyfall
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
6. Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2
7. The Amazing Spiderman
8. Brave
9. Ted
10. Madagascar 3

@nibs - Pouring huge budgets? Define huge? The movie cost $120 million to produce and stands a more than decent chance of making anything above $250 million worldwide in the first few weeks on a 90/10 ticket split in favour of the studio.

It's not a simple case of the theatres taking half the box office, it's a ticket split that favours the studios at the initial release and eventually splits in favour of the cinemas the longer the movie plays in theaters i.e after 6 or 7 weeks. Since most box office is done in the intial few weeks, the studios always get about 70% of a movies overall takings. And the average a film like Oblivion will use for marketing will be about $50 million.

Movies like this? What Scifi? Well yeah, practically all the biggest movies of the last 20 years have been scifi or fantasy so I guess the answer to if any movies like this make any profit outside of comic ones is a fat resounding YES!

The question is do you ever take notice of successful movies other than comic ones, if so then you'd have heard of these..

Avatar $2.7 Billion Dollars
Titanic $2.1 Billion Dollars
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows p1 $1.3 Billion Dollars
Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest $1 Billion Dollars
Alice in Wonderland $1Billion Dollars.
Toy Story 3 $1 Billion Dollars.

And the list goes on, Lord of the Rings, The Lion King, Jurassic Park, Ice Age, Shrek etc

Even if you're just counting SciFi there's..

Avatar, The Matrix, 2012, E.T, Independence Day, Inception, The Hunger Games, Star Wars, War of The Worlds, I Am Legend, Terminator 2, Rise of the Planet of the Apes..

Kinda a lot I guess, that's why studio's pour money into movies like that.

Very good movie. Reuses a lot of plots and twists from other films but still manages to have a heart of its own. Visually this director who also brought us the mesmerizing Tron Legacy is in my top 5 visual creators if not my top 3. Tom Cruise is ever the likeable hero and Olga Krokenko.....Olga krokenyo....Olga damn you are impossibly beautiful whatever your name is. All in all a very enjoyable science fiction film that fans of the genre will be left satisfied by.

I thought it was worse but in fact the movie was really enjoyable,not bad at all.

My vote 7/10.