Star Wars-Revenge of the Sith: record breaker

[Dr Mordrid]

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith closed Thursday with $50,013,859.00 from an estimated 9,400 screens at 3,661 theaters. That's the biggest day ever for a single movie in history. This eclipses the previous one-day record of $44,800,000.00 posted by Shrek 2.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/20/leisure.starwars.reut/index.html

Wow....

Dr. Mordrid

[Jon P. Inghram]

No accounting for taste I guess.

[schmosef]

Those damned internet pirates are robing us blind!

They ruined this premiere.

Lucas might have to wait a week before he can afford to buy that private island.

[Dr Mordrid]

R2D2 - Hero of the Republic

(at least to the Detroit News writers):

http://www.detnews.com/2005/screens/0505/20/D01-187718.htm

Gotta admit that the little 'bot always manages to pull someones buns out of the fire throughout the series....

Dr. Mordrid

[KvHagedorn]

Those damned internet pirates are robing us blind!

They ruined this premiere.

Lucas might have to wait a week before he can afford to buy that private island.

ROFLMAO

[Lizzard[MPE]]

i feel so much closure since ive seen the movie now

[Dr Mordrid]

A real Oprah moment, 'eh?

Dr. Mordrid

[RichL]

On a whim, I fired up Kazaa and did a search for "Revenge of the Sith".

I'll be dammned if I didnt get about 5000 responses from people with 700Mb+ files titled Revenge of the Sith - and most of these from people who are sharing 20+ different versions of the same file!
I'm tempted to send some of these guys messages warning them, 'cos if the MPAA see them they're in lawsuit city...

[xortam]

... I'm tempted to send some of these guys messages warning them, 'cos if the MPAA see them they're in lawsuit city...

I wonder how many of them are the MPAA.

[Jammrock]

Early weekend estimates put the weekend gross at $108.5 million. Making the 4-day total around $158.5 million. Official numbers won't be released until Monday. Just a few million shy from pwn1ng all the movie opening records (Spiderman II made $115 million on it's opening weekend, RotS has all the rest).

[RichL]

I wonder how many of them are the MPAA.

That was my point.
I'm sure 99.99% of the ROTS files posted are bogus from the movie studio just to swamp out any real copies that appear.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

i think i might go see this movie again. tomorrow morning so it will be cheaper

[schmosef]

anyone still using Kazaa deserves what they get.

[Dr Mordrid]

Update: 158.5 million in 4 days...another record;

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050522/ap_en_mo/box_office_4

Dr. Mordrid

[EnglandJoe]

I've seen this movie once, and now that Barclays have granted me some more money I might go see it a few times more. I actually don't think it's that great of a movie, but I love lightsaber battles! I'm gonna start playing Jedi Academy again I think