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From Forbes ; The Gatsby box office news states that Gatsby is now Luhrmann's best worldwide box office film :clap:

Better news for Warner Bros. is that The Great Gatsby earned another $6.2 million for a $128.26 million domestic cume, having just passed the $211 million worldwide cume of Australia.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/06/02/weekend-box-office-will-smiths-after-earth-opens-soft-now-you-see-me-surprises/

Thanks,also, to everyone for all the new pix and news :flower:

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They are already showing some Gatsby tv spots here in Brazil!! :woohoo:

They barely know I had seen them all... :p Finally I will have the opportunity to watch this movie. :yes:

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Better news for Warner Bros. is that The Great Gatsby earned another $6.2 million for a $128.26 million domestic cume, having just passed the $211 million worldwide cume of Australia.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/06/02/weekend-box-office-will-smiths-after-earth-opens-soft-now-you-see-me-surprises/

Thanks,also, to everyone for all the new pix and news :flower:

Thanks for the BO update Oxford :flower:

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Funny tweet about Leo as to what one of the French Open announcer's said when the camera showed him :p

andrea ahumada☼ ‏@AndreaAhumadaa 2h

lolol leonardo dicaprio was at the french open and the anouncer said "how great the great gatsby came"

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Even better Gatsby box office news from Rantrak the official worldwide box office site

There total is even higher than earlier stated !!! :clap: :clap:

Great Gatsby : Worldwide Total as of 6/2/13: $248,255,892 International Total: $120,000,000 Domestic Total: $128,255,892 Open : in 56 countries

Warner Bros. also saw a strong holdover performance from "The Great Gatsby," which brought in roughly $23 million from 55 territories to raise its international total to $120 million and its worldwide gross to $248 million after four weeks.

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/hangover-iii-laughs-way-82m-overseas-box-office-94886

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New York Times article about the Great Gatsby box office

They now estimate that Gatsby will make $330 million worldwide :clap:

Defying Naysayers, ‘Great Gatsby’ Proves a Box-Office Winner

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LOS ANGELES — “If history is any indication,” a Forbes report read on May 3, “ ‘The Great Gatsby’ will bomb rather hard.” BoxOffice.com at one point projected very soft opening-weekend sales of about $24 million. Early on, several studios were so worried about the movie’s multiplex prospects that they passed on making it.

Oops.

“The Great Gatsby,” directed by Baz Luhrmann, has become the latest example of the Hollywood machinery getting audience interest wrong. “Gatsby,” adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, is now expected to take in at least $330 million worldwide.

With that kind of box-office success, the movie should be able to generate an additional $200 million or so from ancillary sources like DVD sales and reruns on cable channels over the coming years, according to studio executives.

Profitability is another matter entirely, affected by unknown factors, including how compensation for Mr. DiCaprio and Mr. Luhrmann was structured. The movie was also very expensive to make; executives who worked on “The Great Gatsby” contend it cost about $105 million after heftier-than-normal rebates from filming in Australia. Global marketing costs, after factoring in partnerships, ran about $90 million. (Some insiders say those costs were substantially higher, however.)

Is it surprising that “The Great Gatsby” has succeeded? Apparently not to a lot of movie fans. Who would bet against Mr. DiCaprio in a flashy retelling of one of literature’s best-known stories?

The truth is that a lot of people did. Village Roadshow, a film financier and production company, showed interest early on, agreeing to collaborate with Sony to make the film. But Sony, which had a flop with “How Do You Know” around the time “The Great Gatsby” was getting under way, decided Mr. Luhrmann’s film was too risky.

According to members of Mr. Luhrmann’s management team, the director then approached other studios but got one no after another: too expensive; mainstream audiences would not be interested; his last movie, “Australia,” was a disappointment.

Warner, in partnership with Village Roadshow, finally said yes, but only after Warner’s president of production, Greg Silverman, became an avid supporter of the project.

So, with the money now rolling in, is Mr. Luhrmann’s camp playing the “told you so” game? In true Hollywood fashion, it is gloating in private while trying — successfully, apparently — to get the word of its vindication out there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/media/defying-naysayers-great-gatsby-proves-a-box-office-winner.html?_r=0

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