JohnnyGossamer

Yeah... I know you didn't mean this but I wanted to say cheers to all wonderful moms and dads out there and on this forum. Parents are wonderful by and large. Impressive humans. They're better than me. When my dad really wanted to see a movie, he'd write us all sick note so we'd blow off school and we'd go to a weekday matinee. This was wonderful. Anaconda was one of those events when I was just little pup. There were many others. It was great.

Definitely...

Man... This thread serves as happy reminder of why I haven't and never plan to have kids. What's that Marc Maron joke... "You know, you didn't have to those..." I see whatever, whenever and do whatever, whenever and it's glorious. Incredibly selfish but glorious nonetheless.

Personally, I only prefer Ghost Protocol to it. I liked it better than Rogue Nation and Fallout. Has much more of a sense of fun. That and Atwell boosted it over Rogue and Fallout... At least for me.

Seems like TLM all over again in Asia.

All of his movies lean into Western style or Hollywood stye. It's part of why he's so popular in the states and other Korean directors aren't as popular in the states... Only one that maybe isn't is Barking Dogs Never Bite. Maybe. Kinda is too though. He's been a name stateside since The Host in got a decent release stateside in 2007.

I don't trust Netflix to give anything a long, wide release. Apple, Amazon, etc. have already done this even before AIR and Flower Moon. Netflix, other than their silly, annoyingly short experiment with Glass Onion, has not. That Irishman release was a complete joke years ago.

Cuaron had done a Potter though (the best one) and Gravity is heavy, heavy theatrical experience. That was a must in IMAX when it came out. Maybe Mickey is like that? Who knows? I also have some skepticism because as Bong fan since I watched Memories of Murder (I vividly remember that Netflix DVD rental coming in the mail haha) because The Host trailer looked cool to me, his non Korean stuff is easily his worst for me (Snowpiercer/Okja). Still very good but not nearly as memorable as his other stuff. So I expect Mickey to be very good but maybe not great.

I don't see Mickey 17 coming remotely close to any of those. Bong doesn't have a big enough audience for that. There's definitely a ceiling to his stuff. I'm referring to DOM. Maybe it's a big deal OS though?

is Netflix giving Narnia a wide, extended release in theaters? If so, I guess I'm slightly prone to agree with you. Was hoping she'd do the Nolan, Peele or whoever thing and do some huge budget OP. I'm sure she still will after Narnia though. But, seeing her do Narnia, Polley on Bambi and Barry Jenkins on Mufasa is pretty deflating for me... Makes me dread Bong or Peele or Ducournau or whoever doing the same. I hope they don't unless it's a super passion project thing or their own OP with a juicy budget.

Maybe if it hadn't been a dozen+ years since Nolan released a superhero anything I'd agree. Lots of stuff has out opened and outgrossed his movies since his Batman trilogy though. They're done great for original projects don't get me wrong but still...

Yeah... That was like what... The 4th or 5th Little Women movie. It's good. It's another Little Women movie though. I'd like to see her do an original project with a bigger budget. But, given her recent ones are honestly pretty huge IPs like Little Women, Barbie and Narnia, maybe it's just not her thing? Speaking of Gerwig, I saw a movie on TCM a few weeks ago called Girlfriends. Somehow had never seen it. Awesome little movie from late 70s/early 80s. I imagine it had a huge positive influence on her when she saw it I assume long ago. I couldn't stop thinking about her early films while I watched it.

I'd pop Cat in the Hat, Speed Racer and the Frank Oz Stepford Wives in there too. Too many other examples to list that I'm forgetting. By the way, unrelated to your post, but can't believe Gerwig is doing a Narnia flick for Netflix next. Heck, maybe it's the best fantasy movie in a long time but ugh. Just for me, that's an incredibly boring choice especially when she has all this cred. She'll never have more cred than she has now. She can do literally whatever she wants. Now, can we get Julia Ducournau on the next Barbie movie? Trick question, she already made her Barbie movie and it's called Titane.

No Monday numbers from Charlie or Voldie just yet?

I'm not sure about MI6 as it wasn't DOM juggernaut but did well. Certainly doesn't have the repeat viewing factor of TGM but few films do. Doesn't it still have the best legs easily for 100M+ DOM opener in a long, long, long, long while. MI6 absolutely and Mario and even TGM would've been hurt a bit by something like Oppenheimer and Barbie opening within 10 days of their OD. This will be possibly the biggest admissions weekend DOM since theaters reopened during the pandemic. Would essentially impact just about anything. No shame in that.

I wouldn't quite compare MI7 with D&D... But, seems like something ERC would do so not surprised.

Shouldn't TLM be at 296M+ after next weekend? Not sure it hit's 300M but think the second number you gave is more likley.

Is next weekend locked to be highest admissions in a single weekend DOM post pandemic? Higher than No Way Home's OW and Super Mario's OW? I think those are the two highest weekends (including other releases).

Could this bode well for Haunted Mansion? Only half kidding here...

It's a more backloaded franchise DOM and it's doing considerably better than Indy 5 OS will make potentially double Indy 5 WW when all's said and done. So... No. Not really.

No. Ceiling is likely something like 160M.... Maybe, maybe 170M. Even still, if it flirts with or goes over 500M+ WW I can't see it not being painted as a success as that's the breakeven. Everything else (given word or mouth there should be a lot of everything else) that comes after is gravy.

Elemental is not a success or even worthwhile story DOM unless it hits the @MovieMan89 multi and gets to 200M+ DOM.

MI is extremely likely to make considerably more than both WW though, no?

As others mentioned, SoF makes up for MI7 opening a bit softer than expected DOM. Holdovers seem pretty impressive DOM too especially AtSV and Elemental. Not a bad weekend at the box office DOM at all. Next weekend and the weekend after that and the weekend after that should all be very, very strong with Oppenheimer, Barbie, Haunted Mansion, Mutant Mayhem and Meg 2.