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Mall of Georgia added a 3:20am screening for Oppy Saturday “night”

[Weekday numbers July 24-27]

10 minutes ago, M37 said:

It was also the first hero film post-9/11, taking place in NYC (the original teaser had Spidey catching a helicopter in a web between the twin towers), and to this day I’m convinced that connection played a big role it’s OW and overall run 

For my persuasive arguments class in college I did an entire paper based on the correlation between 9/11 and the super hero movie blow-up. I made an A and convinced pretty much my entire class it was a big factor.

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2 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

Just enjoy the stronger legs. Spidey 1 in 2002 was similar. Very restricted on opening weekend (moreso than Barbie) and ended up with some pretty awesome legs by superhero genre standards. I much prefer the huge opening with great legs instead of a maxed out weekend and shitty legs. 

Spider-Man 1 in 2002 is still the most impressive opening weekend to me. Adjusted for inflation it’s $208m without any IMAX, 3D, or premium at all. It did all this on “only” like 7000 (I think) screens. That adjusts to nearly $30k a screen! I don’t know the exact screen count Endgame had in the states, but I highly doubt it tops Spidey’s per-screen attendance. 

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6 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

Barbie passing Mario for #1 of the year? Gamers oppressed by females yet again.  

#barbiegate

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3 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Yeah, it’s the admissions record that is holding pretty much forever unless if/when there is ever a seismic shift again in people wanting to flock to movie theaters. 

Even if there is a huge shift back to theaters and we get attendance levels from a decade ago back, getting something to Endgame admissions for opening weekend would be insanely difficult. The only thing I can think of that could even feasibly do this is if James Gunn’s new DC universe is as successful as it possibly could be. And even that would take a while. 

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Smokey and the Bandit and Star Wars came out on the same day (basically) in 1977… two highest grossing movies of that year.

 

I know releases were carried out different, but still!

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5 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

We can ignore Interstellar. So far it has been tracking very similar to Inception in daily percentages. Probably won’t match Inception’s crazy weekend number of 32%, but I would be glad if it can land around 42%. That’s better than Dunkirk, TDK, and TDKR. 

I’m hoping for a sub-40% but realistically 40-45% would be good and basically lock in $300m, or at least close to it. Inception would be a tough one regardless but especially because even if Saturday and Sunday match it, Oppy’s Friday will lose to Inception based on last weeks previews being factored in.

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7 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

$12M is a hell of a lot better for Oppy. That means Tuesday is around 45% of Saturday. Very similar to Inception. Great 👍👍

Oppenheimer’s second weekend if it follows other Nolan films

 

TDK: $39.1m (-52.5%)

Inception: $56m (-32%)

TDKR: $31.8m (-61.4%)

Interstellar: $49.1m (-40.4%)

Dunkirk: $43.4m (-47.3%)

 

Interstellar probably should have been excluded since it was a totally different time of year, and I didn’t bother with Tenet or anything pre-TDK.

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$37m combined Tuesday! Can we keep Barbenheimer over $30m through Thursday?

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Barbie $200m today and Oppenheimer $100m. Bigger dip for the latter, but I agree with the sentiment it’s going to be a weekend movie. 

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Endgame was probably on a record number of screens as well. Over 4,600 theaters, I’d imagine at least 20,000 screens domestically. It’s $357m number isn’t as impossible to imagine when you factor in the screen count. TDK was on like 9,000 or so and Spider-Man 3 around 10-11,000. Add on the development of premium screens, IMAX, and 3D.

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11 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

All movies have better hold from Sunday as compared to last Monday. Is spillover effect not just on Barbieheimer?

 

1	(1)	Barbie	Warner Bros.	$26,105,167	-40%		4,243	$6,153	$188,127,211	4
2	(2)	Oppenheimer	Universal	$12,671,950	-45%		3,610	$3,510	$95,127,370	4
3	(3)	Sound of Freedom	Angel Studios	$3,168,715	-53%	-36%	3,285	$965	$127,602,227	21
4	(4)	Mission: Impossible Dead …	Paramount Pi…	$2,374,770	-60%	-55%	4,321	$550	$120,982,750	13
5	(6)	Insidious: The Red Door	Sony Pictures	$1,003,467	-49%	-41%	2,554	$393	$72,140,350	18
6	(5)	Indiana Jones and the Dia…	Walt Disney	$961,273	-54%	-37%	2,885	$333	$159,958,636	25
7	(7)	Elemental	Walt Disney	$949,136	-45%	-24%	2,720	$349	$138,106,455	39
8	(8)	Spider-Man: Across the Sp…	Sony Pictures	$505,496	-45%	-42%	1,669	$303	$375,783,389	53
9	(9)	Transformers: Rise of the…	Paramount Pi…	$156,579	-57%	-64%	834	$188	$155,820,989	46
10	(10)	No Hard Feelings	Sony Pictures	$133,081	-49%	-69%	1,017	$131	$49,353,792	32
11	(11)	The Little Mermaid	Walt Disney	$126,993	-45%	-64%	620	$205	$296,234,600	60

The second half of July usually has the best weekdays of the summer

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Noticing Mario Bros went up 28% this past weekend. I know it and Oppenheimer share a studio but surely there were no drive in pairings of the two

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$26m for Barbie seems huge. Down only 40% is pretty wild. So much for “female driven films are frontloaded”

 

Oppenheimer beating Inception’s hold is sublime. I imagine it could have taken a shot at TDK’s glorious Monday hold but the long runtime may have caused the latest shows to be a bit weaker, 3 hours is a lot for a Monday night.

 

Hoping for prolonged greatness from these movies. 
 

Barbie is a lock for $400m, hopefully it can clear $500m with ease too. Gonna get crazy and hope Oppenheimer has a shot at $350m. 

 

 

 

 

[Oppenheimer | 2024 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture and Best Director]

38 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

Is banning Hollywood movies really a thing in Japan? The film doesn’t remotely paint the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a positive light. 

I think WW2 is an understandably touchy subject for Japan, but I doubt that’s the entire reason. I think the big thing is it’d probably not make enough to bother releasing.

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-38% for Barbie and -44% for Oppenheimer?????!!!!

 

That’s incredible. Fuck. I hope this is a sign of some legendary runs here.

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Extremely happy both movies went up from estimates. Great openings, great reception, and one of the busiest weekends in years. Can’t wait to continue watching how these two films do the rest of their runs.

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1 hour ago, vale9001 said:

MI now seems like a real flop. 

And wouldn't be surprised if part 2 even makes less.

 

They should really come with something different than tom is 75 years old and he can drive a plane. It's fun the first - second time  then give us something girl....

If so we are in for a hell of a run. If Oppenheimer manages $80m this weekend and has an under 50% drop Monday? I’m calling $300m minimum total domestic 

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5 minutes ago, across the Jat verse said:

Barbie could be 60M ish. Oppy 37 ish.

 
Barbie being really frontloaded is a possibility based on the early Saturday number, but still 60% drop idk. With the glowing word of mouth and IMAX screen sell outs well past next weekend I can’t imagine Oppenheimer dipping 50% either. Even Dark Knight was only a 52% hit

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14 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

It’s around $82M, but also need to adjust for PLF boost that did not exist in the 2010 ticket price. So maybe around $90M weekend in 2023 dollars with the full PLF boost included. 

idk if it’s quite that high. NATO has the national average at $10.53 for 2022, and I get premium formats cost more but surely some of that is taken into consideration for the average?? I’d say maybe $85 million or so, and while Inception didn’t have nearly as many premium screens, it did have a record IMAX count at the time which definitely already boosted it

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Hoping Barbenheimer gets an increase from true Friday today

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If Gerwig follows up Barbie with Netflix Narnia shit that would be really disappointing. She has the vision to get people in theaters, as Barbie is obviously proving.

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Oppenheimer taking a stab at Inception adjusted is wild

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4 minutes ago, excel1 said:

Do people realize how much money Glass Onion would have made with a proper theatrical exclusive release? Ugh. 

Probably the biggest missed opportunity in recent memory. 

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4 minutes ago, Day and Date The Best said:

The future is already here, of probably just 2 or 3 movies performing good every year. Maybe even less as time passes. 

 

7 minutes ago, Day and Date The Best said:

You, Concentrate on Barbie and Oppenheimer and then forget about Box Office for the rest of the year because you will fall on depression when the rest of the movies 2023 even your faves all flop. People go to 1 or 3 movies a year probably these days. 

you are fun at parties, huh?