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  1. Wow that's a big bump for Barbie. I guess after the harsher Monday drop that makes sense. Using Lion King as an example since it's late July it made 64m from it's 4th Tuesday. Even at minimum Barbie makes 601m if you add 64m. And Barbie has been holding way better so looking at other examples.... Jurassic World made 87m after it's 4th Tuesday which would put Barbie at 624m. Using Incredibles 2 as an example, it made 96m after it's 4th Tuesday. That puts Barbie at around 633m.
  2. Inception made 62m after it's 4th Monday. Oppenheimer is already 36m ahead of Inception and it's at 266m so even at bare minimum another 60 would put it over 320m. I think Oppenheimer might finish around Joker's number.
  3. Rewatching it the second time it flies by even quicker. I think the only issue I really have with it is the cringy way they had Oppenheimer say "I am death" during the sex scene. Rolled my eyes so hard.
  4. I swear every time I open a weekend thread... Ah yes, another discussion about the Star Wars sequels
  5. Your definition of a perfect world is a Mission Impossible movie makes money?
  6. Enjoyed it. I'd put it a bit behind Spider-verse though TMNT leans way more into being goofy but it has heartfelt and sincere moments. The art style was really cool and the soundtrack is wonderful.
  7. If that 15 million number holds up for Barbie it would be the 11th largest second Monday ever. If you left out the Christmas holidays' second Mondays it would be behind Shrek 2 and TPM (though those had Memorial?) for number 3. TGM did 12.4 million for second Monday.
  8. I assume you mean covered what happened? Since there's articles on it in Guardian, Bloomberg, BBC, Variety, etc
  9. Well there was a ton of it. Just the toys alone and crossover promotions. Clothing. Food. Restaurants. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/29/business/mattel-barbie-boom-retailers-restaurants/index.html The ancillaries however will easily pay for the marketing budget many times over.
  10. Okay the historian in me is unleashed. Side tracked the topic a bit here, but the bomb actually had to be dropped to be believed though. Ironically even after the bombings the Japanese Cabinet was still deadlocked and the Emperor had to personally intervene twice just to get them to actually surrender. The Soviet invasion was the final nail on the coffin. Both events were influential on the decision Japan had been hoping that by negotiating with the Soviets they could have peace without surrendering. The US was aware of all this of course since they already broke the Japanese diplomatic codes awhile back and knew the Japanese weren't considering unconditional surrender. The first atomic bomb was on August 6th (Hiroshima). It was not until a cabinet meeting on August 9th, which was after the Soviet invasion and the Nagasaki atomic bombing, when surrender was fully on the agenda. The Japanese emperor had to personally intervene and ordered the cabinet into surrendering (since there was a deadlock with the war faction). There was even an attempted military coup on August 14th to seize the recording of the emperor's broadcast of the surrender. The Japanese were planning to resist with millions of people and troops in the main islands and the US invasion planners knew it and were scared of the casualties. Invasion of Japan itself could have killed millions. Imagine the casualties of Okinawa and multiply that with all of Japan. That's what was facing US invasion planners and Truman. I get that there's an attempt to portray Japan as helpless in the final months of the war (especially pushed by Japanese revisionist right wingers) but the fact was Japan was ready to fight. The US wasn't even sure of it's own manpower requirements. The book Downfall goes into great detail on how the US divisions for the invasion of the main islands weren't even remotely ready or filled. Oppenheimer isn't even a pro-war movie either, so some of the the Japanese online only crowd's fuss is just that. Unnecessary. I am curious to see how the movie performs there. If it ever gets a release.
  11. Its quite telling none of those Japanese posters have even seen Oppenheimer yet. It's not exactly some super pro-war movie. And we're not even getting into the debate of the atomic bombings themselves. I get those Japanese posters are sensitive about it since they're posting pictures of victims in replies to no doubt gain sympathy, but do they need to be reminded who started the events of the Pacific part of WW2 by invading Manchuria then China? It's not like the US decided to randomly bomb Imperial Japan. Anyways end of the day some very online posters who weren't going to see either movie anyways are going to boycott it isn't really a story. Just some new online faux outrage.
  12. Why are they even bothering replying to those? Those are literally spam bots pushing the T-shirts. They're on every single tweet (or xeet?) that mentions Barbie's box office I noticed.
  13. Copland is wonderful. A very good and different performance from Stallone than what you'd usually expect when you hear he plays a cop.
  14. Nice, so the 29m held up. 32m for Saturday seems a bit low to me seeing that's only a 10% increase, maybe walk ups will show up later.
  15. I still do, but this summer I've been busy with something streaming service related and the strike has affected another thing I was working on. Only movie I've seen lately was an early test screening of The Creator.
  16. Barbie with 29 million is like a 38% increase. TDK did 41%. If Barbie basically follows TDK a bit less this weekend even with a conservative predict. Sunday might turn out flatter like last weekend though. Friday: 29 million Saturday: 34 million (+18%) TDK did 21% Sunday: 28 million (-17%) TDK did -16% 91 million-ish would be a 43% drop.
  17. I think some people are really hoping for 100m/50m for Barbenheimer. Anyways it's way too early to say definitively what will happen.
  18. 27m would give Barbie a 27% increase from 21.2m while Oppenheimer 30% with 13m. Maybe walk ups will be stronger? Oppenheimer might get softer increase because of the PLF and IMAX screens.
  19. Just realized Barbie and Oppenheimer for their second weekend will beat this projection from a month ago lol. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/barbie-box-office-tracking-oppenheimer-1235526172/ Barbenheimer: ‘Barbie’ Tracking for Beatific $70M- $80M Opening, Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Targets $40M
  20. I've always been under the assumption Deadline basically shills for the industry so they lowball to make studios look better.
  21. I still remember people suggesting Barbie might be frontloaded because of the saturday number in the weekend thread. Maybe they meant frontloaded all summer?
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