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To be fair, 2023 was ahead for every (or almost every) week before that.

I want every movie to be good and do well. I take no pleasure in bombs.

Actually it was movies like MIGP, Rock of Ages, Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow that rehabilitated Tom Cruise, for me anyway. Compared to how I viewed him in the mid-late 2000s.

Fault in our Stars did not destroy Edge of Tomorrow, come on.

That would be pretty good IMO.

It's interesting you bring up Nope as a movie to be emulated. I'm sort of out of the loop with DOM box office, I've been following basically just what's happening in Australia since the pandemic, and in Australia Nope did pretty mediocre business tbh. Compare how the following films did: AUS vs DOM Nope 4.96m vs 123.28m DC League of Super-Pets 18.67m vs 93.66m Ticket to Paradise 16.17m vs 68.2 Using the 10x multi rule for box office in Australia, it's like if Nope made less than 50m vs 180m and 161m for the other two respectively. America and Australia are in many ways similar countries, so what accounts for this wild variance in taste for these movies? Animated films are clearly doing much better in Australia and star power matters more, but why?

I'd be wary about using Shrek 2 as a comp tbh, that was a basically unique run. Remember when Kung Fu Panda 2 disappointed on it's OD and then only kept disappointing over the rest of its run? Shrek 2 was specifically brought up in that case because it was a Dreamworks sequel to a popular first film, and IIRC there were similar release date shenanigans that were likely to confuse irregular cinemagoers. Not to say this is how it will turn out though, I agree with wait and see.

Mission Impossible box office history in Australia, for comparison's sake: MI $15,032,277 MI2 $22,478,321 MI3 $11,064,351 MIGP $17,608,398 MIRN $16,115,723 MIF $19,457,857

There should be a rule that if a movie goes into general release on any day between Thursday and Friday, that this counts as the opening weekend and, should be reported.

I don’t really want it to be “better than unwatchable” or critic proof, I want this movie to be awesome, and walk out loving it!

Any word on how it might’ve done?

🙄 Hope we don’t go down the UK route and this becomes a regular thing lol

Why is Mission Impossible releasing on Saturday? Why not release it on Thursday?

What is going on at Box Office Mojo? This happened last week too, they overreported TLM's Friday.

I'm still gonna watch it.

Is this true or bullshit?

What is the material difference between A and A-?

Actually I think Clifford might be in there somewhere also.

Here is my best guess of what the actual top 50 looks like, bolding the movies that they forgot. Were there any others that I missed? 1 Top Gun: Maverick Paramount 26/05/22 93,089,155 2 Avatar: The Way of Water Walt Disney 15/12/22 48,968,208 3 Thor: Love and Thunder Walt Disney 06/07/22 44,469,125 4 Minions: The Rise of Gru Universal 23/06/22 43,592,964 5 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Walt Disney 05/05/22 38,311,965 6 The Batman Warner Bros. 03/03/22 38,260,468 7 Jurassic World: Dominion Universal 09/06/22 35,792,027 8 Elvis Warner Bros. 23/06/22 33,486,309 9 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Walt Disney 10/11/22 29,093,311 10 Spider-Man: No Way Home Sony 16/12/21 26,478,185 11 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Paramount 31/03/22 22,720,560 12 Black Adam Warner Bros. 20/10/22 18,923,824 13 DC League of Super-Pets Warner Bros. 15/09/22 18,666,213 14 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Warner Bros. 07/04/22 18,537,048 15 Uncharted Sony 17/02/22 18,393,194 16 The Bad Guys Universal 31/03/22 16,177,061 17 Ticket to Paradise Universal 15/09/22 16,167,626 18 The Lost City Paramount 14/04/22 15,801,310 19 Sing 2 Universal 26/12/21 13,897,383 20 Bullet Train Sony 04/08/22 12,706,198 21 Where the Crawdads Sing Sony 21/07/22 11,537,331 22 Lightyear Walt Disney 16/06/22 11,198,138 23 Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sony 01/01/22 11,048,997 24 House of Gucci Universal 01/01/22 10,074,776 25 Smile Paramount 29/09/22 8,547,400 26 Downton Abbey: A New Era Universal 28/04/22 8,152,448 27 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Universal 27/10/22 7,688,222 28 Don`t Worry Darling Warner Bros. 06/10/22 7,562,889 29 Jackass Forever Paramount 03/02/22 7,084,877 30 Morbius Sony 31/03/22 6,707,375 31 Scream 5 Paramount 13/01/22 6,628,571 32 Death on the Nile Walt Disney 10/02/22 6,500,227 33 Everything Everywhere All at Once Roadshow 14/04/22 6,416,541 34 The Black Phone Universal 21/07/22 5,661,106 35 The King's Man Walt Disney 06/01/22 5,262,678 36 Belfast Universal 03/02/22 5,139,254 37 Nope Universal 11/08/22 4,960,538 38 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Universal 26/12/22 4,720,840 39 The Menu Walt Disney 24/11/22 4,136,668 40 Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank Paramount 22/09/22 4,053,104 41 Dog Roadshow 17/03/22 4,047,595 42 Marry Me Universal 10/02/22 3,834,933 43 Strange World Walt Disney 24/11/22 3,661,534 44 The Northman Universal 21/04/22 3,647,258 45 RRR Tolly Movies 25/03/22 3,598,723 46 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Sony 26/12/22 3,448,354 47 The Duke Transmission 31/03/22 3,317,917 48 King Richard Warner Bros. 13/01/22 3,314,373 49 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Reset Collective / Roadshow 18/08/22 3,249,252 50 Avatar (re-release) Walt Disney 22/09/22 3,213,896

They made a mistake They forgot to include 2021 holdovers like NWH!

Thanks, I guess that’s gonna be final. I have a hard time seeing it still on release for another weekend.

Puts Titanic’s lifetime gross at 65,898,855AUD. Makes it the all time number seven, ahead of TLK 2019 and behind NWH. This is from the original release and 2012 and this year’s reissues. Not sure if it got a release in 2017 here, if it did I don’t remember it.

So it did make it to a million in the end, good to hear 👍

How was Titanic? Didn’t make the top 10, but hopefully it wasn’t too far out.

Just saw the reviews, yikes!