Sir Tiki

Before we move onto the next thread, I just want to say thank you to the trackers for all the hard work you do here. It's very much appreciated, and all of you are doing a great job. 💓

Mine are: 1. Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3. Thor: Ragnarok 4. Iron Man 5. Avengers: Endgame Haven't seen Guardians 3 yet though.

Yes, in 2000: Fantasia 2000 (January IMAX/June wide), The Tigger Movie (February), Dinosaur (May), and The Emperor's New Groove (December).

I turn 32 tomorrow, and I've been following box office on and off since I was 13 (2004).

Frozen took the top spot in its second (wide) weekend and then retook it in its sixth.

Read the title originally as the Northman conquering both $1.4 million and Mr. Wolf's fine ass.

Horn is also oddly enough the first Disney Studios head since the creation of the label in 1983 to retire of his own accord - Berger, Cook, and Ross were all forced out, while Katzenberg, Hoberman, Schneider, and Roth left to start their own production companies. All but the latter three had openly tumultuous relationships with whoever the CEO at the time was as well.

She was Harry's assistant in the second one.

The Princess and the Frog opened at #1, but that was after two weekends of limited release. To my knowledge, Tarzan in 1999 was the last (purely) hand-drawn animated film to hit #1 on its first weekend. EDIT: I totally forgot about The Simpsons Movie.

Just a post credits scene, no mid-credits.

It's funny, my family and I still refer to end-credits scenes as "jumping monkeys" because of the stinger in The Curse of the Black Pearl (i.e. "Are there any jumping monkeys at the end?", "We have to stay for the jumping monkey.", "How many jumping monkeys are there?", etc.). That was really our introduction to them. I am enjoying Loki so far, and I can't wait to see how it wraps up.

That happened to me twice as well in a North Carolina AMC, my dad and I went to see a matinee showing of Edge of Tomorrow but the showing was cancelled because we were the only two who bought tickets. Same thing a year later with Pan with both my parents. I have no idea what they showed instead. The emptiest showing I ever had at that theater (or any theater) was Victor Frankenstein, which was just me, my parents, and some other guy. I guess four tickets was the number they needed to sell to show films. 🤷‍♂️

Sony has just moved Oh Hell No to that weekend next year.

It really hit me watching this teaser that I have no idea who any of these characters are, which is the first time that I've felt that way about a Marvel movie since Guardians of the Galaxy. I kind of like not knowing. A good teaser that I'm sure looks better on a bigger screen than my phone. I'm looking forward to this one!

So this was a year that I was completely in the dark on. Aside from Infinity War I really didn't follow any box office news, and I remember being surprised upon finding out that Aquaman and Incredibles 2 made a billion like a year after they did so lol. I'm very much looking forward to 2019, thank you @Eric Gardner!

2017 was the year that I kind of stopped coming here (and discussion boards in general) for personal reasons, so it's interesting looking back at the runs of these films and thinking that I wasn't following them from a box office standpoint but from a film goer standpoint. I remember hearing about It and Wonder Woman doing well, as well as The Last Jedi's run, but I had no idea that Beauty and the Beast was #2 or that Thor: Ragnarok was the lowest grossing of the MCU movies that year. Then stuff like Get Out and The Greatest Showman, whose runs I would have loved to follow if I had known. I'm even more removed from 2018 than 2017 when it comes to box office, so I should be getting a big history lesson then. Thank you for the write up!

The amount of work that you put into these is crazy, and very much appreciated. Great write up on a big year that as you said pretty much set us on the stage to where we are today. I'm looking forward to 2017, there were a lot of big movies that I saw in that one.

Great write up, Eric! So this is probably the most personal that I'll get about the reminiscing, because I remember 2015... well, not fondly, but it was an important year for my family. That February and March my dad had suffered his first two strokes (I remember the week of the first one literally beginning with the Spider-Man/MCU news and ending with him in the emergency room) which left him housebound during the spring. Then when June rolled around and he could really leave the house again, in lieu of going places as we had done in the past, he and I saw a movie nearly every weekend from then until April or so of 2016. It was a nice couple of hours of normalcy a week for us, and so while I don't really have a "personal movie" for 2015 like I have for other years (maybe Force Awakens comes the closest) I do have some great experiences that I shared with him. 2016 was probably the last year to date that I really went to see smaller films in theaters, so I'm looking forward to that. Thank you!

Great write up on one of the most interesting recent years for box office (though I may be a little biased, since 2014 was my first year on here 😉 ). No billion dollar films, the biggest domestic hit wasn't a blockbuster, plenty of genre and studio representation... from Frozen taking the first weekend of the year to the Sony hack it was just a fascinating twelve months all around, and one that I'm really glad I got to be here for. Like you say it really was kind of the last year before the big films truly took over. I'm looking forward to 2015, particularly because I saw a ton of films in the theater that year.

Great write ups! I wasn't on this forum until 2014 (it was actually Frozen that got me really interested in box office again in late 2013, so I suppose this is an appropriate place to come into this thread lol), but I do remember this being a big year for movies. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the next few years, quieter as though they may be in comparison. Well done!

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Dolittle January 20, 11 am, about 15% full AMC Disney Springs 24, Lake Buena Vista, FL Trailers: -Artemis Fowl -The Call of the Wild -Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway -Emma. -Trolls World Tour My first experience in a Dolby cinema, it was certainly something. The audience that was there seemed into it (families with very small children), and there were cheers at the end.

Good call.

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker December 25, 10:30 am, about 70% full AMC Disney Springs 24, Lake Buena Vista, FL Trailers: -Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar -1917 -Free Guy -Bad Boys for Life -No Time To Die -Top Gun: Maverick -Wonder Woman 1984 -Onward -Black Widow -Mulan Pretty quiet crowd for a huge tent-pole so close to opening, but there was applause at the end. Before the movie started I popped into the 10:15 showing of Frozen II next door, and it was about 50% full.