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Edit, wrong thread. My apologies everyone!

I’m not trying to step on anyone’s toes, because I respect everyone’s taste in movies no matter how close it aligns with mine or not, but I just could never get on board with Wes Anderson’s storytelling. His films are all very distinct and look beautiful, but since “style over substance” is a common complaint about movies, I always felt that somehow Anderson has been “exempt” from this. Not saying that I don’t understand why people like his films. I just never could get on board. Even my favourites of his are just the ones that I “enjoyed.” I’ve never LOVED an Anderson film.

January: M3GAN Plane A Man Called Otto Missing The Son February: 80 For Brady Knock at the Cabin Knock at the Cabin Titanic 3D Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Cocaine Bear March 65 Creed 3 Scream VI Champions Shazam! Fury of the Gods Shazam! Fury of the Gods John Wick: Chapter 4 Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves April Air The Super Mario Bros Movie Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves The Super Mario Bros Movie The Pope's Exorcist Evil Dead Rise Evil Dead Rise Are You There God? It's Me: Margaret May Are You There God? It's Me: Margaret Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 Fast X The Little Mermaid June The Boogeyman Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Elemental The Flash Total: 40

Glad (most) holdovers saw good drops this weekend, but what worries me about this week (and the past few weeks) at the box office is how much depth the weekend top 10 is going to lose now. A month ago, you had Spiderverse, Transformers, Mermaid, Fast, etc. (and even last weekend, Elemental and Flash) pulling in audiences. Next weekend, it's basically going to be Indy and scraps. Which is what the box office has really looked like since COVID (1 big opener and scraps). Hoping July rebounds in a big way, which I can genuinely see happening, thankfully.

Eh, I always find it hard to justify any performer being paid 20M+ for a few months work when there are people literally starving in the streets, or losing their homes due to medical debt, or unable to buy insulin or call an ambulance. But that’s just me.

Tim Robinson needs to headline an R rated comedy alongside some A-lister. Now THAT is something I would pay to see.

Yea NHF walk-ups today just weren’t amazing where I am. I would just chalk it up to nice weather here, but @WrathOfHan has said the same thing, which makes me think Deadline might have been onto something. But Asteroid City… if coastal BC was the metric, this thing is a bona fide blockbuster.

I am so in with this. Loved the Big Short, hope this can match that movie’s wit and energy.

Nah we aren’t dissing CODA. Such a sweet, heartfelt movie. And a true underdog story at the Oscars. I’ll die on that hill.

https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office-the-flash-no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-1235422274/amp/ Elemental/Spider - 5.4M / 18M weekend Flash - 4.3M / 14M weekend (75% drop) NHF - 5.3M / 14-15M Transformers - 10.6M Asteroid City - 7.5M

You know, I will say sometimes it sucks being in the minority on a movie. Either everyone loves it and you don’t, and it feels like a constant party that you’re not invited to Or you really enjoyed the Flash and it makes it harder to laugh at the misery WB is facing as a result of their terrible decisions. Even though you really liked the movie itself.

I mean they can't buy tickets for them, thereby increasing their box office earnings lol.

The fact that my most consistently well-performing tiktoks are comedic anecdotes about sneaking into R-rated movies shows that there’s still some interest out there for R-rated comedy/horror in the theater. Just maybe not among the right demographic that can buy a ticket

Imagine 1960s Robert Oppenheimer thinking about what his legacy is going to be in the coming decades, being told that in 2023, one of the first words that people think of when they hear his name is "Barbie".

Yea, I couldn’t care less what sort of profits a movie brings in to a studio that doesn’t care to pay or treat its animators or hard-working artists fairly. Box office, at least for me these days, is all about expectations, and keeping the theatrical model alive.

How much of that is early access though? If it’s only like 200-300k, good. But if EA did like 1M and Thursday only did 1.1M, that’s bad.

1. Across the Spiderverse 2. Elemental 3. No Hard Feelings 4. The Flash 5. Transformers 6. Asteroid City 7. The Little Mermaid 8. GOTG3 9. The Blackening 10. The Boogeyman

Asteroid City is selling like crazy here. No Hard Feelings is actually doing pretty decently as well. Hoping for 10M for the former and high teens for the latter.

Hopefully this scrapes together a decent worldwide total in the coming weeks. Otherwise I feel like, box office wise, this will have a similar legacy as TRON: Legacy (no pun intended). Not an awful run by any stretch, but Disney was clearly hoping for something special, and while it wasn’t a financial failure that lost them hundreds of millions of dollars, it’ll merely be viewed as “fine” years down the line. Which I guess is “better than it could have done” but also “not as good as it could have done” either.

Jesus. WB must be happy that this can take some bad press away from The Flash.

Kind of a shame that both big movies this weekend were really solid films and they’re both the bombs of the year. Oh well, you win some you lose some. I’ve kind of accepted that me and critics, or me and audiences, won’t always agree on every movie. And that’s completely okay. I just hope Muschiettei continues to get work.

Wow… I can honestly say my theory of “Flash is bombing because it sucks” is down the drain. I know it’s just my personal opinion, so don’t come after me, but that was one of DC’s best movies.

I see that this weekend was so irrelevant that Mojo didn't even bother adding Thursday previews twice to its Friday numbers again

I think we can all agree that Jurassic World had the best weekend thread of all time. Those numbers going up and up and up throughout the day/evening Friday was legendary. June 12, 2015. No day on BOT has topped it since.

Jesus Christ I can’t believe this thread had to have an Amber Heard warning… and people are STILL saying it’s the best weekend thread in a along time. Yea I’m tapping out. This sucks lol.