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At the IMAX midnight showing of Skyfall, huge cheers went up for the Aston Martin reveal and the gunbarrel at the end.

Avengers in 14 days.

What's the fastest to $1 billion worldwide? JW could do it in 10 days...

17.8% drop. Pretty slick. That puts it at $278 mil ($20 mil ahead of Avengers at the same point).

Ryan Beitz and the "World Speed Project". He's trying to collect every copy of Speed on VHS. I swear, every donation store I've been to has at least two copies of Speed.

They're great if you enjoy living vicariously through characters doing stupid things. At least the first two, I never bothered to see the third.

I think more Speed VHS tapes exist than people who've seen the movie.

A: -R rated Comedy -Whose biggest star at the time was Mike Tyson -Dumped in a post-Pixar spot against Will Ferrell Somehow made $275 mil plus of a $44 mil weekend. I still don't understand how that happened. At least Vaughn and Wilson were starts before Wedding Crashers.

I'm amused that the Jurassic Park VHS is priced the same as the Jurassic World 2D Blu Ray.

Jaws was also an insanely wide release at the time. The initial intent was to book 900 theaters opening week in an era before multiplexes. I don't know if it ever got there, but Star Wars managed over a thousand theaters in August '77.

True, but prior history is all we've really got right now. I wouldn't rule out a steeper than expected Wednesday drop after a light Monday decline and an insane Tuesday hold.

Both MOS and TDK's Monday to Wednesday drops put JW at $18-19 million for Wednesday.

Less Mel Gibson, more Sam Worthington. Same amount of work for the animators.

Avatar was obviously nuts. Nuttier that Cameron managed another improbable box office run in his first movie back since Titanic, under near identical circumstances (overblown budget, negative press during the summer). I remain amazed at how well Skyfall did, outperforming previous Bond films by nearly 50% in ticket sales and nuking all comers to the UK BO record. As Bond fans, you heard from the older fans about Bondmania in the 60's, but never really thought you'd experience anything close to it until Skyfall came out. Gravity was fun to track, as it had been a while since a Fall release was so popular.

"I think you and I are destined to do this forever."

1. SPECTRE 2. The Hateful Eight 3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 4. Bridge of Spies 5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 6. Black Mass 7. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 8. Straight Outta Compton 9. Ted 2 10. The Martian

People really need to divorce their personal opinions when talking about the box office. There will always be movies that one considers to be terrible that will make big money. For what it's worth, movies with record breaking opening weekends had mixed receptions more often than not. Like: Jaws 2 Every Which Way But Loose Star Trek: The Motion Picture Return of the Jedi Temple of Doom Beverly Hills Cop II Ghostbusters II Batman Returns Batman Forever Dead Man's Chest Spiderman 3 I'm sure some of these films some of you absolutely love and some you absolutely hate.

Good Will Hunting is the best movie of 1997 full stop. Honorable Mentions: Starship Troopers Face/Off The Fifth Element Gattaca Air Force One Looking through the releases that year, there are plenty of films from 1997 that I still need to see.

$24.8 million is INSANE. $300 million in 7 days seems unlikely, but possible. I'm just excited to see just how high JW will go.

I remember a really big snowstorm hitting the East Coast during Avatars OW. The same thing happened during Puss in Boots's OW as well, although to a much smaller scale.

Recent history may understate GoldenEye's importance to the Bond canon, but this trailer sold the film to an audience that had grown tired of James Bond.

It's going to be $22.8 or higher. I cannot see it dropping more than 10% on discount Tuesday.

Decoding Rth's likes should be someones hobby.

Both MOS and TDKR dropped 8.4-8.5% on it's first Tuesday. Anything better that would really be unprecedented.

I think thats less about the I-Rex's capabilities and more along the lines that electronics never work when the protagonists of movies are in danger. The inability for a car to start doesn't mean Jason Voorhees can remotely jam carburetors.