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Updated as of August 29th 2023! Keynotes: Knock at the Cabin has been knocked off the Top 100 OW's list; the opening weekend of Spoiler Alert has been knocked off the Top 100 PTA's list.

@CJohn I see weekend results (8/24 to 8/27) here have yet to be released, but Gran Turismo wasn't doing too shabby a week ago, it's probably gonna finish somewhere between 80-100k tickets sold. For a movie that opened to under 30k, good legs. I don't really know everything that opened this week, I believe Talk to Me did? That probably did okay.

I'll pass, thank you.

MCU debate again lol

Update: The Chinese films Oh My School!, Advancing of ZQ and The White Storm 3 surfaced on The Numbers as $280-300+ million worldwide grossers a few weeks ago. These numbers, barring any eventual update, seem to be incorrect, as EntGroup's China box office tracker reports much lower numbers for all of these films, all of them well under $100 million worldwide. No other OS territory numbers are known (if existant, probably not much higher than the usual numbers for Chinese films OS), and even checking the box office track records on The Numbers, they seem to not match the global numbers actually reported. So, I'm assuming henceforth that their box office numbers are not the ones you have seen on the list up to this point, and thus, I have removed these films from the Top 100 WW list. Therefore, almost all numbers have been updated as of August 23rd, 2023 (except for a few non-American films, including China's Lost in the Stars and Japan's The First Slam Dunk). Main keynotes being the reentries in the Top 100 WW of three films previously knocked out: Wonder Woman 1984, Scream VI and The Suicide Squad.

I also am hoping that Killers of the Flower Moon breaks out. Not a huge OW hit, but anything at around $25-30 million and $140-150 million DOM would be solid for an R-rated 220 minute drama, even though it does boast a massive budget, but with Apple co-financing, I'm sure they're not actively expecting it to be a monster theatrically (though it should in an ideal world). For the next couple weekends, things are dour lol. Gran Turismo is DOA, assuredly. Equalizer 3 and Nun II might hit $90-100 million DOM, but September is pretty doldrummy, which hopefully will give The Creator a chance to breakout. Tbh I'm not expecting much more than Dungeons & Dragons numbers, best case scenario something like Lost City/Bullet Train in the low $100 million range, but hey, an original sci-fi film doing good numbers would be a win.

Updated as of August 22nd, 2023! Only one keynote this week: Tom & Jerry has been knocked off the Top 100 OW's list.

Blue Beetle Blue Bombed. 👏 Strays were found by the side of the road. 👏 Um Filme do Caraças was a bomb do caraças. 👏 Oppenheimer 1st probably due to IMAX/4DX, I assume?

Big oof lol. Well, at least a shit movie (Filme do Caraças) will not be making money lol.

Updated as of August 16th, 2023! Keynotes: Wonder Woman 1984, Tom & Jerry and Death on the Nile have all been knocked off the Top 100 DOM list; Wonder Woman 1984, Scream VI and The Suicide Squad have all been knocked off the Top 100 WW list.

Lmfao, 111k? That's batshit crazy lol. I had forgotten that the Conjuring franchise is massive here. But I'd be surprised if Nun 2 hits anywhere close to 1. Maybe 55-60k tickets (would still be the biggest since Barbenheimer, but 50% off from the first one). I'm expecting 20k from Filme do Caraças, though I have no pre-sales data so I'm guessing blindly lol. Don't know how the other Equalizers and Murder on the Orient Express + Death on the Nile did, so yeah.

Big shame on the Turtles side, though, since I'm pretty sure they're popular amidst our generation, and even the younger kids have the Nickelodeon show. I guess kids these days don't care anymore lol. Eh, given that the kind of movie Um Filme do Caraças is, I'd hardly be surprised if it came close to Pôr do Sol numbers. Maybe not that high, but like 23-25k tickets. The leads are Herman José and Pedro Alves aka Zeca Estacionâncio/Bino from Festa é Festa, after all. Alves literally had the Curral de Moinas hit last year. And yeah, probably nothing will do substantial numbers anytime soon. Maybe only in September when Saw X comes out?

Not surprised with Turtles, it presumably has little OS appeal, a very Spider-Verse-ish run. And Demeter always screamed bomb lol. Gran Turismo didn't come that far off from 2014's Need for Speed in tickets sold, which given ticket price inflation and the bigger popularity of the NfS franchise is positive imo 👏 Um Filme do Caraças looks like a fucking abomination lol. Is it really a bomb in the making, though? That kind of movies always performs well. I've seen ads attached to Liga Portugal games on Sport TV too. As for Blue Beetle and Strays, RIP.

Fairly positive this one will surprise. The game is really popular here lol

Updated as of August 8th, 2023! Keynotes: Violent Night and Snake Eyes have been knocked off the top 100 OW's list; The third weekend of The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been knocked off the top 100 PTA's list; Ticket to Paradise, Morbius and the Chinese film Sacrifice have all been knocked off the top 100 WW list.

The Meg numbers are decent, all things considered. Given the lack of screens and the diminishing return factor, that's still a decent opening. Doesn't surprise me regarding Pôr do Sol tbh lol, but still, 32k tickets is probably the biggest Portuguese movie debut since the Curral de Moinas movie, proving that RTP is the absolute Gawd of Portuguese audiovisual

MOVIES ARE BACK

Flop on television, smash hit in theaters

Updated as of August 1st, 2023! Keynotes: PAW Patrol: The Movie was knocked off the Top 100 OW's list. The OW of Return to Seoul and the 2nd weekend of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness were knocked off the Top 100 PTA's list. Suzume's WW run was updated. Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Black Phone and the Chinese film A Writer's Odyssey have been bumped off the Top 100 WW list.

Updated as of July 25th 2023, after Barbenheimer weekend!

The recent box office returns you speak of are literally because of the mentality that you will get it for free on streaming. Companies changed consumer habits purposefully with the introduction of streaming service-friendly short theatrical windows. Not even just crippling the physical media and PVOD businesses, but also decreasing theatrical revenue (numerous films had their runs shortened because of this). They are doing it under the usual assumption that it's more profitable for themselves. While I doubt it's not making them money, it's a hurtful model for literally every cogwheel involved. Now, if you feel happy that you're getting movies at home sooner than you used to, good for you, and I can't blame you for having different consuming habits, but I hope you're not one of the people lamenting the theatrical model's decline, then.

Updated as of July 18th, 2023!

I am not particularly bothered about public enterprise. Social welfare and equality stand higher than selfish interest, and this does not threaten personal property in any way. And if things are the way *they're supposed to be*, it has as little bureaucracy as possible

Public business. A socialist economy system. "Fall of Communism" - you mean the disregard for rules of equity during the nationalization of property as executed by a cult of personality, narcissistic tyrant? It is as bad an example as any. Tell me you know a thing more about communism than just the dark side of Stalinist practices and I'll begin to consider you know a thing about what you're talking about. Till then, I am as much a Luddite as you are a neoliberal.

It's not "cool" to be anti-capitalist. This sentiment has always existed. Not everyone - as a matter of fact, a large amount of people - do not benefit from capitalism, and probably never will. You may mock people for having rightfully placed rage against what is currently established, call them luddites and idiots, and that's just gonna make you sound as comically evil as these AMPTP buffoons. And the "they never come up with a solution" argument, have they ever had a chance to? Fuck off.