Weekend Actuals 7/3-7/5: Inside Out 29.77M, JW 29.24M, Genisys 27.02M. Greek Wedding's record survives

[redfirebird2008]

So wait, the sequel plot begins right when they come back from their honeymoon? 13 years is a long time to wait for that storyline, lol. But I will say Nia is aging very well judging by a recent photo on IMDB. Maybe they can pull it off.

[CJohn]

Gonna point this out because somebody has to once every summer: Mamma Mia did incredible business. 27m OW against Dark Knight and a 5x multiplier is good enough--610m worldwide, without opening in most of the markets that cater to boffo international business these days, is outstanding. 

Mamma Mia is on the top 5 most seen movies ever over here. A pure case of WTFuckness. 

[Plain Old Tele]

Where are my Max actuals?!

[CJohn]

Where are my Max actuals?!

6.62M

[grim22]

Mamma Mia is on the top 5 most seen movies ever over here. A pure case of WTFuckness. 

 

Wasn't Mamma Mia the highest grossing movie in UK box office history till Avatar and Skyfall overtook it?

 

EDIT: Yup

 

Timeline of the highest-grossing film record since 1975^[11]

Year of record	Title	Record setting gross (£ million)
1976	Jaws	11.8
1978	Star Wars	14.4
1978	Grease	14.7
1983	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	21.7
1990	Ghost	23.3
1993	Jurassic Park	47.9
1997 *	The Full Monty	52.2
1998	Titanic	69.0
2008 *	Mamma Mia![nb 2]	68.5/69.2
2010	Avatar	94.0
2012 *	Skyfall	102.9[2]

 

Edited July 6, 2015 by grim22

[redfirebird2008]

Mamma Mia is on the top 5 most seen movies ever over here. A pure case of WTFuckness. 

 

You Euros fucking love ABBA.

[DAJK]

Mamma Mia is on the top 5 most seen movies ever over here. A pure case of WTFuckness.

The 10 years my manager has been working at our specific movie theatre, he said Mama Mia was by far the busiest movie. We had it for 8 or 9 weeks (which is a lot for 5 screen theatre) and it was incredibly busy every night. He said it was crazy that its fourth Friday was just as busy as the first.

[Fancyarcher]

As I said in the estimates thread:

I don't understand the hate for MBFGW, particularly going into this weekend. Sure, it didn't endure in the cultural consciousness, but it earned that record by starting small and then building and building to #2 in weekend 20. That was astounding even in 2002. It was a perpetual-motion-machine of WOM.

And yet people hate on the movie now. It's almost like the Ally McBeal of cinema, seemingly nobody on the Internet will admit that they liked it back then, or that its popularity back then was legitimate.

 

Oh, I don't hate the film, last I remembered, I thought it was alright, it's just that making a sequel thirteen years after the original, is basically asking for trouble. 

[CJohn]

You Euros fucking love ABBA.

Shit was insane. It reigned supreme in that year's September and October. My mom saw it twice in theaters.

[TServo2049]

Oh, I don't hate the film, last I remembered, I thought it was alright, it's just that making a sequel thirteen years after the original, is basically asking for trouble.

I never said the sequel was a good idea.

[Travod]

Where are my Max actuals?!

 

Where are MY Max actuals?

[Fancyarcher]

Mamma Mia is on the top 5 most seen movies ever over here. A pure case of WTFuckness. 

 

The success of Mamma Mia continues to baffle to me today. It's such a POS nonsensical movie. 

Edited July 6, 2015 by Insidearcher

[grim22]

Looking at the top grossing movies in the UK, I remember when Full Monty was a major phenomenon, it even did really well in India if memory serves and got Robert Carlyle the Bond villain gig as well. It did 250M WW on a 4M budget, that is hitting the pop culture consciousness in a major way.

[Plain Old Tele]

6.62M

 

That's not the number I wanted.

[CJohn]

That's not the number I wanted.

Wait, you are still following Mad Max's run? You turned into Algren or what?  

[Ethan Hunt]

I am so done with this shit ass American country, couldn't even give my dino babies the first place again for the fourth time. Instead it gave it to a bunch of stupid feelings.

Those feeling are much cooler than your dinos

Have you seem Inside Out? Is it released in Portugal yet?

[Fancyarcher]

I never said the sequel was a good idea.

 

I know. I was just pointing that out. 

[Plain Old Tele]

Wait, you are still following Mad Max's run? You turned into Algren or what?

 

No, I didn't say Mad Max. I said Max.

 

Yes, I'm still keeping an eye on Furiosa and her trek to 150m.

[Ethan Hunt]

The success of Mamma Mia continues to baffle to me today. It's such a POS nonsensical movie.

Boo!

[filmlover]

Mamma Mia! was catnip for 40/50/60 somethings that remembered when that music was popular. And it was based on a massively popular show. And the movie had an all-star cast led by Meryl coming off of her popular performance in The Devil Wears Prada. In retrospect, it's not surprising the movie was so big.