TOP GUN MAVERICK/MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND THREAD | 126.7M 3-Day, 160.5M 4-Day. The biggest Memorial Day opening ever! | Doctor Strange 20.5M 4-Day, Bob's Burgers 14.8M
TAKE
MY
BREATH
AWAY
Last year, Memorial Day weekend was, in my eyes at least, the most important weekend of 2021. After the lockdowns, Premier Access, and HBO Max, that year’s Memorial Day, headlined by both A Quiet Place Part II and Cruella, was a statement. Beforehand, movie theater attendance and interest was still in doubt in a world plagued (get it?) by streaming and reluctance from moviegoers in venturing out to these consolidated areas. Bu
Counterintuitive as it may seem, I think a softer Saturday may be good news for TG2’s legs, at least over the next 11.5 days: there really seems to be a “wait for IMAX” (or other PLF) demand here, which is just going to keep pushing business forward (at higher ATP) as long as those formats are available. A small scale version of what Avatar did in 3D. Even with Thursday & holiday inflation on OW, a $60M second weekend is quite plausible
And Paramount should go ahead and plant th
