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

[LonePirate]

So its first Monday is more than its first (true) Friday? When does that ever happen for an opening weekend? I think it's happened for non-openers like Shrek but nothing comes to mind for a film in its first week. Maybe when Christmas landed on a Monday and a film opened on the Friday before?

[Cooper Legion]

1 minute ago, LonePirate said:

So its first Monday is more than its first (true) Friday? When does that ever happen for an opening weekend? I think it's happened for non-openers like Shrek but nothing comes to mind for a film in its first week. Maybe when Christmas landed on a Monday and a film opened on the Friday before?

Happened literally the most recent normal mdw with Aladdin 

[charlie Jatinder]

Memorial Day Monday have generally -20% but most of them are family movies. This being adult will have great weekdays hold.

[ringedmortality]

Anyone gonna write an essay on the box office successes of Top Gun: Maverick and American Sniper and what it says about AMERICA?

Edited May 31, 2022 by ringedmortality

[LonePirate]

5 minutes ago, Show Me The Legion said:

Happened literally the most recent normal mdw with Aladdin 

Were its Thursday preview numbers more than $6M as it had a $31M Fri vs. a $25M Mon?

 

It definitely happened back in 2017 when Christmas was on a Monday, as Jumanji, Showman and Downsizing (but not Pitch Perfect 3) were all in their first week and grossed more on Christmas Monday than the previous Friday.

[DAJK]

8 minutes ago, ringedmortality said:

Anyone gonna write an essay on the box office successes of Top Gun: Maverick and American Sniper and what it says about AMERICA?

Here it goes:

 

military

 

 

Take that, Hemingway.

[Cooper Legion]

8 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

Were its Thursday preview numbers more than $6M as it had a $31M Fri vs. a $25M Mon?

 

It definitely happened back in 2017 when Christmas was on a Monday, as Jumanji, Showman and Downsizing (but not Pitch Perfect 3) were all in their first week and grossed more on Christmas Monday than the previous Friday.

7M previews for Aladdin yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Top Gun Maverick to 500m, perfect release date to capitalize on 3 holiday weekends (Memorial Day , Fathers Day|Juneteenth , July 4th)

[Tokugennumataka]

Looking back at the other #1 films of Memorial Day weekend and their Mon to Sat holds (mostly to get away from Fridays being frontloaded). Maverick is a different beast, one of a kind. 

Potc: AWE - -33.5%
IJ&TKoCS - -26.6%
NatM:BotS - -20.9%
SFA - -18.7% 
Hangover 2 - -34.4%
MiB 3 - -23.4%
F&F 6 - -38.0%
XM:DoFP - -32.5%
Tomorrowland - -18.6%
XM: Apocalypse - -31.5%
PotC:DMTNT - -23.8%
Solo: ASWS - -24.4%
Aladdin - -15.7%
AQP 2 - -37.0%
TG:M - -10.5%

Edited May 31, 2022 by Tokugennumataka

[BruiseCruise]

Alladdin multiplier gets TG2 to 489m

[HesAPooka]

The one direction song was more impactful for the movie than the Gaga song lol

[titanic2187]

Omg, I just realised outside of TGM, all holdovers have a terrible Sunday holds compared to pre-pandemic MDW. Some even drop more than 20% on Sunday, something we don’t see in MDW before covid, where most holdovers actually increase on Sunday.

 

just where are all the people during holiday? 

[BruiseCruise]

https://twitter.com/meJat32/status/1531438736851931137?s=20&t=efs7-AVq7UDjF1o88ZIlQw

[Alex SciChannel]

I hear the whispers of those that dare diss Prehistoric Planet and Jurassic World Dominion. 

 

Point the sinners out to me so I as the righteous Paleo major can demolish them with my ULTIMATE DINOSAUR KNOWLEDGE!!!

[Ryan Reynolds]

9 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Omg, I just realised outside of TGM, all holdovers have a terrible Sunday holds compared to pre-pandemic MDW. Some even drop more than 20% on Sunday, something we don’t see in MDW before covid, where most holdovers actually increase on Sunday.

 

just where are all the people during holiday? 

lots of good stuff on streaming came out

[Ozymandias]

1 hour ago, EmpireCity said:

Yep.  $160m 4 day is likely happening as of right now.  

 

praise Xenu

[XXRDJisDoctorDoom]

TGM O/U TG Adjusted? 

BOM has that at just over $439M....

[EmpireCity]

2 minutes ago, T-ReXXR said:

TGM O/U TG Adjusted? 

BOM has that at just over $439M....

 

Way over.  

[XXRDJisDoctorDoom]

3 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

 

Way over.  

 

Hmm. That would already be 3.5x with a lot of competition coming. Call me skeptical (that it goes way over, not that it can't match). 

[redfirebird2008]

Very impressive numbers for TG2. Will be interesting to see how high it can go in the next couple months.