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

[M37]

5 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

37

5.9

3.7 

Strange won’t even get to $16M for the 3-day from that, -59% from last Sat - got shot down by TG2

 

Going to be barely over the $370 mark I said previously it needed by Memorial Day in order to top $400M, should wind up right on that cut line

 

And probably close enough that Disney will make sure it happens, one way or another 

[LegendaryBen]

Just now, M37 said:

Strange won’t even get to $16M for the 3-day from that, -59% from last Sat - got shot down by TG2

 

Going to be barely over the $370 mark I said previously it needed by Memorial Day in order to top $400M, should wind up right on that cut line

 

And probably close enough that Disney will make sure it happens, one way or another 

At least Lightyear and Thor 4 will help boost. Still 59% down from last Saturday is still catastrophic for better lack of word.

[KJsooner]

Feige/Marvel potentially lost 100+ million dollars bc they let Raimi make Evil Dead 4. What a strange decision by marvel. 

 

Misleading marketing campaign +++ crap wom doomed them. Whatever good will the MCU had from NWH is gone. 
 

Still think they should’ve left things at Endgame. MCU is definitely starting to lose some luster. DS-2 should’ve easily been a 400 mil grosser.

[BruiseCruise]

1 minute ago, KJsooner said:

Feige/Marvel potentially lost 100+ million dollars bc they let Raimi make Evil Dead 4. What a strange decision by marvel. 

 

Misleading marketing campaign +++ crap wom doomed them. Whatever good will the MCU had from NWH is gone. 
 

Still think they should’ve left things at Endgame. MCU is definitely starting to lose some luster. DS-2 should’ve easily been a 400 mil grosser.

You can say this if Thor and BP2 underperform but until then its way premature

[M37]

15 minutes ago, LegendaryBen said:

At least Lightyear and Thor 4 will help boost. Still 59% down from last Saturday is still catastrophic for better lack of word.

I was already factoring that in. Both Civil War and Infinity War only clawed out ~$31M after Memorial Day, with the respective assists from the other Disney summer openings, and Strange has been generally weaker in holding

[DAJK]

Top Gun flat if not slight increase in Canada today from yesterday (INCLUDING Thursday previews). 

[grey ghost]

44 minutes ago, KJsooner said:

Feige/Marvel potentially lost 100+ million dollars bc they let Raimi make Evil Dead 4. What a strange decision by marvel. 

 

Misleading marketing campaign +++ crap wom doomed them. Whatever good will the MCU had from NWH is gone. 
 

Still think they should’ve left things at Endgame. MCU is definitely starting to lose some luster. DS-2 should’ve easily been a 400 mil grosser.

 

Left things at Endgame?

 

They would be leaving billions at the table.

[EmpireCity]

Solidly $37.5m

[LonePirate]

$150M for the 4 day still seems possible. Surely Sunday and Monday can squeeze out $61M between them. 

[Alex SciChannel]

18 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Solidly $37.5m

15% increase from true Friday. Like it.

 

19.26M

32.54M

37.5M (+15%)

35.7M (-4.8%)

3-day 125M

30M (-16%)

4-day $155M

 

[Blankments]

Top Gun: Maverick is great; yeah. Nice to see a blockbuster that unabashedly makes you leave the theater feeling fantastic about everything.

 

Also watched Chip 'n Dale today. definitely made the right decision to put that on streaming

[Ozymandias]

4 hours ago, CJohn said:

It is fucking ridiculous. The episodes are endless. By the 60 minutes mark in the first episode literally nothing plot wise had happened yet.

 

Damn you weren't kidding, plot didn't start until the last 5 minutes of Episode 1.

[Spidey Freak]

4 hours ago, John Marston said:

Top ten grossing films of 1986. I think Crocodile Dundee was actually the big surprise of the year 
 

1	Top Gun	Paramount	$176,781,728
2	Crocodile Dundee		$174,803,506
3	Platoon	Orion	$138,530,565
4	The Karate Kid Part II	Columbia	$115,103,979
5	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Paramount	$109,713,132
6	Back to School	Orion	$91,258,000
7	Aliens	Fox	$86,160,248
8	The Golden Child	Paramount	$79,817,937
9	Ruthless People	Disney	$71,624,879
10	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Paramount	$70,136,169

 

Transformers really the worst thing to happen to Paramount. Their overreliance on it literally pulled the rug under their feet once it began to crumble.

 

3 hours ago, Chaz said:

One Disney movie and four Paramount movies in the top ten. How times have changed. 
 

Ruthless People needs a Bluray release.

 

Meanwhile even all those years ago Sony/Columbia would put in a massive teenage boi centric IP in the Top 5 and call it a day. 

[John Marston]

where the hell do people get time to watch all these shows. It seems people are able to keep up with every major show that is out. Do people just spend all their free time binging shows?

[Johnny Tran]

10 minutes ago, John Marston said:

where the hell do people get time to watch all these shows. It seems people are able to keep up with every major show that is out. Do people just spend all their free time binging shows?

 

Three words:  Loss of Sleep. 

[Rthmessiah]

Would agree with EmpireCity Sat 37.5

[titanic2187]

Unexpected lower Saturday bump than batman despite being a less fan-driven IP and A+ cinemascore. Guess that Saturday bump was partly muted by Sunday being a second Saturday. 

 

Referring 2018 and 2019 memorial weekend Sunday, most movies single digit or even increase on Sunday. However, the holiday bump post-pandemic has been meh. 

[Liiviig 1998]

33 minutes ago, Ozymandias said:

 

Damn you weren't kidding, plot didn't start until the last 5 minutes of Episode 1.

Episode 1 does take it a little too slow but the rest(on ep 5) are fine and don't personally mind bse its the best stranger things has been in years and the scope is quite bigger which can be it's detriment at points in the season.

[picores]

Looking at 125m+ OW and 150m+ 4-Day. Cant see les than 3x multiplier from here, 400m should happen and who knows, maybe the summer crown.

[Gopher]

Jumping in to share that Saturday jumps for Memorial Day weekend openers are always muted. Quiet Place 2 jumped 4% from true Friday. Solo jumped 15%. Top Gun's is looking closer to the higher end of recent comps (Aladdin, which did +20-25%). And I imagine the Memorial Day monday itself is going to be a very impressive hold...