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

[charlie Jatinder]

6 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

who are known to bully theater owners

you know its common for big movies to take bigger share of BO than normal movies across world.

 

who makes biggest movies? Disney.

[Eric is Quiet]

12 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

 

Thank goodness for the warriors in shining knight who will stand up for a vile and greedy corporation who has done endless amounts of shady tactics for greed. Sure, all corporations are like that, but as a movie fan having to see one of the gatekeepers of the artform I hold dear to my heart, it's insanity to believe there are people who will defend Disney - who are known to bully theater owners, trying to trademark holidays, send good theatrical propostions to streaming for the fucking Hell of it, sleeching endless amounts of money off nostalgia for 95% of every other thing they make, etc. - just because they own good IP.

Cool story bro. Then complain about Disney for those reasons, not some garbage petty “lol Disney is only saying Pirates 3 has the bigger opening because they’re jealous UwU” like users were doing. Especially because if the former record holder was like Warner or Universal and Deadline reported the same stuff, nobody would bat an eye on this.

[Eric is Quiet]

This whole argument doesnt even matter anyways. This is destined to increase in the actuals making this whole argument null and void.

[titanic2187]

 Thanks to back-to-back success from Scream 5, to Sonic 2, to TLC and now TGM. Paramount is now the biggest studio of 2022 for box office revenue and that is without any superhero movie in the mix to boost. In fact, the 21% box office share is the biggest share for Paramount since 2011. I don't expect this to last given that paramount has little to offer in second half. 

Rank	Distributor	Movies	2022 Gross	Tickets	Share
1	Paramount Pictures	8	$552,829,295	60,286,723	20.95%
2	Sony Pictures	8	$485,795,647	52,976,621	18.41%
3	Warner Bros.	6	$475,568,916	51,861,384	18.02%
4	Walt Disney	4	$377,391,816	41,155,049	14.30%
5	Universal	7	$244,329,370	26,644,420	9.26%
6	20th Century Studios	4	$89,508,827	9,761,048	3.39%
7	United Artists	7	$81,975,871	8,939,569	3.11%
8	A24	6	$74,958,414	8,174,307	2.84%
9	Focus Features	5	$68,242,480	7,441,925	2.59%
10	Lionsgate	3	$53,379,283	5,821,076	2.02%

 

 

Lionsgate sit at the hard bottom as even A24 and Focus Features managed to beat it. 

[Borf the Borf]

1 hour ago, Brandon Gray said:

It wasn't Disney pointing this out... It was me. I sent the email to Deadline to correct them... They responded by saying Box Office Mojo (and by extension me) was wrong, when I wasn't... Then they update, without really admitting that they (and their sources) were wrong... sigh

 

Funny to have this behind-the-scenes drama when the real story is how amazing Top Gun: Maverick's box office is, even if it doesn't actually beat the Memorial weekend gross record.

 

There's more to the drama, but this is my first post here... This forum is awesome. Appreciate how you all are keeping the box office torch alive.

 

More detail on this story: I saw Deadline claiming the record when the estimate was $142 million, so I wrote to them and told them that "If Top Gun gets to count Thursday previews etc, then so does At World's End."

 

Then they accuse me of double-counting At World's End's $13.2 million previews back in the day, which could easily be fact-checked... Their so-called "box office authorities" just assumed I was wrong.

 

After further exchanges, I believe Deadline reached out to Disney. They even used some of my email as part of their story, yet they still didn't get it fully right...

 

Anyway, there's more to this behind-the-scenes drama. Posting here because it came up in the thread, and I thought you all might be interested.

 

Again, appreciate this forum. Thank you!

 

Regards,

Brandon Gray

 

 

 

Cool but like your site excludes Pirates Thurs take on your leader board,,  So you are correcting them for properly reporting on your statistic?  I know they butchered it afterwards but your site reports the record as not  including Thursday.   I actually emailed yall about this last week and how its a sham.  

Edited May 29, 2022 by Borf the Borf

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

 Thanks to back-to-back success from Scream 5, to Sonic 2, to TLC and now TGM. Paramount is now the biggest studio of 2022 for box office revenue and that is without any superhero movie in the mix to boost. In fact, the 21% box office share is the biggest share for Paramount since 2011. I don't expect this to last given that paramount has little to offer in second half. 

Rank	Distributor	Movies	2022 Gross	Tickets	Share
1	Paramount Pictures	8	$552,829,295	60,286,723	20.95%
2	Sony Pictures	8	$485,795,647	52,976,621	18.41%
3	Warner Bros.	6	$475,568,916	51,861,384	18.02%
4	Walt Disney	4	$377,391,816	41,155,049	14.30%
5	Universal	7	$244,329,370	26,644,420	9.26%
6	20th Century Studios	4	$89,508,827	9,761,048	3.39%
7	United Artists	7	$81,975,871	8,939,569	3.11%
8	A24	6	$74,958,414	8,174,307	2.84%
9	Focus Features	5	$68,242,480	7,441,925	2.59%
10	Lionsgate	3	$53,379,283	5,821,076	2.02%

 

 

Lionsgate sit at the hard bottom as even A24 and Focus Features managed to beat it. 

Amazing for a studio everyone was ready to declare dead and buried, even if they won't be on top for much longer as Disney is about to unleash their other big summer tentpoles (Lightyear, Thor) and Universal having a packed slate of blockbusters and potential breakouts (Jurassic World, The Black Phone, Minions, Nope). WB and Sony will fall back two spots each as well, even if that's more due to having only two movies each (Elvis and Super-Pets from the former, Where the Crawdads Sing and Bullet Train from the latter) coming out the whole summer and all of them aiming more for "surprise hit" status.

[BruiseCruise]

8 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

 Thanks to back-to-back success from Scream 5, to Sonic 2, to TLC and now TGM. Paramount is now the biggest studio of 2022 for box office revenue and that is without any superhero movie in the mix to boost. In fact, the 21% box office share is the biggest share for Paramount since 2011. I don't expect this to last given that paramount has little to offer in second half. 

Rank	Distributor	Movies	2022 Gross	Tickets	Share
1	Paramount Pictures	8	$552,829,295	60,286,723	20.95%
2	Sony Pictures	8	$485,795,647	52,976,621	18.41%
3	Warner Bros.	6	$475,568,916	51,861,384	18.02%
4	Walt Disney	4	$377,391,816	41,155,049	14.30%
5	Universal	7	$244,329,370	26,644,420	9.26%
6	20th Century Studios	4	$89,508,827	9,761,048	3.39%
7	United Artists	7	$81,975,871	8,939,569	3.11%
8	A24	6	$74,958,414	8,174,307	2.84%
9	Focus Features	5	$68,242,480	7,441,925	2.59%
10	Lionsgate	3	$53,379,283	5,821,076	2.02%

 

 

Lionsgate sit at the hard bottom as even A24 and Focus Features managed to beat it. 

Crazy thing is Disney has 3 movies coming out that all have the potential to beat paramounts year to date gross  

[YM!]

2 hours ago, Show Me The Legion said:

Waht. Why on the world would a movie do the same at Christmas as in a normal date. What is “it’s still a CBM” even supposed to mean here — are we to infer that you think NWH or AQM or whatever would have grossed just as high with  schooltime release?

Yeah just different skews, $325m OW for the former and like an $115m OW for the latter (which I think is close to the five day) with 2.6-2.7x legs gets it to about the same totals.

[Krissykins]

Ok so which one of you is actually Nikki Finke? 

[BruiseCruise]

 

 

 

[BadOlCatSylvester]

Just now, BruiseCruise said:

 

 

 

[BruiseCruise]

I can't imagine any actor will ever again  have the kind of power over a studio that Cruise has with Paramount

[grim22]

8 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Ok so which one of you is actually Nikki Finke? 

 

@MuffinMan

 

 

 

On 6/1/2014 at 6:45 PM, MuffinMan said:

Confession: The only reason Finke tweeted Cuaron was in talks was because I sent her a tip on her website that said, verbatim, "Alfonso Cuaron is deep in talks to direct Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for Warner." Didn't leave a name, e-mail, evidence or anything else. She took the bait less than 30 minutes later.

 

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, BruiseCruise said:

 

 

 

The movie just scored close to (and perhaps when actuals come in, the actual) Memorial Day record with an A+ CinemaScore and they want to get it on streaming sooner?

 

[titanic2187]

9 minutes ago, BruiseCruise said:

 

 

 

Why rushing to a place where they can stay forever there?!

[Macleod]

10 minutes ago, BruiseCruise said:

 

 

 

 

Why would they NOT want to grab every single dollar they can with this huge success at the Box Office????

 

No, CRUISE has the right idea -- get them seeing it as many times as possible in theaters, make them wait for streaming later.  Hope Cruise fights against this tooth and nail.

Edited May 29, 2022 by Macleod

[M37]

8 minutes ago, BruiseCruise said:

 

 

 

$150+ Memorial Day opening, including $21M from IMAX alone, and the first instinct is to ... move UP the home streaming release date?

[filmlover]

Paramount is desperate to make Paramount+ happen. Newsflash: it's not going to (at least in their current state)! Even Peacock is more likely to survive.

[Grebacio]

25 minutes ago, BruiseCruise said:

Crazy thing is Disney has 3 movies coming out that all have the potential to beat paramounts year to date gross  

Nah only 2: Avatar and Black Panther

[Cap]

To be fair, 120 days is kind of insane. I could seem them pushing for at least getting it down to 90.