Weekend Thread (6/24-26) | Actuals: Elvis 31.2, TGM 29.6, JWD 26.7, Black Phone 23.6, Lightyear 18.1

[grim22]

40 minutes ago, Eric Presley said:

I know this is unfair since I haven't seen it since I was a wee lad, but I don't remember that cartoon being that good? I remember feeling like it was just filler while waiting for other Disney Channel shows to come on.

Defunct tv covered it recently, sounded great from their descriptions with long running characters and continuity arcs

 

 

 

 

Edited June 27, 2022 by grim22

[EmpireCity]

10 hours ago, superheavysun said:

Top gun two is not making any where near 700m. Thor 4 is coming out and will cut off it legs.

 

Funny, heard the same thing about $600m....

[MrPink]

2 hours ago, grim22 said:

One good thing about Joker doing so well is that we were spared a lot of stupid semantic arguments about whether Deadpool or Deadpool 2 is the highest grossing R rated movie since Deadpool 2 had money from "Once upon a Deadpool" in China and the world added to it to get to higher than Deadpool. But Once Upon A Deadpool was basically Deadpool 2 with a framing story and a PG-13 rating.

 

*Stares blankly*

 

Legit forgot Once Upon a Deadpool was even a thing.

Edited June 27, 2022 by MrPink

[EmpireCity]

$9.25m TGM

$8.3m Elvis

$8.1m JWD

$5.6m BP

$5.4m LY

[superduperm]

1 minute ago, EmpireCity said:

$9.25m TGM

$8.3m Elvis

$8.1m JWD

$5.6m BP

$5.4m LY

Damn… that clinches it for Elvis.

[Borobudur]

So Elvis will win the weekend after all? 

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

2 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

$9.25m TGM

$8.3m Elvis

$8.1m JWD

$5.6m BP

$5.4m LY

Lower than estimates for TG. Higher than projections for Elvis so there's #1.

 

About spot-on for rest

 

Elvis- 31.1

Top Gun- 29.5

[Jiffy]

Can't say I'm not annoyed with TGM dropping below $30m with actuals. Oh well, can't win them all.

[Mojoguy]

6 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

$9.25m TGM

$8.3m Elvis

$8.1m JWD

$5.6m BP

$5.4m LY

Looks like the old ladies waited till Sunday to see Elvis.

 

Elvis needed the win more than TGM, which is already a mega hit.

[EmpireCity]

Great indication of legs for Elvis.  It has good reviews and what seems to be great WOM.  I think it holds up well the next 6 weeks.  

[CaptNathanBrittles]

2 hours ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

 

Do we have similar info for other huge movies (my way of asking what percentage of endgame sales were repeat viewings)?

 

 

I remember TITANIC's unique admissions being 100m with 29m repeat. The relevance being that TITANIC still would have become the highest grossing film of its time without repeat viewings from teenage girls contrary to semi-popular myth.

[thebig2000]

Wow, Elvis actually managed to claim the top spot. I guess the elderly enjoy doing things more on Sunday. But seriously, I did not expect this after Saturday. I agree that it will hold up quite well over the next few weeks.

[interiorgatordecorator]

Since this a toy story thread as well 

How is Toy Story 2 the worst reviewed (both by critics and audiences) of the original trilogy?

2 has a spot in my top 10 favorite movies while the other two are just great movies 

Edited June 27, 2022 by interiorgatordecorator

[EmpireCity]

4 minutes ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

Since this a toy story thread as well 

How is Toy Story 2 the worst reviewed (both by critics and audiences) of the original trilogy?

2 probably has a spot in my top 5 favorite movies while the other two are just great movies 

 

Mostly because 3 is flat out brilliant and 4 is really good.  

[Eric Loves Rey]

6 minutes ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

Since this a toy story thread as well 

How is Toy Story 2 the worst reviewed (both by critics and audiences) of the original trilogy?

2 has a spot in my top 10 favorite movies while the other two are just great movies 

Is it? I thought it was the best-reviewed movie of all time until Lady Bird came out?

[interiorgatordecorator]

12 minutes ago, Eric Presley said:

Is it? I thought it was the best-reviewed movie of all time until Lady Bird came out?

 

Thats the first one

Both 1 and 2 have 100% RT but average rating for 1 is a 9.10 and "only" 8.70 for 2, 95 vs 88 on metacritic, 4.2 vs 3.9 on letterboxd, and 8.3 vs 7.9 on imdb

3 also has leads in all 4 sites, even on rt, where it only has a 98%, its average rating is higher (8.90)

Edited June 27, 2022 by interiorgatordecorator

[GipJo]

It's funny to me how China said no to all the movies that catered to China specially. From Mulan live action, to Shang-Chi the first Chinese superhero, and now Minion 2 that uses Chinese culture as background. All those efforts are useless. I hope Hollywood knows by now that just good story itself is enough for you to get money from China, making stories about China will only backfire.

[AniNate]

3 hours ago, Eric Presley said:

I know this is unfair since I haven't seen it since I was a wee lad, but I don't remember that cartoon being that good? I remember feeling like it was just filler while waiting for other Disney Channel shows to come on.

 

I remember watching the pilot movie quite a bit (which still had Tim Allen). Wasn't anything Earth shattering but it had a lot of funny one liners and colorful characters, which is far more than I could say for this Lightyear. Has a similar emotional arc as well that is executed far better. I could buy Andy wanting a Lightyear toy from it.

 

 

Edited June 27, 2022 by AniNate

[CJohn]

Happy for Elvis. It needs the win more than TG2. Legs should be good until it hits HBO MAX. 100M+ needs to happen.

Edited June 27, 2022 by CJohn

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

Just now, CJohn said:

Happy for Elvis. It needs the win more than TG2. Legs should be good until it hits HBO MAX. 100M+ need to happen.

Gatsby's legs bring it to about 90m and it's extremely unlikely this would have a 2.89x since reviews, audience reception is better + opening wasn't as large. So it's making 90 at minimum. What other recent adult summer release with a 30m OW had legs this weak?

 

Rocketman had an absurdly high multiplier (3.75) which following would take it to like 117m. Most likely at least a 3.3 multiplier which should take it to about 103m. I'd say this finishes at about 105, hoping it could eek it to 110 or more but I'll take it