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

[vale9001]

You could have expected even 60M for Elvis, still a 31M open for a non franchise movie in the last 3 years is a record and pandemic or not a good start for an 85M budget movie. Cause again it can't be frontloaded as a franchise, especially the ones directed to young audiences. 

Edited June 27, 2022 by vale9001

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

Went to theater for Black Phone today but power was out and it closed. So when movie is down $5 today, thats my fault

[wildphantom]

As much as I’m team Top Gun, I’m pleased Elvis got the victory. It deserved at least a week on top as it’s a great movie. 

[Ethan Hunt]

38 minutes ago, vale9001 said:

You could have expected even 60M for Elvis, still a 31M open for a non franchise movie in the last 3 years is a record and pandemic or not a good start for an 85M budget movie. Cause again it can't be frontloaded as a franchise, especially the ones directed to young audiences. 

Feel like you just gotta note that it's a bigger opening than Rocketman and say "yeah will definitely take that" 

[vale9001]

23 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Feel like you just gotta note that it's a bigger opening than Rocketman and say "yeah will definitely take that" 

 

6 months ago all the adult  movies full of stars by Eastwood, Del Toro, Spielberg and so on failed to make 10-20M in the total run. So with this in mind the fact this movie opened with a pandemic record and with over 30m it's something in my opinion should be praised more here. All the news outlets are doing it and for a reason. 

Edited June 27, 2022 by vale9001

[Ethan Hunt]

8 minutes ago, vale9001 said:

 

6 months ago all the adult  movies full of stars by Eastwood, Del Toro, Spielberg and so one failed to make 10-20M in the total run. So with this in mind the fact this movie opened with a pandemic record and with over 30m it's something in my opinion should be praised more here. All the news outlets are doing it and for a reason. 

It's definitely good. Not flashy perhaps, but definitely solid and encouraging. 

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

Elvis is Baz Luhrmann's first #1 since Romeo and Juliet (1996).

 

Including animation, Tom Hanks and his #1 movies

2019: Toy Story 4

2016: Sully- 35m

2010: Toy Story 3

2009: Angels and Demons- 46.2m

2006: Da Vinci Code- 77m

2002: Road To Perdition (2nd weekend)- 15.4m (opened to 22m)

2000: Cast Away- 28.8m

1999: Toy Story 2 (wide expansion)

1998: You've Got Mail- 18.4m

1998: Saving Private Ryan- 30.5m

1995: Toy Story

1995: Apollo 13- 25.3m

1994: Forrest Gump- 24.4m

1994: Philadelphia- 13.8m

1992: League Of Their Own (2nd weekend)- 11.6m (opened to 13.7m)

1989: Turner and Hooch- 12.2m

1989: The Burbs- 11.1m

1987: Dragnet- 10.5m

1986: The Money Pit (3rd weekend)- 3.6m (opened to 5.3m)

1984: Splash- 6.1m

 

Elvis is Hanks' 21st #1 movie. 16th live-action. 

Edited June 27, 2022 by BestPicturePlutoNash

[Thena]

38 minutes ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

Elvis is Baz Luhrmann's first #1 since Romeo and Juliet (1996).

 

Including animation, Tom Hanks and his #1 movies

2019: Toy Story 4

2016: Sully- 35m

2010: Toy Story 3

2009: Angels and Demons- 46.2m

2006: Da Vinci Code- 77m

2002: Road To Perdition (2nd weekend)- 15.4m (opened to 22m)

2000: Cast Away- 28.8m

1999: Toy Story 2 (wide expansion)

1998: You've Got Mail- 18.4m

1998: Saving Private Ryan- 30.5m

1995: Toy Story

1995: Apollo 13- 25.3m

1994: Forrest Gump- 24.4m

1994: Philadelphia- 13.8m

1992: League Of Their Own (2nd weekend)- 11.6m (opened to 13.7m)

1989: Turner and Hooch- 12.2m

1989: The Burbs- 11.1m

1987: Dragnet- 10.5m

1986: The Money Pit (3rd weekend)- 3.6m (opened to 5.3m)

1984: Splash- 6.1m

 

Elvis is Hanks' 21st #1 movie. 16th live-action. 

 

Great Gatsby didn't go number 1?🤨

[vale9001]

Yes. Second weekend of Iron Man 3 against it. 

Edited June 27, 2022 by vale9001

[JohnnyGossamer]

1 minute ago, Thena said:

 

Great Gatsby didn't go number 1?🤨

Not quite... 

[Eric Loves Rey]

1 minute ago, Thena said:

 

Great Gatsby didn't go number 1?🤨

Came out on Iron Man 3's second weekend.

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

 

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

2 hours ago, vale9001 said:

 

6 months ago all the adult  movies full of stars by Eastwood, Del Toro, Spielberg and so on failed to make 10-20M in the total run. So with this in mind the fact this movie opened with a pandemic record and with over 30m it's something in my opinion should be praised more here. All the news outlets are doing it and for a reason. 

They did make $10-20 million (West Side Story even legged it out "all the way" to $38m domestic) but this is a great point. The box office for prestige movies in 2021 was pretty bleak, and so many people were eager to declare The End of dramas released to theaters for the rest of time, or insist that all of those movies were uniformly "unappealing" and would’ve made the same amount even without the pandemic. No matter how much it was pointed out that different demos were returning to theaters at different rates, it didn't matter. CBMs/horror were having good OWs again, so some people in certain parts were happy to write off other still-struggling genres as Doomed! or Flops!

 

So, maybe Elvis is a bit more frontloaded than a Rocketman was in 2019, but so what? Given the absolutely dire fate of similar movies last year, a $31 million opening is at least respectable, if not pretty good.

 

 

 

Edited June 27, 2022 by BoxOfficeFangrl

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

1 hour ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

Elvis is Baz Luhrmann's first #1 since Romeo and Juliet (1996).

 

Including animation, Tom Hanks and his #1 movies

2019: Toy Story 4

2016: Sully- 35m

2010: Toy Story 3

2009: Angels and Demons- 46.2m

2006: Da Vinci Code- 77m

2002: Road To Perdition (2nd weekend)- 15.4m (opened to 22m)

2000: Cast Away- 28.8m

1999: Toy Story 2 (wide expansion)

1998: You've Got Mail- 18.4m

1998: Saving Private Ryan- 30.5m

1995: Toy Story

1995: Apollo 13- 25.3m

1994: Forrest Gump- 24.4m

1994: Philadelphia- 13.8m

1992: League Of Their Own (2nd weekend)- 11.6m (opened to 13.7m)

1989: Turner and Hooch- 12.2m

1989: The Burbs- 11.1m

1987: Dragnet- 10.5m

1986: The Money Pit (3rd weekend)- 3.6m (opened to 5.3m)

1984: Splash- 6.1m

 

Elvis is Hanks' 21st #1 movie. 16th live-action. 

For comparison, Tom Cruise's #1s

 

2022: Top Gun 2

2018: Mission Impossible 6- 61.2m

2015: Mission Impossible 5- 55.5m

2013: Oblivion- 37m

2011: Mission Impossible 4- 29.5m (2nd weekend, wide expansion)

2008: Tropic Thunder- 25.8m

2006: Mission Impossible 3- 47.7m

2005: War of the Worlds- 64.8m

2004: Collateral- 24.7m

2003: Last Samurai- 24.2m

2002: Minority Report- 35.6m

2001: Vanilla Sky- 25m

2000: Mission Impossible 2- 57.8m

1999: Eyes Wide Shut- 21.7m

1996: Jerry Maguire- 17m 

1996: Mission Impossible- 45.4m

1994: Interview With Vampire- 36.3m

1993: The Firm- 32.4m

1992: Few Good Men- 15.5m

1990: Days of Thunder- 15.4m

1990: Born on 4th of July (2nd weekend, wide expansion)- 11m

1988: Rain Man (3rd weekend)- 14.3m

1988: Cocktail- 11.7m

1986: Top Gun- 8.1m

1986: Legend- 4.2m

 

25 #1s. 6 are Mission Impossibles. 2 are Top Guns

[titanic2187]

 

[Nublar7]

$26,729,510 for Dominion, up $289K from the estimate.

[The Dark Alfred]

Bit short of Titanic, but still 3rd biggest 5th weekend ever. 700m may also be happening if it gets BP buzz and a re-release. Wouldn't that be a fun race to 700m with Titanic next February lol

[Alex SciChannel]

 

[Noctis]

Can someone explain why FB3's OS gross has not been updated in 3 weeks? I'm sure it's grossed at the very least a couple of million...it needs to be updated because FB3 is standing $500k behind Uncharted WW and needs to be ahead.

[The Dark Alfred]

Easy. FB3 was so bad they had to issue plenty of refunds in bulk. BTW why does it matter if it overtakes Uncharted, it should lose a place to Sonic 2 as well, so that film will only going to slide from the charts from now.