***** Top Gun: Maverick *****
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, April 5, 2025 22:46
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Super Tuesday was a dud for theaters. Not a single flick pulled in over a million bucks.
Maverick takes 3rd with $691k. Just shy of $85k behind Bullet Train which already pulled into 1st over The Invitation by $14k (making The Invitations prospects for its second weekend already look pretty weak). Beast has already fallen in its 12th day, taking in almost $100k less than Maverick.
I'm looking forward to seeing some news in the next few days and what they think the re-release's takes are going to be.
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Maverick back into 2nd place on Wednesday, booting The Invitation down to third on it's 6th day in the theaters and lagging behind Bullet Train by only $32k.
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Wow... They're going all-in on Spider-Man: No Way Home's re-release with 3,935 theaters. Not a record breaker for sure, but far more than the expected 3,000 theaters. I can't say I blame them with how bad the box office is doing. There are additional scenes in it, but I can't say if they're any good or not. (And PLEASE, Sony... Let me reiterate one last time what a disaster it would be if you screw up that perfect ending and make the "More Fun Stuff" sub-title all about giving it a happy "Hollywood" ending. You still have a few hours to reverse that if you did).
It may not seem like it since buzz about No Way Home died down a long time ago, but it hasn't been out of theaters all that long. It still had showings in 132 theaters on May 20th, and in 10 theaters as late as June 30th.
The question about whether audiences are hungry to see it again so soon is pretty moot considering how poorly the box office is performing right now... It will make money. Though I wonder if we can expect this to take a commanding lead or not.
Jaws is also getting a re-release in 1,246 theaters as well. Interesting and fun for fans of the movie, but it won't be a contender for the top five.
Maverick is still way down in the theater count (6th place), but it is adding an additional 151 theaters, making it the only movie in the top ten to add theaters this week for a total of 3,113. It's essentially tied with Bullet Train (3,117), DC's League of Super Pets (3,115) and The Invitation (3,114).
Inexplicably (only if you're putting your blinders on for woke shenanigans), Beast has the 2nd highest theater count with 3,212, even after losing 396 this weekend. Beast hasn't placed higher than 4th since Sunday, and that's with anywhere between 240 and 690 more theaters than all of the movies that were beating it. It won't be any competition for Maverick even with that many theaters still showing it.
I can't even guess how good it will do at this point against Spider-Man. Honk for Jesus is only opening in 1,880 theaters though, so that probably won't be any competition.
Though it's a longshot, Maverick could take 1st place this weekend. It's still trailing behind Bullet Train, but only by the smallest of margins. 2nd place is more likely because I do expect Spider-Man to do at least moderately well. I don't see Maverick taking less than 3rd place though. I think the overlap in Maverick/Spider-Man audiences is less than the overlap between Bullet Train/Spider-Man audiences.
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The Numbers seems to be as confused as I am about this weekend. It's a total crap shoot.
https://www.the-numbers.com/news/252530830-Weekend-predictions-a-wide-
open-race-for-number-one
They say that any one of 4 movies could take 1st place.
Maverick, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Bullet Train or (as a long shot) DC League of Super Pets.
Of course I'm rooting for Maverick. It deserves to break a record for being the first movie in history to take 1st place in its 15th week, on the celebration of it's hundredth day of kicking ass in the theaters.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Though it's a longshot, Maverick could take 1st place this weekend. It's still trailing behind Bullet Train, but only by the smallest of margins. 2nd place is more likely because I do expect Spider-Man to do at least moderately well. I don't see Maverick taking less than 3rd place though. I think the overlap in Maverick/Spider-Man audiences is less than the overlap between Bullet Train/Spider-Man audiences.
Friday Top 3 Projections:
1 Spider-Man: No Way Home $1,750,000
2 Bullet Train .......... $1,100,000
3 Top Gun: Maverick ..... $1,075,000
It's a race!
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Oh no..... No. No. No.....
I just looked into the "additional scenes" for Spider-Man: No Way Home and saw the two words that I didn't want to ever see for that movie...
"Alternate Ending".
F*CK.
They've ruined it.
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Studio projections through Monday have come in for Maverick and a few other movies.
If they're right, then by Monday Maverick will have displaced Black Panther for 5th place all-time Domestic Box Office.
It will still be behind Frozen II Worldwide for 11th place by $16 Million, but that gap is closing quickly.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Studio projections through Monday have come in for Maverick and a few other movies.
If they're right, then by Monday Maverick will have displaced Black Panther for 5th place all-time Domestic Box Office.
It will still be behind Frozen II Worldwide for 11th place by $16 Million, but that gap is closing quickly.
OMG. Maverick might have done it!
I don't know what happened, and the official numbers aren't in yet, but the projections for Saturday and Sunday have now changed and put Maverick in 1st place on both days.
It's still going to be a nail-biter, but right now they're showing Maverick in 1st place for the weekend by $285k!
https://www.the-numbers.com/weekend-box-office-chart
That will be the first time in history that a movie hit 1st place on it's 15th weekend.
What a present to the movie on Saturday which was it's 100th day in the theaters.
And once Monday's numbers come in it should have taken 5th place from Black Panther in the all-time Domestic Box Office too.
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Other sites are already reporting on the Maverick Win.
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IndyWire:
Labor Day Box Office Shakeup: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is #1, ‘Spider-Man’ #3
The top four titles are in a completely new order after the wild card of a $3 Saturday.
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/09/box-office-shakeup-top-gun-maverick-
labor-day-weekend-1234758624/
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JoeBlo:
Box Office Shake-Up: Top Gun: Maverick flies to first place
https://www.joblo.com/box-office-shake-up-top-gun-maverick-flies-to-fi
rst/
JoeBlo also points out that Maverick is the first movie in history to place 1st on both Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend.
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Variety:
Bleak Box Office Battle: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Beats ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ in Labor Day Weekend Wasteland
https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/box-office-spider-man-rerelea
se-top-gun-maverick-battle-1235359820/
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RottenTomatoes
Weekend Box Office Results: Top Gun: Maverick Soars to Another Milestone
The biggest movie of the year swooped back into first place during a dismal holiday weekend that saw a pair of re-releases score top 10 finishes.
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/weekend-box-office-result
s-top-gun-maverick-soars-to-another-milestone/
It appears that The-Numbers was wrong when they said last week that if Maverick took 1st on it's 14th weekend it would be the first movie to ever do so. According to RottenTomatoes:
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First up, Maverick reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the box office in its 15th week of release, an achievement held in the modern era by the likes of only E.T., Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Back to the Future, and Titanic. That is quite the list for Tom Cruise to join, let alone Paramount, who now owns half the films on that list. Top Gun: Maverick also has outgrossed all those films, as well as every domestically released film ever, save for only four.
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It's official now. Maverick did indeed take 1st place for the weekend.
It also took first place on Monday with nearly 2 million, bringing it above Black Panther for 5th all time Domestic release.
Interestingly, Spider-Man: No Way Home took first place on Friday and made the predictions that it would top the chart for the weekend seem like a no-brainer. But after that it placed 4th on Saturday, 6th on Sunday and 5th on Monday, despite having 800+ theaters than every movie that placed above it all weekend except for when Beast beat it on Sunday (only 700 theaters more than Beast).
I know it's a re-released flick that wasn't in theaters all that long ago, but it was a juggernaut and an actual GOOD comic book flick. I certainly didn't expect it to take 3rd place for the weekend, and it appears that nobody else did either.
Maybe... just maybe... Superhero Fatigue is finally happening.
I'd love to see Disney Marvel and their dumb timeline for future movies crumble.
Let's bring back more real movies like Maverick.
Let's bring back the Movie Star instead of banking on IPs with a MultiVerse that just means the people portraying the characters don't matter at all and can be swapped out for somebody else at any time.
Tom Cruise really is the only one left right now. It doesn't have to be that way.
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