***** Top Gun: Maverick *****
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, April 5, 2025 22:46
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No new stuff this weekend of note. Barbarian actually looks interesting, but is only going to get 2,340 theaters.
Spider-Man loses 722 theaters. Maverick loses 8 theaters.
Some claim that the $3 Saturday last week is why Maverick came out on top, but that doesn't really track with me. I would think the cheap price would bring in more family audiences and they'd have been going to Super Pets and Spider-Man instead of Maverick.
It is possible and even probable that Maverick takes first place again this weekend.
It's been losing to Bullet Train every day this week since Monday, but only by a couple of thousand bucks. And even though No Way Home was in nearly 4,000 theaters all week it was struggling to keep 5th place among Beast and Minions and finally fell to beast on Wednesday.
Those weekday numbers are pretty sad right now. Not one movie even beat $400k on Wednesday.
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A bit ago, I mentioned that Maverick was down to 3 shows per day at each of my local cinemas. The next week, it was back up to 7 per day between the 2. Today, Sunday, it is down to 6 again, then back to 7 for Tuesday.
I have been wondering when did Maverick Box Office surpass some of his other films. He has had some hits. Have not seen any mention of such.
Quote:It is too bad that Star Wars is not on that list - it was the first filmgoing phenomenon of this type. It was not expected to do well at the Box Office.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Other sites are already reporting on the Maverick Win.Quote:
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-
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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
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JoeBlo also points out that Maverick is the first movie in history to place 1st on both Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend.Quote:
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
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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
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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:Quote:
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.
None of those listed was a sequel, although Titanic could be argued as a remake.
I wonder what the list of sequels is like. Suspect big hitters were Back To The Future II, Aliens, Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Wrath of Khan, Home Alone 2, Lethal Weapon II, Road Warrior, Die Harder, Silence of the Lambs, Serenity II. Some of those would also be sequels which surpassed the originals. Not sure about Halloween II or slasher sequels.
Maybe the Dirty Harry sequel. U.S. Marshals did OK. Maybe Jason Bourne sequel. Or Hunger Games 2. Can't imagine The Two Towers, but maybe Harry Potter 2.
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Well... Maybe not.
Barbarian looks to have easily taken first place this weekend with a projected $10 Million even though it had 800 theaters less than anything else that wasn't new in the top five. (Word of mouth is attributed to its success this weekend. Though I really don't like the horror genre, this one did seem interesting to me. I'll probably watch it with my brother when he comes in town).
Some Bollywood flick with Shiva in the title managed second place with a projected $4.4 Million with only 810 theaters.
Bullet Train looks to have taken 3rd back and gotten ahead of Maverick again with $3.25 Million over Maverick's 4th place finish of $3.17 Million. (These are the only two flicks close enough to swap places after the real numbers come in this week).
DC League of Super Pets took fifth place with $2.835 Million. It had a strong 2nd place showing on Sunday that kept it in the top five.
Maverick isn't going anywhere for a while, but it's days at the top are over. It will probably hang out in a decreasing amount of theaters for a few more months like Joker and No Way Home did until it's finally retired.
It did manage to overtake Frozen II for 11th place in the worldwide Box Office sometime last week, and is 5th place Domestic.
They DO add re-release money to old releases, so there's no way it's moving up any further on the Domestic charts with No Way Home pulling even further away with its $108 Million advantage at 3rd place, and Avatar getting its own re-release next week to buffer it's $55 Million advantage.
On the Worldwide scale, Maverick would need to make $61 Million more to take 10th place from Furious 7, which isn't looking very likely.
It was a good run though.
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Finally saw Maverick tonight.
Pretty darn good.
I was surprised to see so much diversity and representation in it, since in all this time talking about how it was doing in the box office I don't remember ever hearing anybody mentioning it... including the people I knew personally that saw it and loved it.
Gee... It's as if you can have a strong female character that's likable as well as a mix of races in a movie together without anybody saying anything negative about it when the movie is enjoyable and you're not race or sex swapping because you have no writing talent, your movie sucks, and you shouldn't even be in Hollywood.
Imagine that, huh?
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I finally got a bunch of tasks caught up today, and thought I might see if a movie could fit into my schedule.
Noticed that Maverick has "still" - or again - got 7 showings in town, split between 2 cinemaplexes.
The bigger one, with 18 screens, has 4 showings of Maverick. This venue has 2 of the Super Dooper Uber Extremist Ultra Deluxe screens, which are also the largest seating capacities.
Maverick has both of it's matinee shows in these screens. That is 2 out of the total 8 showings these screens have in a day.
So this film, in it's umpteenth weeks of release - or is it 20? - is commanding the allocation of 2 screenings in the largest rooms in the building.
The other 2 films, with 3 Super showings each in the day, are Woman King, and Pearl (the sequel/prequel to X).
This cinema is showing only 19 different films among 18 screens.
Total of 57 separate showings. WK has the most with 7.
I'm not counting Maverick out just yet.
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CONTEXT: I would never watch James Cordin in any other situation. I'm fully aware of his gross Leftist bias and pro-Covid-jab stance just like all the other unfunny late night shills...
But that being said, watch this one without the context. Just think of it as Tom Cruise scaring the hell out of his chubby friend. There's no politics in this 15 minute segment so it's easy to do. My friend sent it to me after we watched Maverick and I found it quite enjoyable.
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I noticed this past Monday that Maverick is now streaming digital.
So I checked my local cinema showings. Still 6 showings, 3 on each side of the city. Just missing the last late night showing.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I noticed this past Monday that Maverick is now streaming digital.
So I checked my local cinema showings. Still 6 showings, 3 on each side of the city. Just missing the last late night showing.
Yeah. I believe I heard that that it made a record on the streaming side of things.
It still pulled in a respectable $145k on a Wednesday, and over $1.6 Million over last weekend.
I'm pulling for it to break $1.5 Billion before it leaves theaters. It's got $40 Million more to go. If it were dependent on just the US box office that probably won't happen, but maybe it's still playing some places internationally too?
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Quote:Still has 3 shows per day at my large local Cinemaplex - same as Woman King, Avatar. With 18 screens, this theater is showing 21 different films.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I noticed this past Monday that Maverick is now streaming digital.
So I checked my local cinema showings. Still 6 showings, 3 on each side of the city. Just missing the last late night showing.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm pulling for it to break $1.5 Billion before it leaves theaters. It's got $40 Million more to go. If it were dependent on just the US box office that probably won't happen, but maybe it's still playing some places internationally too?
It must still be getting some decent help from overseas.
Just three days after I wrote that, it's just shy of $24 Million away from cracking $1.5 Billion. Only $1.6 Million of that came from the US box office this weekend, which landed it 10th place here.
Looks like the woke shit isn't playing well outside of America, if it's even playing at all.
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