I know you already have a lot of charts, but I was wondering if you would consider putting in a chart that shows the movies that lost the most theaters. It could be a good chart to go along with your local market movies chart.
I absolutely love the success of Top Gun Maverick, but I get even more excited when little movies with low budgets have the same long lasting appeal. Does anyone remember Little Miss Sunshine's great success in theatres?
Yes. And I saw it there. Some of it was filmed in my city. I’m seeing Maverick for the twelfth time tonight, while making sure I supported Marcel, Vengeance, The Black Phone and Nope so far this summer.
@@toddhollen Maybe, but does it matter? The man can belong to whatever religion he wants to. He’s providing people quality entertainment without ever once trying to push his beliefs on his audience. I will always respect that.
I am going to go see it for my second time tonight. When I went to preview the available seats, I was so surprised at how few seats were available. I agree, I think it's going to have a late summer push and even into September!
@@heatheraggus7501 It’s a trade off though. Coming back to premium screens while others (including theaters in the chain promoting that return) are dropping it entirely.
It's not a good idea to take his movies for granite. Sometimes your predictions can be quite rocky. I think you just have to be a bit boulder with your predictions.
Hey, Dan, have you considered some way for people to ask you box office questions that you can answer during this show? It wouldn't have to be a big part of this show, you could answer 3-5 questions. Also, not talking live but rather just somewhere we could post the question before you do the show and you could answer questions that you liked/thought were relevant. Just a thought! Love box office stuff, thanks for your hard work on it!
@@DanMurrellMovies You could post in the community tab on RU-vid a couple of days before the show and people could put questions in the comments section of that post. Then you can pick the ones you want to answer from there.
@@scottbarkley496 Fallout was the 6th installment in a well established action franchise (Mission Impossible). Plus it was released before the pandemic and in China. Maverick is a sequel to a 36 year old movie with no Chinese release while the box office is still recovering from being shut down for months.
Paramount is doing a fan appreciation event this weekend so you might see Top Gun Maverick back in the top 5 next week. I already bought 2 tickets for this weekend.
This has been a confounding year for me. Traditionally, children's movies always perform well at the box office because there's nothing parents love more than throwing their kids in front of something that entertains them for two hours. This has been true from the most thoughtful and moving movies like The Incredibles to the most thoughtLESS and aggravating "films" like...anything Minions. Yet for some reason both Lightyear and now Super-Pets have underperformed. And I'm scratching my head as to why outside of pandemic woes.
I went to a drive in for the first time during the pandemic. loved it. went several more times. but now there's just none closest to me. I would love if more drive ins were built much closer to people, and.or pop up drive ins. super fun.
I was thinking about the 45-day streaming/VOD release strategy and was wondering if you'd consider introducing a chart to track how much a movie (that didn't go to streaming after 45 days) made?
I love seeing it. I hope this thing makes another $1 Billion. It won't happen but it deserves every penny. This was such a return to the old kind of blockbuster. Not one that had to hinge entirely off of being a superhero film or some other kind of impossible genre(fantasy, space adventure, etc)
Fire of Love was fantastic and Marcel was just so sweet. May go see the Leonard Cohen doc this week, but we are seeing A Fistfull of Dollars tonight. Thank you Belcourt Theater!
Waiting for this video. I always like your presentation of the BO charts. Plus you are featuring TGM and its milestones all the time. TGM is the only movie I have watched (twice!) during this pandemic.
Here's what looks to be the final Summer's Top Ten Domestic Box Office List: Top Gun: Maverick Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Jurassic World Dominion Minions: The Rise of Gru (should nudge out Thor: L&T) Thor: Love and Thunder Elvis Nope - ~120M (just squeaks by Lightyear) Lightyear Bullet Train - ~$95M The Black Phone - ~$90M - (here's your only imperfection) . Where the Crawdads Sing - ~$80M (runner-up) DC League of Super-Pets - ~$75M (won't even make it to 11th place)
Dude I like how more fair minded you and factual you are with you’re takes. Grace from BTT was making it seem like Bullet Train opening at $30Mil was gonna ruin careers and shit, I didn’t even love the move all that much either but seems crazy to say it was a complete disappointment
Dan, on the topic of streaming, why DONT these companies put the films out for a wide theatrical release to maximize their profits. Like you said with Knives Out 2. More recently, I wonder why ‘PREY’ wasn’t released theatrically. And looking towards the future with Zack Snyder’s ‘Rebel Moon’. I’d love to see that one on the big screen in particular. In my head, theatrical releases could do a lot of good for companies like Netflix.
The thinking has been that the exclusivity of these movies will pay off more in new subscriptions and keeping subscribers than a theatrical release would. I think that theory is now being put to the test.
Top gun maverick was in my cinema from early release 6 straight weeks during summer left and literally came back to my cinema for the last 3 weeks of Summer man im so happy seen it 13 times going 2 more times Lmao i love top gun maverick hate to say it Only Avatar is going to be the only other movie this year that i could see catching top gun maverick in the box office
Actually my family who lives in Toronto don't even say the O at the end. They pronounce is "Torana". So the T is silent and they say the O as an A. It sounds right with their Canadian accent but funny when I try and say it haha.
Would PFV be more informative if a factor was added that takes into account the length of the show? You mentioned that one of the shows had a high PFV of over 13, since it was short...
@@DanMurrellMovies I don't think I'm articulating my question properly. I meant some less tangible metric that has to do with the likelihood someone would sit through the whole thing *because* of the runtime... It's probably something a person can't really track or put a number on. For instance: If I understand the way PFV works, a PFV of 12 on a show that has 25 seasons, 12 shows each season, each show 25 minutes is *so massively much higher* than a PFV of 12 on a single 25 minute documentary.
One Piece Film red premiered in Japan last weekend (it premiered on Saturday, so only a 2 day weekend) but it grossed 2.25B yen or ~16.67M USD, so it should have made the international top 5.
I do my best to find every movie I can but international movie box office is hard to find, especially on Mondays. Stuff falls through the cracks sometimes
From what I can tell, my local theaters are doing away with it next week. If so, that’ll hurt it if it’s widespread. Otherwise, I would agree. I want to see it get the that five spot. Cinemark Theaters are promoting its return to its XD screens for the 12-14 but it’s not happening in my area at all.
What Top Gun Maverick is doing is I N S A N E. But what is more important is that it shows that blockbusters should not only aim at kids and teens. There is an older audience that is thirsty for quality blockbusters, and if producers and creators fulfill this thirst they will be rewarded.
Continuing the trend of self-writing Nope jokes: "Is it going to get knocked out of the summer box office chart?" "Nope." "Have I seen it?" "Nope." (It comes out on August 12th here in the UK.)
I grew up loving the Master of Disguise and a few years back decided to watch with my roommate, who also loved it growing up. I just have to say to my parents, I'm so sorry I liked this movie so much as a kid. It is absolutely awful.
The absolute slander of The Master of Disguise (2002) by the masses is something that I just cannot ignore. I was 9 years old when this Masterpiece came out and probably about 10 when it came out on DVD; where it was subsequently watched AT LEAST 5 times on a school trip to the Kennedy Space Center and back. The developmental impact that Mr. Turtle had on my life cannot be understated - I would not be the man I am today without him, biting people's noses off and spitting them back onto their faces is a regular occurrence in my life to this day. The Master of Disguise (2002) is a 6/5, 11/10, A++, 101% movie and anyone who says otherwise is blind and deaf. Thank you.
It's going to be an interesting race next weekend. Which movie grosses higher (domestic): Thor: L&T, Minions, or Top Gun: Maverick. NOPE might not be the top of this group. It'd be a kick IMO if Top Gun: Maverick beats 'em all.
Numbers for Monday: NOPE = $1.091; Minions = $1.09M; Top Gun: Maverick = $1.056M; Thor = $1.001M. Lookslike it's going to be a 4-way heat between these movies. Thor in the most movie theaters (3,400). Top Gun: Maverick in the fewest (2,760).
Friday's numbers are out. Top Gun is $400K clear of NOPE, $500K clear of Thor 4, and $600K of Minions. Top Gun is only $15K short of Justice League Super Pets despite being in over 600+ fewer theaters. It's got a real shot at 2nd place for the weekend.
Top Gun re-entered 421 theaters in its 12th weekend! They gave out some goofy poster for those who went. Blew NOPE, Thor: L&T, and Minions outta water. Even took down Justice League of Super Pets by less than $50K to finish 2nd. If Beast (Idris Elba) wasn't coming out this next weekend...
That's why Tom is the greatest action hero of all time. And it's about time he has a billion dollar movie. The guy risks life and limb and doesn't use stunt doubles so deserves respect. Plus he doesn't use green screens and carries the movie.
top gun maverick just does not know when to quit. i always look at it and think i would love to see this movie take the number 1 spot for all time. and each week it gets closer and closer as it is running out of release time...but remarkable it still has a chance absoulty crazy how well it has resonated with the audeince to keep going like this.
If Thor 4 is barely profitable, then is The Gray Man at -200 million? Because Thor 4 will still go on to D+. I hear: The budget should be lower. Also, pay the VXF and union crew more. And the original comic creators more. But spend less. But make sure it's a bigger hit than the last one.
To be fair: * The budget is very high without any visible improvement compared to other MCU movies - that generally means mismanagement rather than overestimating interest * the VFX houses issue is more being overworked and unreasonable deadlines and last minute changes, none of which they get paid for according to what we hear (perhaps at least part of the Thor budget issue is them getting that payment for that reworking though?) * Original creators commonly get, if anything, a *split* of $5000 for a more than $1,000,000,000 box office movie. For a stupidly low budget for an MCU movie of $100M, that's 0.005% spent for creating all the things getting adapted. That's more than pitiful, it's bizarrely petty and insulting, and the budget wouldn't be noticably affected at all by giving 100x as much, and could easily absorb 1000x as much.
Is anyone really signing up for Netflix or sticking with it to watch these generic super-expensive action movies? It's pretty much always been the series (originally the Marvel stuff, then original stuff like Stranger Things and other adaptations like Sandman) that have made me get Netflix or keep it. I'd say they'd be better off spending the budget of one of these £200 million blockbuster wannabes on 3 or 5 or 10 interesting movies in different genres or 1-2 more "prestige" series.
Just wanted to say I appreciate the continued reviews of all different movies. Sadly after nearly a decade, I just unsubscribed to both SJU and Fandom Ent. Their coverage is just so one sided, and missing so many great films and TV series. No mention of Top Gun Maverick whatsoever since the film came out. No review, no commentary, probably won't even be an honest trailer. I know you still have many friends there, and they may not be able to control the topics they are told to discuss, but I can now understand why you went your own way.
Seeing Master of Disguise in the top five gives me such flashbacks! It was my favorite movie when I was a little kid, and when I found out how hated it was when I became an adult, I was so sad!
Am I not turtle enough for the turtle club? I think you mean Master of Disguise is in the running for the best movie of all time. Lol, love your channel.
I'd be curious to see a chart on the legs movies have based on the streaming services that they're set to go on... Like how good are a movie's legs if it's set to appear on Disney+ compared to movies that are on less popular streaming services? The thing is, Disney+ is 1 of the top 4 streaming services, so there would be less of an urgency to see movies that will soon be on it (beyond perhaps the excitement that comes w/ opening wknd), vs. movies which will appear on less popular subscription services like Spider-Man (Starz) or Top Gun (Paramount+). Maybe a chart that ranks post-opening wknd box office (either raw dollars or a % of the movies' overall box office) according to the subscription service the movie eventually appears on. I'm guessing movies that appear on Disney+ will be low on this ranking b/c Disney+ is among the most popular of the streaming services, & b/c it's known that their movies will be on their services (vs. a movie like Spider-Man in which the general public may not necessarily know which service it will eventually appear on...).
Damn, If I would’ve known ET was going to be re released for IMAX I would’ve tried to figure something out sooner!! Love that movie though ET used to terrify me as a little kid 😂 As always thanks for the charts Dan!
If you really think about it, Top Gun: Maverick is basically the Titanic of this century. It's a film that I am sure no one thought would make the amount of money it did regardless of who was behind the camera. Titanic is a 3.5 hour film about a romance between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet with the real life boat sinking at the end and Top Gun: Maverick is a sequel to an action film that by all means wasn't really a huge hit. I had said at one point that we may never see another Titanic like movie at the box office again (a movie that's not big IP or Star Wars or Marvel/DC) and man was I wrong. Top Gun is this generations Titanic.
I remember seeing Master of Disguise when I was about 12 and having a fun time with it. It's cheesy as can be, but as a kid I liked all the creative costumes and enough of the goofy jokes to enjoy it. It was a random movie that my friend's dad brought home from the library on VHS, so it probably helped that my expectations were appropriately low.
@@jonrahproductions "jonrahproductions 55 minutes ago World wide just covers all films. Do you want him to do a chart for every country or something?" - No....but I do want you to re-read my comment and actually understand it 😉
It’s a tricky situation. I have excluded one-market films from things like the 365 Day Club. But to cover the world market and not cover China, the world’s first or second largest film market, would be to ignore a huge part of the worldwide picture. And I really don’t want to do China-specific segment.
@@DanMurrellMovies Thank you for your response Dan. I agree that its a tricky situation, and glad that you exclude one-market films from things like the 365 Day Club. The numbers are just not reliable for the Chinese market alone. I'd be interested to know how these films fare in countries with large Chinese populations like Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, US, etc. China apparently just surpassed the total number of screens as the US. I am guessin that most of these are "multi-plexes" where the Americans would still have many single screen cinemas in many parts of the country. So not certain how many cinemas are in each country. The two best per capita film markets are still US and Canada (often grouped together as 'domestic', as you know). India is increasingly releasing their films abroad, in countries like the UK, Canada, and US. I think China should be doing the same if it wants to be included in rankings and so on.
Hey Dan, not sure if you know but in August there are 2 anime movies set for American release Inu-Oh on Aug. 12th & Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero on Aug. 19th. Also a number of Studio Ghibli films are getting re-releases in the next few months.
I'm shocked, I couldn't believe it. Who expected a movie like Top Gun Maverick making this kinda money, even outgrossing a big movie like Infinity War, only domestically, but still that's huge, a movie reaching the $600 million mark in the U.S box office is incredible. I almost lost hope, thought the box office would never be the same because of the COVID, but this movie made me believe there's still hope in the box office, since 2019 after No Way Home, three years ago, Top Gun Maverick is the first and only film of 2022 made over $1 billion. Who expected that? Not even Jurassic World Dominion and Dr Strange in the Multi Universe did
I think the reason why the Marvel films don't have the same longevity on Disney Plus is because people watch them as soon as they are available, so there's less viewers watching in the later weeks.
I wonder if it’s worth mentioning now when a Chinese movie is also produced by Hong Kong, or are they interchangeable due to the mainland’s influence? I recognized there’s some major Hong Kong talent involved in Warriors of Future, like Louis Koo, Lau Ching-wan and Carina Lau. These are talented veterans who have worked with some all-time great HK filmmakers like Wong Kar-wai or Johnnie To, but it seems like it’s no longer possible, or at leach much less likely, to be able to make the same kinds of movies they did before.
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