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That should read looking good for Thor

Marvel and Walt Disney’s Thor: Love and Thunder got off to a, uh, thunderous start at the domestic box office, pulling down $29 million in Thursday previews. That’s the second-best preview gross of the year behind the $36 million preview haul for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. That Sam Raimi-directed MCU sequel captured $90 million on Friday (including the Thursday previews) for a $187 million Fri-Sun domestic debut. If Taika Waititi’s Thor 4 plays likewise, we can expect a $73 million Friday and a $151 million opening weekend. While the mixed (for Marvel) reviews (69% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and (thus far) word of mouth may make the opening even more frontloaded, that would slightly surprise me.

The mixed word (including the notion that it’s an inessential MCU chapter) combined with the Disney+ factor (it’ll probably be “free” on that service after the first 45 days) may hurt post-debut legs. However, I’m guessing those who were excited to see it before the reviews dropped will still sample it over the weekend. Online chatter has arguably inflated the perception of negativity (even speaking as someone who didn’t like it). We’re still dealing with a popular franchise sequel averaging “three stars” among the current critical consensus. Thor: Love and Thunder, which stars Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson, is the last new four-quadrant, live-action kid-friendly offering between now and Dwayne Johnson’s DC Films flick Black Adam on October 21.

A Thursday-to-weekend multiplier like Doctor Strange 2, The Dark Knight Rises ($160 million from a $30.5 million Thursday-at-midnight gross in July 2012) and Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260 million/$50 million in 2021) gets Thor: Love and Thunder to over/under $155 million for the weekend. Legs closer to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ($177 million/$40 million in 2019), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part II ($141 million/$30 million in 2012) or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II ($169 million/$43 million in 2011) gets it to between $115 million and $135 million. However, legs like The Batman ($134 million/$22 million in 2022) or Black Widow ($80 million/$13 million in 2021) gets Thor 4 to a rock-solid over/under $175 million weekend gross.

Thor: Ragnarök opened with $123 million in November 2017, back before folks inexplicably expected every MCU movie to shatter all related box office records, and even a jump on par with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($146 million from $94 million) would get Thor 4 to $191 million, essentially tied with Doctor Strange 2’s best-case-scenario opening weekend. A jump on par with Iron Man 3 ($174 million from $128 million) gets it to $167 million, while a jump on par with Ant-Man and the Wasp (from $58 million seven years ago to $75 million four years ago) still gets it to $159 million. We should not automatically expect $175-$200 million opening weekends for every MCU standalone just because Black Panther di

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2022/07/06/thor-love-and-thunder-hammers-global-box-office-for-300-million-bow/

Squid you say the company will be gone By year end, yet 2 weeks ago, you said you would buy into cineworld if they win the court case. For gods sake man make up your mind

https://deadline.com/2022/03/cineworld-mooky-greidinger-intervie-ticket-pricing-debt-cineplex-1234981324/

How do you know they are buys & not sells ?

https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/top-gun-maverick-uk-june-box-office-1235308731/

Mooky worried from what he said the other day, unless it’s a bluf

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/07/03/box-office-minions-the-rise-of-gru-breaks-records-with-128-million-holiday-weekend/

If cineworld had collapsed it would of been leaked in the Sunday papers, it always does

Im13 when you put it like that, maybe 1 billon is achievable, unfortunately it won’t do anything for the share price. Alot on here talking about a RNS tomorrow morning good/ all bad

Can we really expect 1 billion in July ? With only a couple of films ?

One more day, one more film, would have got us to a billion

It’s a **** take, as lightyear basically was a disaster

https://deadline.com/2022/07/cineworld-fine-israel-distribution-1235055439/

As expected thanks to the Independence Day holiday weekend, Paramount and Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick continued to soar to infinity and beyond. Tom Cruise’s unstoppable legacy sequel earned another $7.15 million (-14%) to bring its domestic cume up to $545.6 million. That places it past the likes of Rogue One ($532 million), The Dark Knight ($534 million) and The Lion King ($543 million) to place 12th on the all-time domestic grossers list. We can expect another $27 million (-9%) over its sixth weekend and $34.5 million over the Fri-Mon holiday, bringing its domestic cume to a ridiculous $573.775 million by July 4. That’ll keep it in 12th place, temporarily behind Incredibles 2 ($608 million). It should be past $600 million by next Sunday or soon after, at which point it’s just a question of whether it ends closer to Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($620 million) and The Avengers ($623 million) or Jurassic World ($652 million) and Titanic ($659 million).

Kate Winslet And Leonardo DiCaprio In 'Titanic'
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio dancing in a scene from the film 'Titanic', 1997. (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images) GETTY IMAGES
In terms of “biggest sixth-weekend gross” milestones, it’ll be between Avatar ($34 million) and Titanic ($25 million) for second place. Speaking of Titanic, where’s our dance remix of “Hold My Hand”? American Sniper’s sixth weekend ($30.6 million) was its third weekend of wide release. Frozen’s $28 million sixth weekend (+45% from weekend five over the Christmas/New Year’s frame) was its fifth weekend of wide release (it opened at the El Capitan five days before its Thanksgiving wide release). Top Gun: Maverick is pulling grosses on par with the James Cameron holiday mega-hits, give or take inflation. I’d expect a more reasonable drop next weekend after the holiday and against Thor: Love and Thunder, but the family-centric Minions sequel/Despicable Me prequel did little harm to Maverick. Again, a key part of the film’s leggy success is that it’s playing to demographics who otherwise wouldn’t go to the movies at all. The sky is truly the limit as it likely tops $1.1 billion over the weekend.

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'Elvis COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURE
However, the rest of the top movies (with one obvious exception) are pulling their weight as well. Warner Bros.’ Elvis earned another $5.3 million (-58%) on its second Friday for a likely $17.5 million (-44%) Fri-Sun weekend and $22 million holiday frame. That’ll push the acclaimed and buzzy Baz Luhrmann-directed rock biopic past $70 million domestic by Monday night. Presuming a “normal” rate of descent (always a dangerous presumption as the breakouts over the last two years have been leggier than pre-Covid norms), the $85 million Austin Butler/Tom Hanks-led, 160-minute drama will end with over/under Dune’s $108 million finish. We’ll have overseas updates tomorrow, but it should be at around $115-$120 million for the global cume. The coming weeks (and the later territories)

129 mil is going on 4 days not 3 days, all good thou

Where does it say 129 million ?

100-110 million

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/07/02/movies-box-office-minions-the-rise-of-gru-48m-friday-despicable-me-universal-illumination/