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Shazabo,
Worldwide very possibly yes.
However in North America box office for month I would say zero (or as close as possible to that) chance of $1bn from just these 2.

Might we see close on $0.5bn in first 10 days of this month!?

Minions EST 4 day opening in region of $130m will then have full week to add.
Thor release 7 July with forecast opening weekend $135 - $185m

So from those two alone maybe $350 - $400m in that period!?
Still got Maverick, Elvis, Jurassic all adding pretty well.
Plus any other smaller releases we have.

Inflation is one factor.
The other bigger factor is that it is the big films still going to cinema.
The average would very quickly fall of we had "the missing movies" from regular years pre COVID.

To its benefit we have a 5 full weekends month Cruis.
Strong carry overs from June into first maybe even first couple weeks.
Minions and Thor both having full month to accumulate.
Let's see where we get.
Yes, it would be nice to have more (we have covered that issue many times)

Well if we are to see continued recovery we want and should expect $1bn+ for July.
Regularly one of of not the strongest months of the year.

While most of us are disappointed in share price and many/most are varying degrees of happy with recent box office. It is worth keeping in mind the perspective i.e. our best month since re-openings is/was still lowest June since 2007 and if we are even more realistic with ourselves and consider inflation and passage of time it's probably lowest since c. 2000.

Don't get me wrong it's a massive improvement from where we have been and hopefully has us nearing company targets.
Let's see June strength continue this month and through H2 :-)

So for all that said yesterday was the end of Cineworld it appears you got your latest date wrong.

By previously issuing an RNS that they are in discussions with Regal dissenting shareholders I think that's effectively the base covered regards paying by 30 June.

It's now officially biggest month since re-openings, with two days to add.
Very close to the magical $1bn indeed, a 31 day month would have likely got us there ;-)

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/month/?ref_=bo_nb_di_secondarytab

I am a big kid at heart so will go see it Cruis.
Plus, as we are still only getting 1 (sometimes 2) releases per week I am seeing everything at moment.
While still great value (unlimited card), it's a lot less so on 1 movie per week compared to 4/5 a week often pre COVID.

https://www.boxofficepro.com/weekend-box-office-forecast-minions-the-rise-of-gru-could-leverage-4th-of-july-holiday-to-score-best-family-driven-debut-since-2019/

Then it's Thor following weekend so even better.

Thanks antmoss44 :-)

Mountainous,
Had our differences but both want same thing and we generally keep it civil between each other :-)

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/4465917/aberdeen-imax-scrapped/

Couldnt read article as not subscribed.

I also feel we had something on this a little while back. May even ha e been either in company accounts or financial update call .
It's just a vague memory I have so sorry can't be specific.
Driven man that was/is looking to be number 1 in the world. No great surprised to see few of these types of 'incidents".

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjfzgkf59

Clearly details case. It wasn't about not showing kids films. It was about not allowing rivals in Israel to screen 7 films.

Suspended sentence so no prison.
Fine which will be small beer against all our other issues.
Whether playing the game or not his statement regards a recovery " being uncertain" isn't most upbeat we would all like to hear.
Though like the positive speil at other times I put little on it.
We will know Cineplex outcome in good time.
Box office will also answer itself.
We have just had two consecutive good months so signs of hope there.

https://deadline.com/2022/06/cineeurope-preview-international-box-office-distribution-exhibition-1235048360/

Still expect an RNS in short term as we have the Regal Dissenting shareholders balance of payment due before end of month (company in discussions to further extend that deadline which already come at a financial cost).

Hi Cruis,
Buzz was a let down to be fair. It certainly is no Toy Story.
With that in mind it is (so far) performing about on par with Disney/Pixar other recent efforts in similar field.

Saw Black Phone last night so that's me up to date with the limited releases we still have.
Good enough film, but it doesn't add the serious money.
Happy with May and June overall.

Thor looks loghthearted silly fun so interested to see how strongly or otherwise that performs.

Top Gun blasting it's way to $1bn+ is nice.

Top Gun and Jurassic seem to be holding fairly well so hopefully continue to add reasonably in remainder of month.

Buzz underperforming badly.

Elvis and Black Phone the final weekends releases aren't forecast for such big numbers.

So, I dont see us hitting the $1bn some reports had earlier and some on here thought possible/probable. (It was probably my own absolute upper limit if EVERYTHING performed well and Buzz falling short is probably going to prove most of that shortfall).
Feel we should see $900m or there abouts. With some strong performance maybe even get just ahead of December's $921m (might be a stretch now though continued strong carry over from Top Gun and over performance from Elvis might, just might get us there).
If we see c. $900m then that's good area to be at giving us c. 80% of 10 year pre COVID average for month .

Then onto July which also holds real promise.
Before couple weaker looking months again (though often are).

We had similar trumpeting last October!?
Last month and this month are encouraging, but let's see when we are at, near or past 2019 levels for say a quarter or a half.

Not the odd individual weekend or week.

This would probably be our best "investment" ha ha.