Hello everyone,
BOX OFFICE: “Toy Story 5” is still going strong. It passed $200 million in just 5 days and made another $70 million this past weekend. Domestically, it will pass $300 million by today (11 days after it opened). Meanwhile, Supergirl DISAPPOINTED making just $37 million which is worse that the worst Marvel opening weekends (“The Marvels” made $46 million, “Morbius” made $39 million). The other new movie “Jackass Best and Last” underperformed with an opening weekend of just $8.5 million which is the worst opening weekend of all the “Jackass” movies.
Total domestic weekend made $155 million which is down approx. 33% from the previous weekend.
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: “Toy Story 5” is also continuing to do strong internationally passing $585 million worldwide. “Supergirl” also disappointed worldwide with a worldwide gross of just $68 million this past weekend. “Michael” is now at $977 million so it’s the biggest movie based on a true story (not counting “Titanic” which is only PARTIALLY based on a true story). It just passed “Oppenheimer”.
OTHER NEWS:
- Thanks to “Toy Story 5”, Disney has now passed a total gross of $3 BILLION with the year halfway through.
- The rerelease of “Avengers Endgame” this September 25th will now officially be called “Avengers: Endgame Encore” due to a few additional scenes added to it which, according to reports, will connect it to “Avengers Doomsday”
LITTLE BIT OF HUMOR: A few weeks ago, there was controversy about Lupita Nyong’o in “The Odyssey”. This past week it was Elliot Page – the first time he has worked with Christopher Nolan since “Inception” – in “The Odyssey”
Except the rumors got the character he’s playing wrong. It was announced he’s playing “Sinon”, not “Achilles”.
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