It’s hardly A New Era for Men with another Doctor Strange weekend at the box office
Everything Everywhere hits a milestone for A24 films, but the sorcerer supreme is still on top
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Everything Everywhere All At Once has already earned the big box office-related headlines for the weekend, with it becoming the highest-grossing film released by A24 in the U.S. and the sixth highest-grossing film of this week. It barely dropped at all from last week, having already barely dropped from the week before, and it was practically neck-and-neck with Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and Men (in its debut) this past weekend. That all means that it will probably continue to make money, which we’ve been saying now for nine weeks.
But let’s go elsewhere on the charts: Have y’all heard of this Doctor Strange guy? Apparently he’s In The Multiverse Of Madness and added $31 million to its total gross, which is now $342 million after three. That’s nice, but what’s even nicer is its per-screen average, which was $6,969 this weekend. That’s the funny sex number!
In second place is Downton Abbey: A New Era, which opened at $16 million with a big rollout (3,820 screen is second only to Doctor Strange), proving that there is at least still some room in theaters for Serious Adult Movies For Adults… to the extent that that’s what Downton Abbey is. It doesn’t have any sorcerers supreme in it, at least, which is enough for some people.
We’re more than 200 words deep here, so let’s speed it up: The Bad Guys made $6 million and has a total of $74 after five weeks. Sonic 2 has made $3.9 million and has $181 million after seven weeks. Men (with Jessie Buckley) opened at $3.2 million. The aforementioned Everything Everywhere made $3.1 million thanks to the raccoon hiding under its hat, and it’s sitting at $52 million.
Then, Fantastic Beasts continues to fall, as do Firestarter, The Lost City, and The Northman, all of which made under $2 million. The only other newcomer on the chart is Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules, which came in at 13th place with only $765,000—all of which came from people who are currently on their second or third bout with COVID and are under strict instructions from their legal representatives to not say where they were last January 6! Now that’s an achievement.
The full top 10 list, sans jokes, is available below (courtesy of Box Office Mojo).
- Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
- Downton Abbey: A New Era
- The Bad Guys
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2
- Men
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore
- Firestarter
- The Lost City
- The Northman
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I don’t really understand the benefit of baiting MCU fans with the headline but then referring other films as “Serious Adult Movies For Adults”. That’s pretty backhanded. Sam Barsanti, you are the worst. Why do you hate your readers so much?
What are you even talking about
Barsanti’s hatred for his readers has been his greatest defining characteristic throughout his tenure here.
Look, I’m not defending him, but know that Sam Barsanti doesn’t hate his readers as much as he hates himself.
I mean, Marvel movies aren’t Serious Adult Movies for Adults. They can still be enjoyable, but c’mon – they’re being advertised on cereal boxes.
Aye, but Downton is in no way a more serious film for adults than any MCU film is.
Downtown Abbey is a big budget soap opera. But everyone has a British accent, which gives it fifty extra intellectual gravitas points in America.
As much I as I enjoyed both DSITMOM and DAANE (woo, acronyms), I can’t argue. Downton was basically peak Downton: low-stakes conflicts resolved with little effort, pretty people looking pretty in pretty costumes at pretty locations, Fellowes’s continued fellating of the aristocracy. It’s well-constructed and I do have fondness for the material owing to watching the show a decade ago, but it really is just feel-good fluff.I think the potential harm from the pro-aristocracy stuff is limited, though; while we do have a huge problem with capitalism (and the implicit belief that a few powerful rich people should rule everyone else), I think the details here (stuffy English types living in basically a castle on a huge working estate with a huge coterie of servants) are distant enough from the modern experience (at least in the U.S.) as to not be contributing materially toward anyone here thinking that’s the way it ought to be. Our own form of manorialism is office, factory, and service-industry wage slavery, which (while still bad) looks very different.
Very true. But would he describe a Disney or Pixar animated film that way? Those are aimed mostly at kids. I grew up reading comics & mostly enjoy the MCU flicks but couldn’t care less about the comment or take offense to it. But it truly was a dig at the adult geeky types.
Breaking Away was on a cereal box
Crazy to me that Lost City still made that much when I saw it on an airplane weeks ago. Movie release dates have gotten weird. I’m for it.Can’t wait till I can see X, Everything Everywhere, and Men at home. One of those is this week (for $4.99)
X is really great. And yeah, I’m waiting for Everything and Men too.
Its free on Amazon.
It’s free with Paramount, not Amazon, though if you subscribe to Paramount you can view it free on Amazon
It’s only the Age of Men when King Edward’s on the throne.
Now THIS would have been a great slideshow!
Hey Sam, you forgot the word “domestic” when you referred to Dr. Strange 2’s “total gross.” The movie has earned over $800 million world-wide; it’s earned more money overseas than it has domestically. To be fair, though, the Box Office Mojo link you included takes the reader to the Domestic chart. But clarity is good, eh? So clearly state “domestic gross” in the future.
Like this asshole reads the comments.
Thanks. I’m lazy, but I was thinking that if that’s the global BO, it’s not doing well.
“The sorcerer supreme is still on top”Doctor Strange is not the sorcerer supreme. Admittedly the sorcerer supreme is in the film, but given that they aren’t the title character I don’t think that’s what you meant.
Actually he meant a sorcerer with tomatoes and sour cream.
Add guac and he’s the Sorcerer Grande.
He has been the Sorcerer Supreme in the comics
He has, but he hasn’t been in the films as yet. I assume Barsanti was just being lazy.
He was, though? As of the end of the first Doctor Strange movie, he was the Sorcerer Supreme (and then up through Infinity War), but then it went to Wong when Strange was gone during the Blip. At least, that’s what I thought happened.
Oh, possibly you’re right. He certainly isn’t in this film, is the point.
My other reply seems to have disappeared.I’m pretty sure he was never officially Supreme. He was possibly the presumptive top dog at the end of his first film but no successor to Tilda Swinton’s Sorcerer Supreme was named until Wong got the job.I’m not ashamed to admit I checked the TV Tropes page to be sure:https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/MCUDoctorStrange
Let’s nerd out!I think the TV Tropes page is a little ambiguous about it (assuming this is the passage you’re referring to):
Spider-Man: No Way Home finally confirms that he’s not the Sorcerer Supreme; Wong is. Although Strange clearly got the aptitude and claims he’d have got the job if not for the minor technicality of his having been dead at the time the appointment was made.Here’s the dialogue from that scene (which I just transcribed from a YouTube clip):
PETER: [to Strange] Wait, I thought you were the Sorcerer Supreme?STEPHEN: No, he got it on a technicality, ‘cause I Blipped for five years.PETER: Oh. [to Wong] Well congratulations.STEPHEN: If I’d been here then I would have—
WONG: —burned the place down.That’s all that’s said about it, as far as I know, and it could easily be interpreted to mean either:there was no Sorcerer Supreme after the Ancient One died, and by the time a new one was appointed, Strange was snapped, so Wong was picked as SS
Strange was the SS (having been appointed some time between DS1 and IW), but then he got Blipped, and so Wong got promoted when it was clear Strange wasn’t coming back
Either way it’s unclear who exactly appoints someone as Sorcerer Supreme, since none of the MCU films have mentioned or depicted any kind of sorcerer authority who does such things: As far as the first film shows, TAO is the SS; there’s Mordo (who seems to be basically her second-in-command); there’s the Sanctum masters; and then everyone else is in some kind of vague hierarchy.
It seems odd to me that there would have been no SS between when TAO died and Infinity War; that’s a period of almost two years. Strange was carrying the Eye of Agamotto around when Infinity War starts, which is a pretty big deal and probably not something anyone except the SS would be allowed to do.
Fun fact: All three of these actors are English even though two of them are playing Americans and one is playing a… well, I don’t think Wong’s nationality/ethnicity has been specified in the MCU, but comics!Wong is Tibetan. And I bet they won’t bring that up in the MCU as long as they’re still trying to earn from the China market. (Either way he’s not English.)