Top Gun: Maverick flies past The Bob’s Burgers Movie at the weekend box office
They'd have to sell a lot of Burgers Of The Day to match Maverick's haul
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As foreshadowed a few days ago, Top Gun: Maverick has indeed had a massive opening weekend at the box office, taking the number one spot with ease and handily setting a new record for the opening of a Tom Cruise movie—and if it keeps up this pace, it will also handily set a new record for Memorial Day weekend. Counting just the regular weekend days, because Monday hasn’t happened yet, Maverick has made $124 million. That’s a smaller debut than Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, but it’s certainly the biggest opening for a non-superhero film in quite some time. Granted, it’s not like Top Gun: Maverick is some kind of serious adult drama, but if you’re one of these internet people who bases their entire personality on thinking that the MCU is Bad, then we hope you’re happy.
Speaking of the good doctor, he fell nearly 50 percent from last week down to only $16 million, a paltry addition to the $370 million total that The Multiverse Of Madness is sitting at after four weeks. That’s a ton of money (though not Spider-Man: No Way Home money), so it’ll be interesting to see how Top Gun goes in the next few weeks before Thor: Love And Thunder arrives.
The other big debut this weekend, The Bob’s Burgers Movie, opened to $12.6 million. At the risk of being… overly realistic, it probably won’t make a ton more than that. On another “it’ll be interesting to see” note, though, it’ll be interesting to see how it continues to fare against the fourth place movie, Downton Abbey: A New Era, which has made $28 million after two weeks. (They’re both TV show tie-ins, and also Downton Abbey exists as a TV show in the Bob’s Burgers universe, though it’s not as popular as American knock-off Winthorpe Manor.)
Save for a big fall from Men (down 62 percent to ninth place and $1.2 million), the rest of the chart for this weekend is nearly identical to the last few weekends, with Everything Everywhere All At Once falling more slowly than everything else and sitting at almost $60 million in its 10th week. The third newcomer in the top 10, coming in right at the bottom, is Indian film F3: Fun And Frustration, which made $1 million from only 400 theaters. That’s a better per-screen average than everything but the top three!
Here’s the full top 10 list from Box Office Mojo.
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
- The Bob’s Burgers Movie
- Downton Abbey: A New Era
- The Bad Guys
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- The Lost City
- Men
- F3: Fun And Frustration
24 Comments
There’s a fucking Downton Abbey movie!?
This isn’t even the first! There was one in 2019! I preferred the show when it was called Upstairs, Downstairs and was made in the 20th century.
I generally preferred the 20th century full stop. This one kind of sucks so far.
Well, the parts of the 20th century I personally experienced, (born in 1970) sure. Not sure what I’d think if I experienced one or more of the World Wars.
Don’t forget Gosford Park from 2001, one of Robert Altman’s last films, and written by the creator of Downton Abbey (which, according to the wiki article, was originally intended to be a spinoff of that movie before becoming its own thing).
Downton Abbey in the Multiverse of Polite Dinnertime Conversation.
Downton Abbey: VioletIn which Maggie Smith has to train a bunch of new aristocrats how to do whatever the hell they do in Downton Abbey
HIGHWAY TO THE DOWAGER ZONE
What? Someone say “inevitable porn parody”?!
we hope you’re happy
Wouldn’t that require that the MCU perform worse, not merely that a non-MCU film get 2nd place?
Top Gun isn’t even in 2nd place for highest opening this year. That spot goes to The Batman, which beat Top Gun’s opening by around $20 million. So superheroes in general are doing just fine.
OH NO! That means it’s the end of cinema right?! We can’t have these mindless superhero movies crowding out our nostalgia porn!!
if you’re one of these internet people who bases their entire
personality on thinking that the MCU is Bad, then we hope you’re happy.
“If you’re one of those Internet people who thinks Zack Snyder has any discernible talent and thus hates the MCU for continually proving you wrong? Then we hope you’re happy….”There, I fixed it for you.
“..but if you’re one of these internet people who bases their entire personality on why the MCU is Bad, we hope you’re happy”Your personality, on the other hand, is an absolute delight! By all means, thank you for padding out this box office breakdown with your petty grievances and unfunny quips!
In fairness, Sam was too chickenshit to quit the AV Club after his colleagues were either turfed out or resigned in solidarity.
I enjoyed Burger Bob and his movie.
“ but if you’re one of these internet people who bases their entire personality on thinking that the MCU is Bad, then we hope you’re happy.”Not BAD, just completely oversaturated.
Shhhh don’t upset the Narrative(tm)!
“Not BAD, just completely oversaturated.”
Completely is the PERFECT word. There were are least twelve per year at one point, weren’t there?
Oh, there weren’t? There were twenty in a decade? So, only two per year on average?
That must mean you watch about six hours of pop culture per year.
Wasn’t really excited for Top Gun but a friend wanted to see it. It’s well-made and fun to watch.
Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. In this case of the “childhood favorites of Gen X’ers” variety.
That can cut two ways. Unearned, treacly nostalgia is obnoxious. But this movie pushed the right buttons, including the real-life health issues of Val Kilmer. Seeing the pictures of him from the first film juxtaposed with his current self wasn’t anything that could be artificially replicated. His exchanges with Cruise felt truly lived-in. Seeing 60 year-old Maverick staring down the end of a career that we saw just getting going at the conclusion of the first movie (and that he subsequently repeatedly self-sabotaged) had real emotional heft.
The first paragraph is the perfect encapsulation of Barsanti as a writer. In one paragraph, we veer wildly between:— Top Gun: Maverick made a lot of money.— But not as much as Doctor Strange.— Still, it made a lot for a non-superhero movie.— But no one would mistake Top Gun: Maverick for real adult drama.— But if you’re obsessed with hating on Marvel, you’re pathetic but be happy, I guess.And at no point is there any actual box office analysis, just a sort of made-up competition between two movies that aren’t meaningfully competing.