Top Gun: Maverick keeps flying and Crimes Of The Future quietly sneaks by at the weekend box office
The new Top Gun is setting multiple records at the box office now
Aux News Crimes Of The Future
Revvin’ up your engine, listen to her howling roar. Metal under tension, beggin’ you to touch and go. Highway to the Crimes Of The Future. Ride into the Crimes Of The Future.
That’s right, body horror freaks. Grab a delicious plate of plastic and grow some extra ears, because David Cronenberg’s Crimes Of The Future flew up the box office charts like some kind of fighter jet flown by a maverick pilot in its debut, opening to a stunning $1.1 million and landing in… 10th place. Now, that might not seem super great, but look at it this way: Crimes Of The Future made a whole million dollars without even having Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange in it! And that whole million dollars was just enough to beat Watcher and get Cronenberg’s film into the top 10! Wow! Ears in places where ears should not be!
Anyway, it’s only been two weeks and we’re already coming up with things to say other than “Top Gun: Maverick made a lot of money.” But yes, Top Gun: Maverick made a lot of money, specifically the maddening sum of $85,999,989 (just round up, christ) for a total of nearly $300 million (see how easy that was?), making it—after just two weeks and without a Doctor Strange in it—Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film domestically. The Hollywood Reporter also notes that its 32 percent drop from last week’s total is the smallest decline a movie has ever had after opening to more than $100 million.
The other interesting thing about this weekend’s box office is that a good chunk of the films are available to watch at home now, either on-demand or on streaming services, which surely contributed to Top Gun and Doctor Strange’s continued success (though the good doctor has fallen pretty far over the course of its five weeks, he’s still on pace to break $400 million soon). Other than that, one thing you won’t see on this chart is Morbius, which was put back in theaters this weekend for some reason but apparently didn’t release official numbers—or at least not numbers that Box Office Mojo, our source for this stuff, felt compelled to mention.
The full top 10 list, which we swear is not a copy-paste of last week’s list (you can tell because of the inclusion of Indian film Vikram and the aforementioned Crimes Of The Future) below.
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
- The Bob’s Burgers Movie
- The Bad Guys
- Downton Abbey: A New Era
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Vikram
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2
- The Lost City
- Crimes Of The Future
Headin’ into twilight, spreadin’ out her wings tonight. She got you jumpin’ off the deck and shovin’ into overdrive. Highway to the Crimes Of The Future. I’ll take you right into the Crimes Of The Future.
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1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
3. The Bob’s Burgers Movie
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873. Morbius
Damn, Sony is getting morbed so hard at the box office.
With a vengeance?
The-Numbers, a good box office site in the wake of Box Office Mojo getting gutted and paywalled, has Morbius taking in $300,000 for the weekend for a scintillating $296 per theater, on par with the new Dinesh propaganda film. Among all the record stuff Top Gun Maverick is doing (I was part of this weekend’s tally; the final 40 minutes in IMAX was truly astonishing), its 10-day domestic take is virtually identical to Dr. Strange’s first ten days. It’ll be interesting to see what hold it’ll turn up next weekend with Jurassic World 3 sucking up a lot of IMAX screens.
With the way Hollywood is structured these days, I suppose we should all brace ourselves for the Top Gun Cinematic Universe.
Didn’t realise Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Crimes of the Future was out.
No one else did either. Also feels like the WB didn’t really promote it much. I think everyone is tired of these movies
Exactly. These movies are…I dunno….fine, I guess. Is this Harry Potter or something? Please try to distinguish between dubbed foreign Netflix imports and this.
They were trying desperately to pump new air into the Harry Potter franchise. Now the question is whether they’ll let it die or try again with a new corner of J.K. Rowling’s imagination. Probably the latter. No one gets promoted to Hollywood studio boss by saying, “We should NOT make that IP-infused CGI tentpole movie!” Maybe they’ll take a page from the DC/Batman playbook and just reboot Harry Potter? What’s Christopher Nolan doing these days?
The biggest issue with the Harry Potter franchise is JK Rowling. Transphobia aside, I think its becoming clear that Jo was a bit of a one hit wonder with Harry Potter. By the end of that series people were starting to ask “Are these books even that good” but post that, everything she has written for the series has been just bad. The Fantastic Beast scripts, the Play, the website essays. All just really mediocre work. Its clear she has hit that sad state as a writer where you are so rich and have such power over a franchise that no one is willing to tell you that you are fucking it up. I think the WB would love to just buy the franchise out from her but I do not think she is willing to sell and, frankly, I do not think the WB has the money to do it.
Don’t forget about her detective thrillers published under a pseudonym. Pretty bad stuff, although that didn’t stop some streaming service (I don’t remember which) from turning it into must-not-see TV. (And I understand the latest in that series features a murderous trans villain, because of course it does.)
Make that money, Top Gun, soar to those highs.By the way, I do think there is something poetic about the sequel of Top Gun potentially becoming Tom Cruise’s biggest box office movie. Especially considering the general tone of the film. Also it will be really interesting if this new bump for his box office image will affect the next Mission Impossible box office.
What kind of effect it’ll have is an interesting thought. M:I usually does strong numbers, but because they come in a summer windfall, they typically open “modest” in the $50-60m range, then leg out for weeks
I’m not sure if this counts as a SPOILER ALERT…but how much beer did Jennifer Connelly have to sell to afford that Porsche?
She’s an admiral’s daughter. She may have inherited a nice chunk of cash.
Guess I didn’t imagine admirals do that well.Really, I’ve no idea what anyone at any level of the military makes.
…or just inherited the car from her dad.
Sonic 2 and Lost City still being in the top 10 while being able to stream or buy for weeks now tells more about the box office these days than anything else.
When you have 18 screens, I guess that you have to show something other than 10 showings of Top Gun. I think those movies are even gone from second run theaters.
Wow. This has to be the first time I’ve ever been really excited about a new film and yet NOT KNOWN it’s already been released. Handing in my Cronenberg fan-card.
(Just round up Christ)
(like a Christian rodeo!)
I’m just here for the continued slow growth of Everything Everywhere All at Once, which is absolutely wonderful and deserves every single dollar it gets.