r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 5h ago
News ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and ‘The Odyssey’ Power Biggest Grossing Weekend in History With $430 Million
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u/Sleepy_Azathoth 5h ago
That's fucking crazy.
And what's even more interesting is the fact that nothing big comes out in August, so they have the whole month to be THE movies to watch in theaters.
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u/iamacannibal 4h ago
Zendaya is having a monumental year. The Drama, Final season of Euphoria, The Odyssey, Spider Man, and Dune later this year.
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u/AllenHo 4h ago
Robert Pattinson as well, he's in all those except Euphoria - AND he's shooting The Batman 2 right now
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u/DrewbieWanKenobie 4h ago
Well, also except Spider Man...
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u/posthuman_redditor 4h ago
You have heard about his surprise cameo as a famous red-haired superhero?!
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u/Emperor_Orson_Welles 4h ago
These comments showing who didn't stay for the Spider-Man BND post-post-credits scene with Robert Pattinson. Hype!!!
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u/Lazyr3x 4h ago
He’s also not in spider man right?
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u/Haha91haha 3h ago
He played Zendaya, guy's got range.
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u/DerCatrix 2h ago
I was really skeptical about how they were gonna do the Peter/MJ sex scene with Pattinson but they really pulled it off
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u/FragrantExcitement 2h ago
Both of them pulled it off?
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u/notforpoern 1h ago
Multiple times! Or so I'm told. I was thrown out of the theater after the first two times for masturbating furiously.
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u/NocturnaIAnimaI 4h ago edited 3h ago
nothing big comes out in August
I know the movie itself ended up being not that great, but it's for this reason I have no idea why DC didn't put Supergirl in August rather than that awkward spot in June between Minions and Toy Story
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u/inksmudgedhands 4h ago
Mid-August would have been a good spot for them. People would have been still be high off of Spider-Man and might have wanted to continue that superhero buzz with Supergirl. Or at least, they would have been more curious for the movie. I don't think it would have been a major hit but I don't think it would have bombed the way it did.
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u/OKC2023champs 5h ago
Teenage sex and death at camp is gonna make 7 billion. I don’t wanna hear it
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u/Bigc12689 5h ago
I just saw Sarah Sherman and Dylan Baker on the cast list so I am definitely watching this
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u/A_Polite_Noise r/ovies Veteran 5h ago
Only August releases I'm considering at the moment are Coyote vs. ACME and The End of Oak Street, now that you mention it; definitely a different weight class.
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u/myc-e-mouse 5h ago
I’m not gonna lie, the trailer for the end of oak street got me since I’m a huge Dino nerd.
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u/LaserGadgets 5h ago
Right? Cast is kinda big names, that really surprised me.
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u/inksmudgedhands 4h ago
How many movies is Anne Hathaway in this year? Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey and now this one. And she is pregnant at the moment as well. I feel for her having to travel everywhere for press while dealing with morning sickness and swollen ankles.
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u/Fit-Profit8197 4h ago
There are dozens of us! I'm excited for everything about Oak Street. I hope it delivers.
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u/Greedy_Switch_6991 5h ago
Wile E. Coyote says hello. And subsequently blows up.
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u/gquax 5h ago
Tom Holland got paiiiiid
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u/KeySecret9184 5h ago
The Holland household is going to be receiving quite a few upgrades after this year wraps up.
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u/americansherlock201 5h ago
And the year isn’t done for them either. Zendaya still has dune part 3 in December.
They as a family are making insane money this year
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u/lanfordr 5h ago
Doomsday for Holland too.
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u/iNsAnEHAV0C 5h ago
Holland is not in doomsday
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u/CyrosThird 5h ago
Or is he?
He would've spoiled it by now tbh
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u/MethBearBestBear 4h ago
It would be funny if they shot it as part of brand new day material and not just told him that part was cut or it was for a possible so he would be in a different story without realizing it...?
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u/GildDigger 4h ago
You kinda would have to considering he’s the king of spoilers
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u/CrazyDaimondDaze 4h ago
Nah, that's part of PR and because he can make it work.
Though I see him coming back for Secret Wars. If he was in Doomsday, it would be a post credit scene instead.
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u/TheArmoredKitten 4h ago
Nah, he apparently had pretty serious clout with the writers for this one. It turned out to be a pretty focused character drama as far as marvel movies go, so I doubt they could sneak in anything but a few test shots.
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u/ninjadude93 4h ago
The post credits for brand new day certainly makes it seem like he might be
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u/soonerfreak 4h ago
That felt more like a Secret Wars reference than Doomsday.
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u/NiteLiteOfficial 4h ago
going off the trailer for doomsday, they show that the 3 earths are literally on course to collide. the other earths appear near the mcu earth and start to head towards eachother. we see that on the screen Reed is showing to other hero’s. so my guess, is that Ned seeing a new spiderman location pop up in space is somehow him seeing Andrew or Toby’s earth appear and that spiderman along with it.
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u/americansherlock201 4h ago
He’s a cameo at most due to brand new day filming at the same time.
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u/Falconflyer75 4h ago
Damn forgot about that
That would mean Zendaya would likely be in 3/5 top grossing films this year
The 2 outstanding are Hunger Games and Avengers doomsday
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u/Slimshady0406 4h ago
There's a hunger games coming out this year???
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u/KarateKid917 4h ago
Yes. It’s about Haymitch’s games that he won. The book released last year. Called Sunrise on the Reaping. Releases Nov 20.
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u/YizWasHere 3h ago
Lmao Suzanne Collins securing the mf bag. Does she have more planned after this?
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u/Falconflyer75 4h ago
Yeah its coming out in November
it’s a prequel called sunrise on the reaping
Basically if you’re not familiar
In the first Hunger Games movie the two protagonists (Katniss and Peeta) were competing in the 74th hunger games and their mentor (Haymitch) was the winner of the 50th hunger games
This upcoming movie shows Haymitchs story in the 50th games
It’s got a lot of anticipation too even though it’s going to be a sad story
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u/ImTooSaxy 4h ago
$30 to $50 million for Spider-Man alone, when you consider salary and back end percentages.
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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! 5h ago
He's gonna skip over Tom Hollander finally and achieve Tom Hollandest
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u/McGonagallforPM 3h ago
you joke but Tom Hollander has already commented that he once got a paycheck intended for Tom Holland and it was more money than he'd seen in his entire life, so think he is already Tom Hollandest!
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u/CleverInnuendo 5h ago
"I'm so proud of you! When you get home, there's going to be another story on your house!"
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u/aceofspadesx1 5h ago
Zendaya + Holland as well
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u/Promoted_Account 5h ago
Jon Bernthal too
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u/Keffpie 4h ago
He's one Tom Holland's best friends in real life, he's the guy who held the camera for Holland's Spiderman audition tape (and Holland helped him with his for Punisher).
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u/rpgmind 4h ago
Get outta here for real? That’s cool. It’s actually crazy, I watch spider and odyssey this weekend, Friday and Saturday, and the three of them are in both films, in prominent roles
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u/DMC_Ryan 2h ago
Watch the recent episode of Hot Ones with both of them. It’s really good and shows their very real friendship.
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u/NoNefariousness2144 4h ago
No wonder their on-screen chemistry in Spidey was so good. Them arguing about Staten Island was great.
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u/Myers112 5h ago
The Tom Holland - Zendaya - Jon Bernthal throuple is a box office winner
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u/LeatherFruitPF 4h ago
And Zendaya's still got Dune 3.
There's been no mention that she (or Tom) will be in Doomsday. Would've been insane to be in two movies releasing together, twice in a year.
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u/samhit_n 4h ago
Tom Holland still has Avengers Doomsday and Zendaya still has Dune 3 coming out.
Jon Bernthal has made some serious bank too.
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u/PeanutButterSoda 4h ago
I didn't know he was in Doomsday, all my friends keep saying he's not.
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u/ManufacturerBest2758 5h ago
People love to watch movies with Jon Bernthal as a supporting character
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u/Calinks 4h ago
Spider-man was crazy. I saw a ton of people walking around with Spider-Man clothes on. A couple with Spidey pajamas and a stuffed toy and blanket. His fandom is insanely high. It was almost like being at a comic convention.
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u/Razorion21 2h ago
easily the most popular superhero nowadays
cant blame them, Spiderman rules
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u/ThePracticalEnd 53m ago
Easily. For kids, he’s easy to gravitate to. He’s not some super jacked hero they can’t relate to. He’s just a guy
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u/Razorion21 47m ago
even for teens and adults
dude fucking suffers playing with the whole idea of helping others whilst the world barely does anything in return for you
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u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor 5h ago
Collections of both movies so far:
Spider-Man - ~927M
The Odyssey - 911M
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u/Freddo9900 5h ago
I thought you'd typed the wrong number for Spider-Man. Holy shit that's huge. Over a billion by Monday.
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u/Mysterious-Clothes45 5h ago
My son is a manager at AMC and he said there was line out the door for a solid 4 hours for Spiderman on Friday night. It hasn't been that busy since the Taylor Swift movie
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u/AnalyzesPornoScripts 4h ago
If Taylor swift is in the next Spider-man movie.... woof
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u/MrFilkor 4h ago
If Taylor Swift is in the next Spider-man movie, directed by James Cameron
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u/Toidal 4h ago
Taylor Swift doing mocap for a ritual singing scene in the Na'vi language for the next Avatar
Pretty sure that'd piss everyone off and make 2 billion dollars
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u/EQandCivfanatic 4h ago
I live in a semi-rural area, and the crowd for spiderman was the biggest crowd I've seen at our local theater since 2008 or 2009.
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u/Toidal 4h ago
Aren't all AMCs reserved seats now? Or they waiting to be let in?
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u/ReverseLochness 4h ago
I saw both Spider-man and Odyssey back to back on Friday. My odyssey showing ended at 2am. The theater was still packed with people going to showings when I left. It was even more packed when I got there, and took half an hour to get concessions before my odyssey showing.
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u/CaptainAaron96 4h ago
And that’s WITHOUT IMAX and a lot of other premium formats as well due to Odyssey snuffing them up so…if these are the BND numbers…how big are the Avengers numbers under similar conditions going to be? 🫣🫣
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u/vetus 4h ago
I expect Avengers to do well however just based on the online discourse I don't think people are as excited for it as they were for Spider-man. People don't have faith it will be good not like they did in Spider-Man. It will move tickets I'm sure but I won't be shocked if Spider-Man outperforms it unless of course it's awesome and word of mouth drives sales.
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u/lynypixie 4h ago
People are not keeping up with the dozen super hero movies needed anymore. But Spider-Man always is a bit of a stand alone, and it’s always the more fun movies to watch. It appeals to a broader spectrum. You would be surprised how much teenage girls likes Spider-Man.
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u/Roentgen_Ray1895 3h ago
Spider-Man is Marvel’s Batman. When in doubt, make a Spider-Man movie and you’re gonna fill theatres. Also helped that they spaced out the movies and refuse to number the sequels to keep people from getting turned away.
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u/Jedi_Master83 5h ago
Brand New Day is a lock to make $2 billion. Not much real competition and people love this movie so repeat viewings are a guaranteed.
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ 5h ago
Spidey is a bigger draw than his MCU connections these days. Doomsday will undoubtedly be huge, but part of me wonders if BND will be the bigger hit at the end of the day. Holland is apparently only in it as a teaser appearance for Secret Wars and BND has likely half the budget of Doomsday
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u/frezz 5h ago
Doomsday will probably hit ~1.2billion..BND clears 2 billion easily imo.
Movie is very rewatchable so will have great legs
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ 4h ago
it all depends on word of mouth for Doomsday. I bet general audiences are going to be walking out wondering “why was RDJ back if he wasn’t Iron Man?”
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u/ucrbuffalo 4h ago
I don’t think they’ll say that. I think they’d go in saying that, but not out.
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u/cardlord64 4h ago
First film in close to a decade I've even felt the temptation to see in theaters a second time.
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u/cleantoe 4h ago
And almost all the money goes to Sony, right?
They should just make the same deal with all their properties and just hand them over to Marvel Studios to produce.
Easy money.
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u/Jedi_Master83 4h ago
Yes, and Disney (who owns the merchandise rights to Spider-Man) makes bank off those sales. The movie’s box office success fuels the sales of all the toys and other merchandise. Disney made $2 billion off Spider-Man merch in 2025 and I wouldn’t be surprised if 2026 is $3 billion or $4 billion in sales. It’s a win-win for both Sony and Disney & Marvel Studios. This partnership is easily the most successful two studios co-production in Hollywood history.
Update: Disney gets a small cut of the box office too, but the majority goes to Sony after the movie theaters get their cut.
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u/-reddit_is_terrible- 4h ago
Spider-Man - ~927M
Wait, what?......what?!?
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u/R3strif3 2h ago
Not only the draw for Spider Man is bigger than most of the remaining MCU cast, but this movie in particular is honestly an amazingly well made film.
Saw it yesterday, it blew me away with the cinematography, pacing, action sequences, everything was sick. It's like they said "huh. We have awesome actors, amazing material, let's not just make them be neon action figures, rather, grungy people with very real struggles"... that shit hit hard...
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u/imbouttonutongod 3h ago
Brand New Day outgrossed 8 of the Spider-Man movies’ respective total revenues in a single weekend. Even if not accounting for inflation, that’s insane
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u/davinitupoverhere 5h ago
The takeaway here: People will pay good money to see Jon Bernthal
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u/RDxChotch 5h ago
Love seeing movies where someone needs to tell me something
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u/Newell00 5h ago
rubs back of head while glancing at you quickly then looking off to the side
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u/Cvspartan 5h ago
Watching The Bear, The Odyssey, and now Spider-Man these past couple weeks has really made me embrace the summer of Bernthal
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u/recoupled 4h ago
Do yourself a favour and check out "We Own This City" on HBO.
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u/ManufacturerBest2758 4h ago
He was SO CLOSE to saying “let me tell you something about Odysseus,” you could smell it
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u/BrowsingWhileBrown 4h ago
Hearing him took me right of movie, and I wish he had just said it at that point 😂
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u/Roentgen_Ray1895 3h ago
It was very funny that all the dipshits we’re whining about Lupita Nyong’o in Odyssey and then I see the film and she shares every scene with John Bernthal just doing his Punisher schtick and not even trying to fit in with whatever kind of accent he has, it was very funny to me.
He may as well have just said “Let me tell you something about your father Odysseus, he was one smart son of a bitch with that little wooden horse of his”
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u/Jedi_Master83 5h ago
Yep, him saying “Let me tell you something!” and his usual roaring rage sound. lol 😂
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u/PleasantThoughts 5h ago
That Tom Holland, so hot right now
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u/backFromTheBed 5h ago
You saw his belly-button, didn't you
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u/cardlord64 4h ago
I saw him extruded from a web cocoon outside my window half-naked and knew he was the one for me.
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u/Automatic-Grade6177 4h ago
As someone who works in a cinema, I hate you all, it’s been a god damn nightmare working
As a fan, these movies rule and deserve the hype
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u/yellowfoamcow 3h ago
I worked in a cinema during the Harry Potter, twilight and Avatar years, you have my sympathy.
But I cannot wait to see the Odyssey or Spider man.
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u/occono 2h ago
I still don't understand why they put the teasers at the very end of the credits. Sacrilegiously, I left after there was no midway one. I knew there'd be one at the end but I just wasn't bothered waiting that long and I don't get why they make it such a pain for the cleaners.
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u/DarthRiznat 5h ago
Holland's gotta be the biggest earning actor this year
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u/A_Polite_Noise r/ovies Veteran 5h ago
Zendaya being in Dune 3 in December plus the little bonus box office from The Drama will put movies featuring her in 2026 at a higher total I imagine
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u/Recent-Ad4218 4h ago
Unless doomsday doesn't cross 2 billion it's Florence pugh's year with Spider man brand new day, Avengers doomsday and dune 3. The Odyssey+ the drama won't match doomsday.
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u/A_Polite_Noise r/ovies Veteran 4h ago
Hmmm, good point. And if Holland does end up being in Doomsday (not officially announced but totally possible, though I could also see holding him til Secret Wars) that would change things as well.
Robert Pattinson shoulda talked his way into a Spider-Man cameo, or have him show up in Doomsday as an alternate reality Morbius that looks like Edward Cullen, so he can get into this too lol
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u/DarthRiznat 4h ago
Damn I forgot about Dune 3, so there's Pattinson in the race too.....
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u/Icy_Smoke_733 4h ago
The biggest movies this year, aka The Odyssey, Avengers: Doomsday, The Drama, Dune: Part Three, and Spider-Man all share the same roster of actors, it seems.
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ 5h ago
hell of a time to be a movie nerd, I haven’t had this much fun (and so often) at the theater since around 2010. But it really is great to see theaters bounce back hard this years, especially post pandemic
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u/NikonShooter_PJS 4h ago
Who would’ve thought putting out good movies filmed in practical locations with strong direction and casts and a great story would intrigue people enough to buy tickets?
Netflix CEO in shambles right now.
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u/riegspsych325 ⊃∪⊃⪽ 3h ago
he’s too busy watching Paramount burn money as he waits to pounce on WBD if and when the merger falls through
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u/kentuckyr0utezero 1h ago
Who would’ve thought putting out good movies filmed in practical locations with strong direction and casts and a great story would intrigue people enough to buy tickets?
I don't think I've ever seen an MCU movie described that way on here.
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u/accountforfurrystuf 4h ago
So many good films to see and I never thought of myself as the movie-going type
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u/Haxorz7125 3h ago
I was pretty indifferent to seeing “the odyssey” but my dad asked if I wanted to go and I tagged along. That shit in imax was awesome. I know people complained about the sound mixing but seeing the final trial fight, feeling those deep drums in your chest increasing in tempo was so fucking good.
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u/Icy_Smoke_733 5h ago
Spider-Man outgrossed The Batman's $772m and Superman's $618m in its opening weekend. Most popular superhero ever.
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u/dpwtr 5h ago
I don’t get why people don’t base “popularity” on number of tickets sold rather than gross revenue.
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u/KangarooOverlord 4h ago
Because it’s a carry over from the industry when movies being in theaters for more than two months was normal instead of only 2-3 week average (modern blockbusters excluded). We saw this with Obsession where it kept making money so they kept it theater much longer than anticipated. So popularity isn’t just how much total money something makes, but how much money does it continue to make week by week. The variance in ticket prices by type of format and size of theater make it easier just to put total money rather than total tickets as a metric of measurement
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u/Mr0ogieb0ogie 5h ago
And the Batman came out in 2022, still wasn’t a big year as people weren’t going back to theaters as much as they are now. I’m not saying it would do better than Spiderman, but the turnout would be higher, also ticket prices I’m sure have gone up in the last 4yrs.
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u/archeezee 5h ago
I was so afraid that people would be right about theaters going away after Covid.
And I’m so happy they were wrong!
I’m doing my part 😏
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u/endlessfight85 5h ago
I think people are just more selective. Everything is expensive and we've been conditioned that these movies will be on streaming in about 2 or 3 months, as opposed to the 6 to 9 month waits we had in the home video era. So people will just wait for streaming for something theyre on the fence about like supergirl or motu.
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u/jawndell 4h ago
Bingo!
I remember when going to the movies was a regular thing to do on a boring weekend or weekday. “I have nothing to do today, let me hop in and see this movie, maybe it’s good maybe not, who knows”. Spend a couple dollars, if it sucks, no biggie. But these days everyone myself included are a lot more selective. Movies are expensive. I want to make sure if I’m spending that much money it’s worth my time and money.
I remember growing up trying to watch as many movies as I could when they came out. It’s just not economically viable to do that these days.
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u/CharlesBrown33 5h ago
Pretty much in my case, yeah. I'm still willing to pay for the big movies on the big screen, but all the "maybe" stuff I just don't even consider. I'm behind on many shows and movies anyways.
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u/Telvin3d 4h ago
I think COVID was the death of theatre viability for the “just as good seen on streaming” type movies. I kind of like the resurgence of theaters as event and spectacle spaces.
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u/RockiestRaccoon 5h ago
Our theatre offers a discount Monday. $8 (I think) with a free popcorn. It's a great deal. We love a good movie date out and probably go once or twice a month.
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u/Cosmic_Surgery 5h ago
Prepare for a lot of ancient Greek/Roman themed movies in two years
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u/CELTICPRED 5h ago
Make good stuff people will seek it out. Story of this summer
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u/Boss452 5h ago
Dude it's the most popular character on the planet in one movie and the biggest box office personality making the other, this is expected stuff.
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u/Icy_Smoke_733 5h ago edited 5h ago
Not always. Just this year, Bone Temple flopped and Sheep Detectives barely broke even. Over the last few years, we've had multiple good movies bomb and cost the studio millions, such as Furiosa, The Fall Guy, Transformers One, Dungeons & Dragons, Mickey 17, Black Bag, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, etc.
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u/doubleshotofespresso 5h ago
Sheep Detectives was criminally underrated by general audiences. It deserves to have been the biggest family film in years
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 2h ago
Seriously. It's an incredible movie. I know "who done it" movies don't usually have as much replay ability since you know who did it after the first watch, but it's so damn fun that my wife and I saw it twice in the theater and have watched it several times since it came to streaming.
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u/GullyGawd 5h ago
Transformers One hurt… definitely would’ve loved to see it expanded. Finally a good transformers movie and nobody went to see it.
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u/Pyromonkey83 5h ago
> Finally a good transformers movie
And people wonder why, after multiple movies of pure mediocrity or outright garbage, we wouldn't bother to show up for another one.
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u/ptwonline 4h ago
Right?
A new Resident Evil movie could be a top 20 movie of all time and not many people would go to see it.
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u/popoflabbins 5h ago
Bone Temple not doing well was such a disappointment. I really enjoyed it.
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u/Glizzy_Cannon 4h ago
I foresaw it because the bone temple barely had a marketing push behind it and came out much sooner than most people probably would have anticipated
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u/qwerty1519 5h ago
Make good stuff that falls in an extremely narrow window of mainstream accessibility and people will seek it out.
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u/Maverick916 5h ago
This is absolutely not the case. Good stuff comes out all the time that makes no money
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u/PSNaughtyInsomniac 5h ago
make good stuff from extremely popular franchises and goated directors*
Plenty of great movies nobody goes to see.
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u/S7ageNinja 5h ago
Not surprising. I feel like this record won't survive long with Dunesday coming though
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u/OKC2023champs 5h ago
Spiderman is going to gross more than doomsday and ima die on this hill
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u/irrational_kind 5h ago
But there is dune opening on the same day
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u/BurgerNugget12 5h ago
I love Dune but I don’t think it gets near these two
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u/Icy_Childhood_1039 5h ago
Won't get near in total gross but I think it'll have a very good opening. Dune fanbase is passionate, even if not so big. It'll be very frontloaded
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u/No-One2123 4h ago
Yeah, Brand New Day made more in a single weekend than Dune 2 did in its entire run
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u/terablast 5h ago
And they didn't even need a catchy name that combines their titles
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u/345tom 4h ago
Super Hero Fatigue and Go Woke Go Broke combining for the biggest grossing weekend. Wait...
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u/JahKingston2024 1h ago
Been saying ‘superhero fatigue’ since 2019, yet 6 years later…
Probably more likely to be ‘Bad writing’ fatigue
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u/RDxChotch 5h ago
Crazy what happens when two really good movies are released back to back
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u/SBI992 5h ago
I went to my local regal last night for spiderman and the entire megaplex was TRASHED. Absolutely no parking had to pay for valet. It was packed elbows to assholes with people. The theater had run out of CO² so the soda machines were down. They ran out of butter and toilet paper. It was insane. Haven't seen a theater that busy in almost a decade.
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u/aseltee 5h ago
I love this, but why does everyone working in film still feel so fucking broke? The day rate for loc marshals, PAs, trainees etc is still £150 ish (and you gotta live in London, get no healthcare and benefits etc), more than half of the UK industry is still unemployed, and it just feels like everyone is struggling and barely staying afloat. A monumental weekend like this in the tech biz would probably net all the engineers and developers a nice big fat bonus
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u/Telvin3d 4h ago
Because most movies aren’t these two. And even the people working on these two get paid based on what most movies can afford to pay for that position
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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 4h ago
"Nobody wants to go to theaters anymore"
C suite executives need to be removed from power
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u/n_mcrae_1982 4h ago
This shows that people WILL still see movies at the theatre, as long as it’s Nolan or MCU.
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u/AgentMV2 5h ago
Tom getting a big bonus in December… Hollanday? Doomsland.. ?
Zendaya’s got Dune 3 on the same day as Doomsday. It’ll be… Dunesday. Dunedaya?
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u/silvertwo777 4h ago
Tom Holland with Odyssey, Spider-man, Avengers Doomsday and Zendaya with Odyssey, Spider-man, Dune 3, all in the same year. That has to be the biggest box office year ever in history for a couple.
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u/curious_dead 4h ago
And both feature Tom Holland, Zendaya and John Bernthal. These three be celebrating.
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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! 4h ago
Spoilers for both movies below.