1 mil weekdays for Interstellar is wild

Interestingly Interstellar has never been #1. It opened against Big Hero 6 with a quieter run. Currently #10 on the never #1 list but should rise at least to #8, leaving Nolan with 2/8 of the top films never to reach #1.

Never #1

1 Oppenheimer $329,862,540 2 85 2023 Universal Pictures
2 Sing $270,395,425 2 132 2016 Universal Pictures
3 My Big Fat Greek Wedding $241,438,208 2 163 2002 IFC Films
4 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel $219,614,612 3 194 2009 Twentieth Century Fox
5 Alvin and the Chipmunks $217,326,974 2 204 2007 Twentieth Century Fox
6 A Star Is Born $215,288,866 2 211 2018 Warner Bros.
7 Sherlock Holmes $209,028,679 2 226 2009 Warner Bros.
8 World War Z $202,359,711 2 236 2013 Paramount Pictures
9 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $196,573,705 2 250 2009 Twentieth Century Fox
10 Interstellar $188,020,017 2 256 2014 Paramount Pictures

Despite being influenced by a different Kubrick, Interstellar is officially the new Barry Lyndon.

It did do very well overseas, but still kinda crazy it opened to less than Dunkirk and didn't get a best picture nomination. No wonder Nolan now insists his films open in July.

There's a small chance Mufasa makes it onto this list IMO. Assuming OW is ~50m and Sonic is ~70m, it won't pull ahead of Sonic until after Christmas, but if Complete Unknown or Nosferatu are big enough they could prevent it from taking #1. And on Jan 10th there's Den of Thieves 2 which should take #1

We need a bit more McConaughey. Probably enjoying his life too much to act.

My theory would be the irrational hate Rachel Zegler gets, but those people probably wouldn't go see the movie to begin with, so...Kyle Mooney isn't for everyone (I still want to see it) and can kind of come off as "precious". The movie might have that same quality.

Also

Tues #'s

Wicked $4.7M -32.5% / $330.1M
Moana TBD
Gladiator II $1.77M -40.3% / $135.82M
Interstellar $1.06M / $6.72M / $194.74M

Starting to stabilize quickly. Still feel $500M+ is in the cards here.

Interstellar is just $5.26M away from $200M. A very successful re-release!!

Wed #'s

1. WICKED ($3.4M) -33.1%
2. MOANA ($2.5M) -43.5%
3. GLADIATOR II ($1.2M) -39.1%
4. INTERSTELLAR ($1.1M)

Interstellar is now at $195.8M! It's probably going to end up making $15M+ from this Imax re-release in just 165 theaters. Should be at $9M going into weekend 2.

Gladiator will be at $138M going into the weekend. Not blockbuster level but a respectable run considering it could be at $150M before the holiday box office bump kicks in.

Happy it seems Moana won't pass Wicked!

I think they’ll be 5 million or less apart this weekend so yeah no it won’t. Plus Mufasonic goes more directly for Moana’s family demos than Wicked’s older demo.

its increasing its theater count for this weekend.

https://x.com/BORReport/status/1867289155920888147

from 165 to 321. That will not have big increase in gross but even holding last weekend gross is sufficient for it to cross 200m.

Wait Interstellar has been doing this in 160 theatres? I assumed it was thousands.

I think Christopher Nolan is the most popular director amongst cinephiles these days.

THURSDAY #'s

1. WICKED ($3M) -37.2%
2. MOANA 2 ($2.3M) -48.8%
3. DAFT PUNK: INTERSTELLA 5555 ($1.5M)
4. GLADIATOR II ($1M) -44.0%

Kraven $2M previews
LOTR $625K previews

Wow for a 21 year old anime re-release from Daft Punk making $1.5M on Thursday. Only originally had a $4M budget. 2024 continues to be the year of the re-release renaissance!

He's the biggest draw in film period. Oppnenheimer doing a billion was purely thanks to him. With another director it would've done Darkest Hour numbers.

I agree Nolan was the majority but I'd say 75%. I do think the Barbenheimer thing added at least 25-30% and current times also made a film like that resonate like it did for TGM.