Sunday AM: Estimates have been revised up with the film tracking for an $86 million second weekend, a drop of just 32% – the smallest decline ever for a movie opening domestically to $100 million or more.
Saturday AM: It wasn’t enough for it to just break the Memorial Day holiday weekend box-office, it looks like Paramount and Skydance’s “Top Gun: Maverick” is going to have real staying power.
The film is on track for an $84.5 million second weekend domestically, a drop of just 33%. If the estimate holds it will tie with “Shrek 2” way back in 2004 for the smallest drop-off in a second weekend for a film opening above $100 million.
It’s also a big change from other box-office toppers of recent months that have seen big drops in their sophomore outings. That includes the “Doctor Strange” sequel and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” which both fell 67%. So far this year only “The Bad Guys” (-32.2%), “Uncharted” (-47.7%) and “The Batman” (-50.4%) have topped the charts and held well in their second outings.
‘Maverick’ is actually tracking to earn exactly as much as the recent “Spider-Man” did in its second weekend, even though the latter opened to twice as much in its debut. That suggests very long staying power for the “Top Gun” follow-up which is expected to hit $290 million domestically by end of Sunday.
Sadly it’s about the only film making money as overall box-office remains 32% down from pre-pandemic levels. Last week’s “Bob’s Burgers Movie” looks set to drop 61% with $4.8 million in third place.
“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is winding down but still doing alright with $8.8 million in second place in its fifth week, while “Everything Everywhere All at Once” continues to be the breakout arthouse hit with a $60 million total to date.
Of the newcomers this weekend, “Vikram” debuted in sixth place with $2.1 million whilst David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” debuted in tenth place with a $1.2 million weekend haul.
Next weekend sees “Jurassic World: Dominion” arrives in the U.S., China and much of the world after it opens this weekend in a handful of smaller international territories.
Korea scored it this weekend where the film had the country’s fourth-biggest opening day of all time. Early projections have the U.S. domestic opening weekend coming in as high as $180-200 million for the three day.
Source: Deadline
