He led sinners, stars war, and Ben Affleck the most important weekend at the box office over the ages

It is likely that no one to pay attention to movies even a little, especially people who enjoy going to theaters to watch movies, and they were a handful of harsh years of industry. the The box office was not completely recovered from the closing of the epidemic five years agoWith some rises along the way, but its lowest levels to complicate matters. Fortunately, things recently looked, with “Minecraft” that provides global destruction. Here’s some good news: It was undoubtedly the last weekend, one of the most important weekends and its encouragement at the box office for years.

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At the end of the last week of April 2025, the saw Ryan Kogler is making more than $ 45 million on the weekend of the second weekendLow drop for a broad version of horror. It is now unexpectedly huge, original. What is unique about the matter, which exceeds the first movie on the plans, is that the latest Kogler did not completely swallow the rest of the competition. When “Minecraft” was opened to $ 163 millionThe second movie, “Working Man”, made slightly more than $ 7 million. It was far from the situation at the end of last week.

For beginners, “Star Wars: Revenge of the Seth” withdrew more than $ 25 millionPresenting one of the best inaugurates ever to release a play. Then the “Accountant 2” was opened to 24.4 million dollars, mainly coinciding with the opening weekend of the original nine years ago. Meanwhile, “Minecraft” remained strong, adding another $ 22.7 million on the fourth weekend, and arrested the brand of $ 800 million worldwide.

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Finally, at least four films made $ 20 million during the weekend. It is only the second time in the era of the epidemic that happened, Join the weekend on June 24, 2022 when “Elvis” ($ 31 million)“Top Gun: MAVERICK” ($ 29 million), “Jurassic World Dominion” ($ 26 million), and “The Black Phone” ($ 23 million) did this.

One of the big differences this weekend in June 2022 is that, first of all, was in the middle of the summer, which tends to be a more powerful time for box office in general. Second, only six films made at least one million dollars this weekend, with everything else setting on the plans of six numbers. Is this the latest weekend? Everything in the first ten places was cleared of a million dollars, including “Pink Floyd: Live AT POMPEII”, which achieves $ 2.6 million on only 678 screens.

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Even Sony video game “Until Fajr”, which opened with $ 8 million in the fifth place on the graphsIt can be considered modest success thanks to its $ 15 million budget. In general, the biggest point was the presence of something small for everyone on a weekend of a weekend. This is something that we have not seen enough in recent years, as the theaters have largely starred to death until “Inside Out 2” or “Barbie”.

This is not a sustainable business model for theaters. It looks like a sustainable weekend that we are now looking. Let players like Coogler take the gambling that has a chance to pay. Make the Gen Z major films like “Minecraft”. Make more large re -editors such as “Revenge of the Sith”, especially for movies like “Interstellar” has also carried out major businesses in re -launch in recent years. He presented something to different fans at different levels of the budget, and do not publish the release calendar very thin. Anti -programming is your friend. People will appear when their needs are met.

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If this weekend shows anything, this is a need for more films of different sizes in the market. Not everything will work, but putting a lot of films on $ 200 million is a dangerous game. When something like “Snow White”, theaters end in the problems and leave the studios holding the bag. A varied list seems to be the key to a more sustainable and long -term success.

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We go to a summer cinematic season with many big films And a lot of great gambling on the list, and this seems more necessary for Hollywood in general to consider it. 2025 is placed in the stone, but it is still possible to get rid of 2026 and beyond. Spread the release calendar in a more strategic way. Get more things in the middle of the budget on the screens. Certainly think about scheduling some release of more time to the relevant anniversary. Put more movies in theaters. It is the only way to generate more cinematic events that people care about. The size should be a larger part of the equation.

The box office is still on unconfirmed land and the theater owners are still looking for a viable path forward. In some cases, it includes this Theaters add attractions such as bowling and even throwing an ax. This is all good and good, but even those added elements work better when there is a more regular flow for cinema pioneers instead of a large explosion of people and then fled for several consecutive weeks.

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There will be larger weekends in movies in 2025, but it is difficult to imagine one that still can be possible. This is what the healthy theatrical market can look like in the future.

We talked a lot about the box office numbers on the weekend, as well as some modern news elements, in today’s episode of The /Film Daily PodCast:

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