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That's a serious stretch for an opening day.
Still, any way you slice it, more than 5 million people have already seen Wicked, a number that's expected to more than double by the end of the weekend.
Her career spanned six decades, but if she'd quit Hollywood after the first, she'd still have been a leading lady for the ages.
In just the 1970s, Diane Keaton starred in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, two Godfather movies, and six Woody Allen comedies, including Play It Again, Sam, Love and Death, Sleeper, and Annie Hall, in which she played the unforgettably scattered title character.
The film won Keaton a Best Actress Oscar, and she received three other nominations for her intense writer hanging out with socialists in Warren Beatty's Reds, her selfless daughter in Marvin's Room, and her successful playwright, wooed by both Keanu Reeves and Jack Nicholson in Something's Gotta Give.
Keaton also directed, appeared both on Broadway and in more than 60 other films, and wrote several best-selling memoirs.
For a film about decidedly minor Marvel characters, Thunderbolts did just fine. You feel fulfilled? Yeah, so full. So filled. By the end of the weekend, it will have taken in about $76 million in North America. and another $86 million overseas, for a total of $162 million in three days. That's hardly huge for a Marvel movie, but Thunderbolts wasn't hugely expensive to produce.
For a film about decidedly minor Marvel characters, Thunderbolts did just fine. You feel fulfilled? Yeah, so full. So filled. By the end of the weekend, it will have taken in about $76 million in North America. and another $86 million overseas, for a total of $162 million in three days. That's hardly huge for a Marvel movie, but Thunderbolts wasn't hugely expensive to produce.
It's expected to play well for much of the summer, also performing well the third weekend of the blues-inflected vampire film, Sinners.
It's expected to play well for much of the summer, also performing well the third weekend of the blues-inflected vampire film, Sinners.
In three weeks, Sinners has now collected almost $180 million just in North America. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
In three weeks, Sinners has now collected almost $180 million just in North America. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
Snow White easily dwarfed the competition at cinemas. The rest of the box office top ten combined made barely half as much as Snow White did, but this live-action remake of Disney's first animated feature only took in $87 million worldwide. and that means making back its $270 million production cost is going to be difficult.
Snow White easily dwarfed the competition at cinemas. The rest of the box office top ten combined made barely half as much as Snow White did, but this live-action remake of Disney's first animated feature only took in $87 million worldwide. and that means making back its $270 million production cost is going to be difficult.
Disney has had a lot of success with live remakes of its animated classics, and even when they don't cast a spell at the box office, they feed the company's other revenue streams, Disney+, sales of merchandise, theme park rides, even shows on Broadway. Still, for Hollywood, it's a disappointing start, in a year that has yet to have a smash hit. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
Disney has had a lot of success with live remakes of its animated classics, and even when they don't cast a spell at the box office, they feed the company's other revenue streams, Disney+, sales of merchandise, theme park rides, even shows on Broadway. Still, for Hollywood, it's a disappointing start, in a year that has yet to have a smash hit. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
She's buoyant, determined, and waiting for families to show up. And they are, if not quite in the numbers Disney hoped. Including previews, Snow White made $15 million its opening day, which suggests it's headed for about $45 million this weekend. roughly half what Princess Ariel took home in The Little Mermaid two years ago.
She's buoyant, determined, and waiting for families to show up. And they are, if not quite in the numbers Disney hoped. Including previews, Snow White made $15 million its opening day, which suggests it's headed for about $45 million this weekend. roughly half what Princess Ariel took home in The Little Mermaid two years ago.