Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Elvis opened strong this weekend with a $30.5 million Fri-Sun debut right alongside Top Gun: Maverick’s shockingly huge (also $30.5 million) fifth-weekend gross. Regardless of which film topped the domestic box office when the final figures drop tomorrow, they are both winners. I’ll discuss the Tom Cruise-led sequel later, but the Tom Hanks co-starring music biopic benefited from the former. Some of the best marketing a movie can have is a good trailer playing before a smash hit aimed at similar demographics. Think the Deep Impact teaser attached to Titanic or the Zootopia DMV spot playing before The Force Awakens . With all the pre-summer concern that older, irregular audiences (Elvis Presley isn’t exactly still huge with the kids) wouldn’t show up, the Warner Bros. flick got a last-minute shot in the arm when Top Gun: Maverick soared past $520 million domestic partially thanks to older and irregular moviegoers. … [Read more...] about Box Office: ‘Elvis’ Rocks $31 Million Debut As ‘Black Phone’ Grabs $23 Million
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Woman From India Leads As Winemaker At Beloved Napa Winery To Build A Better Tomorrow After Tragedy
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin As the terrifying words and shocking photos showing fierce fires destroying thousands of acres of land flooded social media, it was hard to not feel helpless. The over 50 mph winds assisted the fire in covering so much ground in such a short time that people who thought they were out of harm’s way would quickly realize within the same hour that they needed to evacuate as soon as possible. The direction of the wind changed constantly making it impossible for anyone within Napa Valley and Sonoma County to know if they were truly safe, as fleeing one’s home had many downsides since temporarily living in a crowded community center seemed to be a torturous alternative, or much worse, one could accidentally drive into the heart of one of the fast and furious fires, trapped with no way out. Many living outside of northern California stayed glued to the internet to see if friends or colleagues in the wine industry were doing okay. … [Read more...] about Woman From India Leads As Winemaker At Beloved Napa Winery To Build A Better Tomorrow After Tragedy
Box Office: ‘Elvis’ Bests ‘Top Gun 2’ With $31 Million Weekend
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin In a kind of skewed "nature is healing” moment, two big movies scored strong Fri-Sun grosses and essentially tied for first place amid the last weekend in June. Paramount and Skydance’s poor, pathetic Top Gun: Maverick earned just $29.6 million in its fifth weekend, dropping 34% for a mere $521 million domestic cume after a month in theaters. What’s worse is that Tom Cruise’s Maverick’s $29.6 million gross is not the second-biggest fifth-weekend earner as estimates argued but merely the third-biggest behind such lightweights as Titanic ($30.1 million in 1998) and Avatar ($42 million in 2010). Yes, the $170 million legacy sequel cracked $1 billion worldwide over the weekend, but the most important variable is that it placed a sad, shameful second in its fifth weekend of release. Good luck keeping it off Paramount+ before 120 days now, Tom!! Jokes aside, Warner Bros.’ Elvis topped the domestic box office over its … [Read more...] about Box Office: ‘Elvis’ Bests ‘Top Gun 2’ With $31 Million Weekend