The top domestic earning film this weekend was Superman.
- $196,616,498. There have been dozens of Superman films, with 11 of them considered to be re-makes.
- #1 the weekend of July 4-6 was Jurassic World: Rebirth $152,305,936.
- #1 the weekend of June 27-29 was F1: The Movie $124,133,275.
The latest Worldwide box office (in 100 million $, with Rotten Tomatoes rating in parentheses):
- #1 Ne Zha 2 $1.90 or, $1.9 billion (96/99)
- #2 Lilo & Stitch $0.99 (52/71)
- #3 A Minecraft Movie $0.96 (47/85)
- #4 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning $0.58 (80/88)
- #5 How to Train Your Dragon $0.56 (77/97)
- #6 Jurassic World: Rebirth $0.53 (52/71).
- #7 Captain America: Brave New World $0.42 (47/77)
- #8 F1: The Movie $0.39 (83/97)
- #13 Superman $0.22 or $217 million (83/93)
You say, never heard of Ne Zha 2? Click on it and you'll see:
After a great catastrophe, the souls of Nezha and Aobing are saved, but their bodies face ruin. To give them new life, Taiyi Zhenren turns to the mystical seven-colored lotus in a daring bid to rebuild them and change their fate.
Anyway, as I indicated yesterday, I had gone to a movie theater only once since the pandemic, and that was Barbenheimer, a twin-bill worthy of taking a chance in 2023 when COVID-19 was still lurking. So yesterday I went out on an adventure.
- At 9:50AM I entered the Ward movie complex and bought two tickets.
- 10AM for F1: The Movie, 2 hours and 35 minutes long.
- Lunch at Rinka.
- 2PM for Jurassic World Rebirth. Oh, by providing my phone number, I got a free ticket to this show. They kept a record of my membership.
- So what could possibly go wrong? Well, I mistakenly walked into the Jurassic World film first.
- I had prepared for this outing by this past week recording and viewing these three earlier versions:
- Jurassic World: (2015)
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: (2018)
- Jurassic World: Dominion: (2022)
- The first one in 1993, Jurassic Park, was highly rated (91/91), but each sequel just got worse and worse, with the 2022 production only getting 29/77 from Rotten Tomatoes.
- Well, this 2025 film only got 52/71 scores, but was actually enjoyable.
- Something to do with the large screen and great audio.
- No doubt another one will be forthcoming, probably bringing back Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali.
- Lunch at Rinka was terrific.
- Walked back into the theater, and noticed that F1 was not to show for awhile. So I was faced with a decision to make. I could have gone to Ne Zha 2, but I avoid animated films. Available was Superman, but I don't go to comic-book movies. Cruise's latest Mission Impossible production was just about ready to air, so this is where I went.
- This "final" MI movie was not as good as MI Dead Reckoning Part One, which got 96/94 scores from Rotten Tomatoes. But it was okay.
- Tom Cruise is 63-years old. Age is not a factor, but it seems more likely for Cruise to spin-off a new Ethan Hunt series.
- Here is a list for his future:
Upcoming Tom Cruise Projects | |
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- Perhaps, though, there will be a new cast for a future MI series, for there is nothing terminal about the subject matter.
- The third season in 6 episodes was somewhat tiresome. Too much blood, too many deaths....what's the point?
- In addition, I couldn't remember relationships going back to the earlier series, which kind of makes you think about re-watching them.
- As has been the case for most series, there is a degradation of Rotten Tomatoes scores: Season 1 95/84, S2 83/63 and S3 78/51.
- All in all, the twists and emotional points add up, and there is now the intriguing prospects of a continuation.
- From the final scene, we see frontman In-ho peering into a Los Angeles alleyway at an American recruiter playing ddakji with a potential candidate for a future squid game. This recruiter is Cate Blanchett, and there are rumors anyway of a series being developed by David Fincher. There will be a continuation, but in the USA, for the Korean Squid Game is the most popular Netflix non-English series ever.
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