Hello fellow Hollywood box office folk. Long before I worked on a movie set I was obsessed with box office… if I had any idea what email I had used for that fantasy box office thing decade and a half ago I’d probably have a ton of fake money in there lol.
As @Andrew T did brilliantly in the much missed Dirty Laundry timeline let’s figure out effects of missing movies, added movies, different movies and how this effects that weekend in box office and perhaps beyond!
For fun let’s remove a movie that released three days before I was born: Explorers. Directed by of Gremlin fame Joe Dante and starring such people as River Phoenix it opened with ahuge paltry 3.6 million… good enough for sixth place. What do SF folk who watched that movie go see? Why almost certainly Back to the Future—perhaps enough to make it that rare film that does better in weekend 2. Or maybe all of them wanna see Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and that movie narrowly takes the weekend and therefore we probably see Mad Max 4 a few decades earlier than OTL….
As @Andrew T did brilliantly in the much missed Dirty Laundry timeline let’s figure out effects of missing movies, added movies, different movies and how this effects that weekend in box office and perhaps beyond!
For fun let’s remove a movie that released three days before I was born: Explorers. Directed by of Gremlin fame Joe Dante and starring such people as River Phoenix it opened with a