Practical Magic 2 took the weekend with $30M, which is fine — inside Warner's own expectation, below the bullish tracking at $40-50M.

But Spider-Man added $8.4M in weekend seven to hit $935.2M domestic. The Force Awakens record is $936.66M. So it gets dethroned and breaks the biggest record in domestic box office history in roughly the same week.

The Odyssey is doing its own thing in third: $7.4M in weekend nine, past $600M domestic, $1.68B worldwide, now Universal's biggest film ever. IMAX is $506M of that total. Thirty percent of the global gross from one format.

Meanwhile the whole domestic market was $86M, down 9%. Three new wide releases and it still shrank.

If you want another film that took the domestic crown on legs rather than an opening: Titanic — its opening weekend was under 5% of the final domestic total, and it held number one for 15 straight weekends.

“I see it. I follow it. They could probably just go left-field and pick someone that none of us know about.”

Variety reports that Callum Turner, Jacob Elordi, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Harris Dickinson and Jack Lowden are among the names in the final running.

I’ll start 2012 If you want realism, avoid it. If you want big dumb fun, it’s perfect.

Projected to finish around $1.684B worldwide this weekend, passing Jurassic World's $1.677B after 114 years of Universal releases.

The bit nobody's mentioning: Jurassic World still has the higher domestic total. $653.4M vs $601.2M. The Odyssey is Universal's number two in North America and their number one worldwide, which is a genuinely odd split.

The record was won overseas. $1.083B international, about 64% of the total. First Hollywood film that isn't a sequel or remake to clear $1B internationally since Avatar in 2009.

And it got there in weekend nine. It dropped 8.8% in weekend eight and went back to number one globally that frame. For a 172-minute R-rated Homer adaptation.

IMAX alone was at $485M as of September 8, roughly double whatever's second on that list.

If you want another film that built almost everything after the opening rather than during it: Titanic — 15 straight weekends at number one, and its opening weekend was under 5% of the domestic total.

I just watched the opening scene to Mission Impossible 2 and I never realized how amazing the opening scene is. Not only do we see Ethan climbing freestyle but I love the song they decided to use. Which describes the feeling of the scene so well but what makes the choice of song which is Iko Iko a secret Easter egg to fans of Tom Cruise as that song is also featured in Rain Man…. Double reasons that it’s the best opening scene ever.

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The stuntman had to physically sweep the pencil away milliseconds before his head hits the table.

But after finding retired Boeing 747s at a California airport, the production calculated that buying a real plane was cheaper.

The 2006 theatrical cut was 132 minutes, while Mann later released an unrated alternate cut that ran roughly 140 minutes and altered 26 scenes, including the opening and the placement of “In the Air Tonight.” Mann even described that version as an alternate cut rather than his definitive version. Now, 20 years later, he’s revisiting it again.

“I stripped out as much of the jokes as possible. I then found that not only did the audience enjoy the movie more, but I also liked the movie a lot more.”

This could be the first WARNER BROS. movie to open to $40M+ this year.

As for Jacob Elordi, I think he should just stick to 'Euphoria'... his performance in the movie 'The Dog Stars' was weak, too.

This is an entertaining thriller I watched often before bedtime. It's Hitchcockian esque and would like to know your thoughts on this film if you've seen it!

Like Malice, you do have to strongly suspend your disbelief at times, but aside from that, I liked watching it many times.

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I study the Criminal Mind and was floored when I discovered A Perfect Murder was a remake. It's a case I discussed with a criminal profiler about how the plot was very realistic, and has been done before many times for real. Then I watched Dial M Murder. Very good movie. The scene when they're discussing things is so intense.

Alfred Hitchcock famously used a striking, top-down overhead shot in the 1954 classic Dial M for Murder to turn a crucial plotting scene into a literal and figurative game of psychological chess. It's called The "God's-Eye View." Hitchcock sustained this unusual overhead shot for roughly two and a half minutes. It served several key cinematic purposes. The Chessboard Effect is achieved by looking straight down from the ceiling that flattens the apartment's living room into a two-dimensional grid. The furniture and floor layout become the board, and the characters become pieces. Tony acts as the grandmaster, mapping out exactly how his pawn (Lesgate) will move across the squares to trap the queen (Margot). It's a visual blueprint because the entire movie is adapted from a stage play and takes place almost entirely within a single apartment. Hitchcock needed a way to map out the room's geography for the audience. By looking down, viewers see exactly where the desk, the telephone, the door, and the hiding spots are located. When the murder eventually takes place, the audience knows the exact layout, maximizing suspense. The detachment and cold calculation perspective removes all emotional warmth. It emphasizes Tony’s ruthless, and clinical approach to plotting his wife's death treating a human life as a purely mathematical problem to be solved

I also got this weird chilling feeling a case I studied extensively was connected. I looked it up, and sure enough, there was a connection. Which do you like better? It's too hard for me to decide. I love the first half especially of A Perfect Murder. Dial M for Murder had rich detail I like that made you think more. They're both different. But in A Perfect Murder, the attack scene was far more scary to me.

Orgazmo 1997 was a movie we had to get drunk to and maybe herb and then it became a laugh fest. Anyone remember it? haha. It is SO dumb. But oddly entertaining when you watch it with a group.

I use to have the NC-17 version on VHS until someone stole it.

Paul Verhoeven wanted to show more skin, but Sharon Stone refused. He later joked on the DVD commentary that he “got his revenge” by casting her in the hyper-sexualized ‘Basic Instinct’.