With $393 million grossed domestically, “Maverick” will pass the North American total of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” this coming week and join “Titanic” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” as only the third Paramount release to gross over $400 million domestically. Despite losing premium format support to “Jurassic,” Tom Cruise’s most successful blockbuster ever only fell 44% from its $86 million second weekend. While the dinosaurs ruled the box office, Paramount/Skydance’s “Top Gun: Maverick” is still performing excellently in its third weekend with a $50 million total. India, Malaysia and Spain all also saw openings of over $5 million.Ĭan ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Reach $1 Billion Despite Stiff Competition? and Ireland - fifth highest ever for Universal - $9.7 million in France, $8.5 million in Australia and $7.5 million in Germany. Other leading overseas results for “Dominion” include $15.4 million from the U.K. While theaters are reopening and capacity restrictions are loosening in many regions, roughly 20% of cinemas are still closed in China, including all locations in Shanghai.
Though that is less than half of the $111 million opening that “Fallen Kingdom” earned in China, this result is a win for both Universal and Chinese theaters at a time when few Hollywood blockbusters have gotten a release in the country and exhibitors are coming out of another dry spell fueled by COVID-19 outbreaks. Overseas, “Dominion” got a boost from the $52.5 million opening earned in China. Even with Pixar’s “Lightyear” likely to peel off general audiences in addition to families, the audience word-of-mouth and sheer spectacle of “Jurassic World” should allow it to leg out. The audience, largely driven by moviegoers under 35, gave the film an A- on CinemaScore and a 79% Rotten Tomatoes audience score. The blockbuster will get there despite negative reviews with a 30% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. Here are our 30 essential LGBTQ+ comedy movies, in order of release.‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Review: Reuniting the ‘Park’ Stars Just Makes This ‘World’ Look Shabbier
The fight for equal rights may go on ad infinitum, but so too will the laughter, the drag, and the happy-cry love stories. But even though queer culture has reached a much broader level of awareness than when The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert came out, its sharp-edged activist spirit still lives loud in directors like Greg Araki ( Kaboom) and Darren Stein ( G.B.F.). The pioneering work of stars like Divine and filmmakers like Pedro Almodóvar paved the way for a family-friendly lesbian Cyrano de Bergerac in The Half of It and a three-way battle of tops in an Academy Award darling like the acid-laced The Favourite. įrom the lo-fi beginnings of John Waters to New Queer Cinema to the present day wave of queer coming-of-age movies popping up on Netflix, queer comedy has gone from the underground to the mainstream. There is plenty of tenderness among these films to be sure, but there’s also Robin Williams doing a macho drag impersonation of John Wayne in The Birdcage and a pair of dirtbag girls just trying to scrape up enough cash for a beach trip in Never Goin’ Back. And while there is much to learn from and much to love about the many heavy gay dramas out there, we must also take time to celebrate and revel in the bright side of difference, which is why this list is all about the comedies. Queer culture is so many vibrant and beautiful and rambunctious things, but often times when you’re wading through the history of queer cinema it can feel like a community defined by tragedy and unhappy endings. (Photo by © Gramercy/courtesy Everett Collection) 30 Essential LGBTQ+ Comedies