Public Service Reminder: TOP GUN: MAVERICK was the #1 movie last summer with $718M domestic ($1.49B worldwide)--over $300M ahead of the nearest competitor.

@ERCboxoffice Honestly, has there ever been a movie where even the wildest of pre-release projections would be so far off the actual numbers?

@WanderingNoma14 @ERCboxoffice Ghost 1990

@BasicInteger @ERCboxoffice Good call. That film was such a massive success. The Sixth Sense would be a good candidate as well.

@WanderingNoma14 @BasicInteger @ERCboxoffice I mean Paranormal Activity was made for $15k and wasn’t even in 1,000 theaters until it’s 5th week and made $194 million so I’d have to declare that the ultimate winner of exceeding expectations lol

@BrieNN365 @WanderingNoma14 @BasicInteger Or BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.

@ERCboxoffice @BrieNN365 @WanderingNoma14 How about the other direction? Lightyear has to be a more recent candidate. A Pixar movie in the greater Toy Story universe? It could have opened with what was its final domestic gross.

@BasicInteger @ERCboxoffice @WanderingNoma14 At least personally, I thought that movie was DOA the second it was announced. It was a confusing premise with a mystifying marketing campaign. For me it Shazam 2. I didn’t have high hopes but it honestly did worse than the deepest basement of my expectations.

@BrieNN365 @ERCboxoffice @WanderingNoma14 I thought the movie was stupid from its announcement, but never expected it to perform so poorly given its importance to the studio and money spent advertising. Credit to the audience for staying away from this turd.

@BasicInteger @ERCboxoffice @WanderingNoma14 Is any movie a bigger question mark than Aquaman 2? The original was very quietly the highest grossing DCEU movie ever but with that universe being scrapped I just have no idea what to expect with that…like how will it compare to The Marvels?