'A host of attractions both old and new are fueling an unusually strong first weekend of August. While Barbie is expected to three-peat at the top of the box office, two new titles — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and Meg 2: The Trench — will duke it out against Oppenheimer in what is turning out to be a closely contested fight for the number two spot.
Barbie added $17 million on its third Friday, having shot past the $400 million mark a day earlier. On the cusp of crossing half-a-billion domestically, the film is expected to generate $54 million this weekend, marking only a slight 45% drop from the previous frame. The satirical comedy, directed by Greta Gerwig, had grossed $93 million in its sophomore weekend, after launching with a record-breaking $162 million in its opening frame. Globally, Barbie is expected to hit (if not pass) the $1 billion mark by tomorrow, becoming only the second film of the year to cross the coveted milestone after The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Surfacing in second place is Meg 2, starring Jason Statham and directed by acclaimed British filmmaker Ben Wheatley. The film grossed $12 million on Friday, which includes the $3.2 million that it generated from Thursday previews. Meg 2 is a sequel to 2018’s The Meg, which launched to $45 million domestically, and concluded its run with $145 million. But a strong performance in China sent it past the half-billion mark worldwide. Reviews for Meg 2 have been harsh, to say the least, but at this stage it’s difficult to say what’ll be a bigger deterrent for the movie: competition, indifferent reviews, or China having essentially become a non-factor for Hollywood releases.
It's Going to Be a Tight Race for Number Two
Claiming the third spot with $9.3 million on Friday after debuting mid-week is Mutant Mayhem. The movie has generated $24 million so far, and is eyeing a $45 million haul across its extended five-day debut. Paramount’s animated franchise-starter is hoping to emulate the success of Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which was also produced on a similarly modest budget and went on to generate big bucks at the box office. As with Into the Spider-Verse, reviews for Mutant Mayhem have been excellent, and Paramount would be hoping for the film to restore the pride that was marginally lost because of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’s underwhelming commercial performance.
Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biographical thriller about the father of the atomic bomb will have to settle for the fourth spot, at least on Friday. Oppenheimer added just under $8 million on its third Friday, and passed the $200 million mark in record time for an R-rated film distributed by Universal. The film is expected to gross $28 million this weekend, which should be good enough for it to reclaim the number two spot for the third weekend in a row. At this rate, Oppenheimer is poised to become one of the highest grossing films to never have topped the box office...'
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spreadsheet cleanup
SPIDER-HAM
It skews the numbers when I don't clean up spreadsheet entries already on @MCOCwishlist or in @MarvelChampions.
~225 comics [ComicVine 234; Fandom I count* 217]
27 variants
9 other games
movie & TV
Before his MCOC debut, his Wishlist spot was 100% merited
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Spider-Ham’s record with us (mostly before he was added to MCOC)
Visit Spider-Ham’s official Ch “Ham”-pion Spotlight
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*Marvel.Fandom.com does not have a page dedicated—separately from other Peter Parkers—to all the variants of Peter Porker. The Fandom Peter Porker page just has a link to Peter Parker. This is understandable: Peter Porker variants are just the realities in which Peter Parker is a pig. But it meant manually finding all the pig versions of Peter Parker from Peter’s Fandom page, recording the number of appearances of each, and adding them up. So there’s no way to link to one page from which I got the cited number.
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Believe it or not, many Summoners have asked for a playable @MarvelChampions version of SPIDER-HAM. At last glance, Peter Porker ranked 54th most desired champ on the #MCOC community wishlist, with 111 Summoner upvotes. https://buff.ly/2E975sG
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They have teased him only once!
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