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Some delightful results over the past couple of weekends. Firstly, The Housemaid being a big fat HIT. I bet Sydney is going to be pushing hard for The Housemaid 2 to be made asap (I understand that there are two follow-up books for source material, that I think her character is in) Secondly, Marty Supreme beating Anaconda even during the initial limited release weekend, and then how much it's smashed when expanding. Word of mouth is extremely strong and I think Timothee is going to sweep awards season so it should keep ticking along nicely.

I've been following along earlier and more closely this year. Great to see 'Wicked: For Good' make the shortlists in technical categories, might not be as dead as thought from it missing a couple of major categories at precursors (Cynthia not in at Critics Choice, not in at Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical at the Globes) What I'm hearing is that the supporting categories are pretty open this year, but Timothee looks like a safe bet for his first Oscar in Best Actor, and Jessie Buckley has had Best Actress sewn up for a while for 'Hamnet' ( @Tafty to confirm)

Not 'Ella McCay' missing the top 15 - a bad time for movies where the title is a woman's name (I guess that can also apply to 'Eleanor the Great', but that one isn't a surprise to me as it seems to be a very small movie/release considering it's directed by Scarlett Johansson) Based on the showing I went to, the answer is underage kids! It's rated 15 but when I went on Sunday evening, there were two separate family groups that included kids/teens that were clearly under 15. At first I wondered if they'd wandered into the wrong screen by mistake (not sure about anyone else, but from my experience that seems surprisingly common)

I thought it was normally a December show, though having just checked, I see that it was a split-season affair last year and slightly earlier in the year. This is one of my favourite Netflix shows, excited to have it back.

I think this is the worst opening I've ever seen for a movie that I saw the trailer for SO much. I swear I saw it before everything I went to see for about 3 months. I know I'm just one person and maybe trailers vary across the country/cinema chains, and I don't go and see everything, but compare it to say 'Eternity' this week, I didn't see a trailer for that once yet the opening weekend is 7x better. Hope that Sydney Sweeney doesn't cause 'The Housemaid' to bomb at the end of this month too.

Most excited by the look of the opening heat based on names - Jacqline and A*Teens both with songs written by Dino/Jimmy Jansson/Cazzi/G:son Plus Greczula I really enjoyed this year, and there's a Laurell Barker co-write in the heat. Smash Into Pieces appear to be top of the initial odds, but I don't see it unless they've changed things up a bit (though I didn't expect the lazy re-write to manage another 3rd for them in 2024). My money would be on Greczula to come through with the "act who gets a good result on debut, then comes back the following year and wins" formula, but maybe we're in for another KAJ and the winning song is with the act we'd least expect.

'Christy' didn't even make the top 15? Oh Sydney Sweeney, your power. That's crazy as I know everyone hates her now and it bombed massively in the US, but I saw the trailer for it LOADS.

I had no idea that Jon M Chu directed Now You See Me 2, that makes the top 2 this week amusing Relieved that there's more love for Wicked in the UK than there is for Minecraft! I'm on holiday from Friday to Monday, and there are three movies being released this weekend that are essential watches for me ('Zootropolis 2', 'Christy' and 'Pillion' - plus I wouldn't mind checking out 'Blue Moon' if I get chance as I'm hearing buzz that Ethan Hawke could sneak an Oscar nom for it). The battle between Zootropolis 2 and week 2 of Wicked could be interesting.

I enjoyed the finale and the entire series, and can't wait to see what names they manage to get for a second series considering the huge success that this one has been, but I can't believe that anyone was willing to end the game with Alan still in. I love him, but the way he burst out laughing whilst trying to say "I am a faithful" at the end of the previous episode, it just boggles my mind that they didn't banish him.

Really impressed with that hold for "Regretting You"! I loved it personally, but the reviews are pretty poor so I didn't expect it to hold up that well, guess the lack of major competition helped. I'm pleased it's now ahead of the total of Springsteen, and that that is tracking behind "Better Man". What a bore of a biopic.

This is a fun concept! Anything involving 2024 and 2025 was an educated or total guess but it's a good format for being able to (hopefully) get a bit lucky a few times.

Ruth best not be murdered because she NEEDS to be at the roundtable when Jonathan gets banished and it's revealed that she's been bang on. 100% here for Jonathan being the first traitor to go. Feel bad for Tameka, don't know why they really went after her, it was just Mark with his suspicions and then her defending herself? Didn't feel like there was much evidence. Surprised Clare is already off the hook for her slip up in the first task.

Just catching up and when I said this in the other thread, "Flo RiDavid Guetta" was one of the two that I was confident on 😂 It worked as a smash and I just assumed it was another dance act. Can't believe some people got Ida Corr but didn't recognise Eurovision legend Flo Rida 😭 But omg, Emma Buntonight tonight was a complete fluke (I don't even think this is the one I considered I might 'luck out on', that's still to come 😁), I obviously knew Emma and then just came up with something that could smash with her surname and I'd recently been reminded of the hit by Hot Chelle Rae.

Oh I can't WAIT for that All-Stars season to happen (actually no, CBS please don't, no amount of pot stirring is worth having to put up with another season of Vince, I've seen enough of that man to last a lifetime)

Glad someone else paid tribute to such an ICONIC song @Calum