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Wtf I did not expect Moana to open lower than the new Minions, and barely higher than the original animation. I guess they've all been released too close together (like how often is the top 3 made up entirely of kids/family movies?) but I thought Minions would suffer the most. Will be interesting to see how they play out over the summer holidays. Having seen Moana this afternoon, I'm certainly not mad about this underwhelming opening, as poor critical reviews aren't going to stop Disney, but maybe box office figures will send them the message that they need to stop being so lazy.

Really hope Muchova takes it in the final, she feels well deserving of a slam now that she's made the last 4 (at least) of them all, and this seems like a great opportunity - before injury holds her back again. Noskova would just feel more random, despite being seeded a place higher. My gut says neither Zverev or Fery would beat Sinner in the final...it just depends whether Djokovic is able to pull a repeat of AO. If we end up with a Zverev/Sinner final then I have no interest in watching how it plays out.

I'm happy for Djokovic to have beaten FAA, as I have more hope for him taking out Sinner. Let's have a repeat of the Australian please Novak... Naomi was my top pick to win in the women's, now crossing fingers for a Muchova vs. Paolini final and then I'd be delighted either way.

I think this is Naomi's to lose now. The only woman left who is yet to drop a set, and she looked really impressive against Sabalenka - commentary said that Sabalenka had won 21 tie-break sets in a row at Slams? And a run of 14 Slams where she made it to at least the quarters, now over... She had a career best run at the French too, great to see her finding success outside of the hard courts. Brilliant to see Coco also having a career best Wimbledon run!

I'm glad that 'Obsession' is now ahead of 'Backrooms' in the weekly figures so will stay ahead in total, as I totally got the hype with the former but the latter was not for me. Also will love it if at current trajectory, 'Obsession' ends with a higher total than Grogu!

Second WTA final of the year for Emma tomorrow, hopefully this time she finally gets that second title, but I'd also be really happy for Donna Vekic too considering how narrowly she missed out on making the Wimbledon final two years ago.

Hoping for a repeat of Wimbledon, with an Italian man and a Polish woman winning. I'm ready for another completely random women's champion who never goes on to have any other notable success, it's been a while, and Mirra will get her slams at some point. Zverev winning is just not even worth thinking about. Even if he goes two sets up in the final, I'll remain in denial.

There's an advert for a food delivery app called Food Hub that I've started seeing at the cinema the past couple of months - were these people not embarrassed repeating "hubba hubba" over and over? Also, where is the gap in the market for this when we've already got Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat???!! Not specific to this year, but the Confused advert is atrocious, hate Helen #TeamMum

Obsession managing an increase whilst Backrooms opens with over £4m feels crazyyyy 😯 Not seen Backrooms yet, but so pleased to see Renate Reinsve get a commercial hit, and not just critical acclaim!

As someone who is quite squeamish when it comes to blood, gore, bodily harm etc, would I be looking away or watching through my fingers too much for this to be worth my time? I read the notes regarding the '18' classification on the BBFC website a few days ago and decided that it wouldn't be for me, but the glowing reviews keep on coming so it has me intrigued and I'm getting a bit of FOMO.. Trying to think of comparisons, the level of violence/gore in 'Sinners' was pretty fine for me for instance, but that was rated '15' and I find it easier to cope when it's clearly not real (like vampires, or the CGI animal in 'Send Help')

I never go back to 'Euphoria' anymore (even though I'll admit it was my favourite back in 2012, just as it was for the majority), I feel like overplay has ruined it forever for me. I only really get into it if I hear it somewhere completely random, but if it's on a Eurovision night out, it just feels like too much of a basic choice. So even though it wasn't my favourite of 2023 and in the heat of the moment I believed that the juries had robbed 'Cha Cha Cha', I much prefer 'Tattoo' and quite happily re-visit it. The staging is iconic and I particularly love the 'when the stars align then I'll be there' lyric, because it really did feel like the stars aligned for her to become the second double winner.

Agree with @Dobbo that the winners have been getting better recently - the most recent four are my top four! 1. The Code 2. Bangaranga 3. Tattoo 4. Wasted Love 5. Arcade 6. Toy 7. Zitti i Buoni 8. Stefania 9. 1944 10. Amar pelos dois "The Code" was my favourite of 2024 (in a very tight battle with Baby Lasagna), and when things settle I think "Bangaranga" will be the entry from this year that I go back to the most. A few years ago I probably would've put "Toy" and "Arcade" the other way round, I was very happy with the former as a winner, and found the latter fine but overrated. But "Toy" does grate these days. Salvador and Jamala were awful back to back winners for me, they were down in the bottom 3 of their respective years personally.

Disappointing to see that Alcaraz is having to sit out of two consecutive Slams. For goodness sake, we need someone to prevent Sinner from winning every single tournament he's in!

What a bomb for "Mother Mary", the anticipation must've just been from a very small circle of online gays (or there was only room for one popstar this week)! Can't have helped that cinemas showing it + showtimes appeared to be limited. At least Anne Hathaway won't need to dwell on it for too long and will be looking at a MUCH higher opening next weekend In comparison, I'm surprised "Rose of Nevada" did as well as it managed. I'd only heard of it by seeing the trailer a couple of times at Curzon in the past couple of weeks and as a result I thought it would be mostly just playing at Curzon/Everyman/Picturehouse etc and get a small, niche audience.

So grateful that 'Marty Supreme' did bigger things than the bore that was 'A Complete Unknown' when it comes to the Timmy movies. 'F1' being Brad Pitt's highest grossing movie worldwide feels crazy to me considering the length of his career, but I guess he's never played a superhero 'Snow White' making the top 30 doesn't feel too awful considering all the controversy + hate directed towards it. I'm glad that Rachel Zegler has managed to rebound, at least in terms of UK popularity, thanks to her theatre ventures. I didn't realise that 'Weapons' was that much of a hit. I need to get around to checking it out on streaming at some point as it's one of only two movies that had nominations in the top 8 categories of the Oscars this year that I haven't seen (and quite a big one to be missing, given it scored an acting win)!