Not sure it would make a huge difference. Chalamet seems like one of those people who will have a perpetual baby face. ;) So even if they wait, it still may require CGI if they want him to look older.
These are the Top 10 Fathom grosses. The current release of The Chosen certainly has an opportunity to top the list though these tend to fall off quickly, with the release in November 2022 starting over $8 million, but topping out at $14.6 million total. Most of the target audience seems to rush...
Final numbers seem to show Mean Girls at #1 as a good share of the action-movie audience was distracted by yesterday's NFL playoffs with The Beekeeper having a higher Sat to Sun drop.
Migration has managed to leg it out past $100 million domestic (over $200 million worldwide). Illumination manages to make their animated films at a reasonable cost (usually around $75 million), so it should end up profitable. Plus I saw several trailers for Despicable Me 4 during football, so...
This weekend's returns/expansions, presumably based on Oscar noms and lack of any big new films:
Poor Things
Searchlight Pictures
+890
American Fiction
Amazon Studios
+852
The Holdovers
Focus Features
+1,140
Oppenheimer
Universal Pictures
+1,008
Killers of the Flower Moon...
I don't think TCP is going to get much Oscar love. It was only nominated for two GG's and lost both of those. And Taraji P. Henson seems to be in the press this weekend, bitter about various aspects of the production.
As a child of the 80's, most anticipated is probably Beetlejuice 2. I love creature features so maybe also Wolf Man and Godzilla x Kong (though I still haven't yet watched Godzilla vs Kong).
The Watchers on June 7 appears to be the directorial debut of Ishana Shyamalan (daughter of M. Night). I think she was an AD on MNS' Old.
Not a whole lot on that list that gets me too excited, though I don't yet know much about most of them. Early year releases The Beekeeper and Argylle look fun.