2024 At The Box Office (3 Viewers)

[Colin Jacobson]

If you spend time on places like this board, it wasn't. I can absolutely understand why someone who maybe only saw the trailer and likes the original film but didn't do a lot of research before going to the movie would be surprised by this and I think they would be justified in being annoyed. I love musicals, but deceiving the audience is not a good strategy.

But if these people are "online" enough to complain online, then they shoulda been "online" enough to know what to expect.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(1)	Mean Girls	Paramount Pi…	$11,700,000	-59%	3,826	+35	$3,058	$50,049,000	2
2	(2)	The Beekeeper	MGM	$8,481,525	-49%	3,330	+27	$2,547	$31,135,000	2
3	(3)	Wonka	Warner Bros.	$6,440,262	-24%	3,136	-210	$2,054	$187,168,000	6
4	(4)	Anyone But You	Sony Pictures	$5,400,000	-24%	2,928	-7	$1,844	$64,222,000	5
5	(5)	Migration	Universal	$5,300,000	-15%	3,094	-130	$1,713	$94,672,000	5
6	(6)	Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom	Warner Bros.	$3,655,284	-30%	2,423	-318	$1,509	$114,190,000	5
7	N	I.S.S.	Bleecker Street	$3,022,868		2,520		$1,200	$3,022,868	1
8	(7)	Night Swim	Universal	$2,700,000	-42%	2,708	-549	$997	$23,754,000	3
9	(9)	The Boys in the Boat	MGM	$2,534,977	-26%	2,012	+5	$1,260	$43,862,000	4
10	(-)	Poor Things	Searchlight …	$2,043,000	+14%	1,400	+820	$1,459	$20,396,304	7
11	N	Queen Rock Montreal	IMAX Films	$2,000,000		387		$5,168	$2,000,000	1
12	(13)	American Fiction	MGM	$1,800,344	-5%	225	-400	$8,002	$8,004,000	6
13	(11)	The Iron Claw	A24	$1,624,066	-32%	1,321	-270	$1,229	$32,089,796	5
14	(10)	The Book of Clarence	Sony Pictures	$1,100,000	-57%	2,010	n/c	$547	$4,673,000	2
-	(-)	Origin	Neon	$875,000		125		$7,000	$992,063	7
-	(-)	The Boy and the Heron	GKIDS	$814,529	-29%	580	-30	$1,404	$43,195,852	7
-	(14)	The Color Purple	Warner Bros.	$719,795	-61%	781	-397	$922	$59,282,000	4
-	(-)	Godzilla Minus One	Toho Interna…	$667,000	-25%	535	-70	$1,247	$51,891,461	8
-	(-)	The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes	Lionsgate	$570,000	-5%	1,115	+382	$511	$165,850,945	10
-	(-)	All of Us Strangers	Searchlight …	$533,000	+15%	295	+175	$1,807	$2,316,472	5
-	(-)	The Zone of Interest	A24	$447,684	+88%	82	+57	$5,460	$1,556,770	6
-	(-)	Trolls Band Together	Universal	$350,000	-31%	478	-140	$732	$101,884,000	10
-	(-)	Ferrari	Neon	$278,000	-56%	327	-335	$850	$18,102,928	4
-	(-)	Oppenheimer	Universal	$220,000	-41%	254	+115	$866	$326,934,000	27
-	(-)	Wish	Walt Disney	$151,000	-35%	185	-210	$816	$63,360,216	9
-	(-)	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Sony Pictures	$150,000		466		$322	$381,462,000	34
-	(-)	Soul	Walt Disney	$131,000	-70%	1,350	n/c	$97	$845,516	2
-	(-)	The Holdovers	Focus Features	$70,000	-21%	127	+27	$551	$18,760,000	13
-	(-)	Anselm	Janus Films	$32,585	+3%	18	-6	$1,810	$338,293	7
-	(-)	Memory	Ketchup Ente…	$16,000	-85%	198	+47	$81	$363,103	5
-	N	Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell	Kino Lorber	$12,609		2		$6,305	$12,609	1
-	(-)	Radical	Pantelion Films	$6,850	-21%	15	-1	$457	$8,692,952	12
-	N	Pasang: In The Shadow of Everest	A Slice of P…	$4,500		2		$2,250	$4,500	1
		33		$63,851,878

 

[Jake Lipson]

-59% seems like a steep drop for Mean Girls. It does seem like the word of mouth is not the best. However, the budget was reasonable so it will probably still end up being profitable. It was originally intended to go directly to Paramount+, so whatever money they get in theaters is more than it would have made if it had bypassed theaters.

On the other hand, -24% is another very good hold for Anyone But You. I caught up with that this weekend after being sick when it first came out. I thought it was really fun. I was the only person at my screening. I didn't buy the theater out to do that; it just happened. But based on its gross, other audiences were turning up for it somewhere else

 

[Malcolm R]

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	Paramount Pictures	+925​
Thanksgiving	Sony Pictures	+508​

Thanksgiving must be due to lack of any current horror titles other than the fading Night Swim.

 

[Wayne_j]

My local arthouse added The Zone of Interest and Past Lives. This is good since I haven't seen these yet.

 

[Jake Lipson]

This is the first weekend in a while where I'm not going to see anything.

 

[Tino]

Chart Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(2)	The Beekeeper	MGM	$7,421,382	-14%	3,337	+7	$2,224	$42,288,291	3
2	(1)	Mean Girls	Paramount Pi…	$7,300,000	-37%	3,544	-282	$2,060	$60,805,000	3
3	(3)	Wonka	Warner Bros.	$5,910,000	-12%	3,014	-122	$1,961	$195,173,000	7
4	(4)	Migration	Universal	$5,150,000	-6%	2,962	-132	$1,739	$101,254,000	6
5	(5)	Anyone But You	Sony Pictures	$4,800,000	-11%	2,885	-43	$1,664	$71,196,000	6
6	N	Fighter	Viva Enterta…	$3,650,000		662		$5,514	$4,210,000	1
7	(10)	Poor Things	Searchlight …	$3,048,000	+43%	2,300	+890	$1,325	$24,792,797	8
8	(12)	American Fiction	MGM	$2,896,728	+65%	1,702	+852	$1,702	$11,843,226	7
9	(6)	Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom	Warner Bros.	$2,820,000	-23%	2,118	-305	$1,331	$118,102,000	6
10	(-)	Godzilla Minus One	Toho Interna…	$2,600,000	+276%	535	n/c	$4,860	$55,009,463	9
11	(9)	The Boys in the Boat	MGM	$2,213,597	-13%	1,869	-143	$1,184	$47,466,805	5
12	(8)	Night Swim	Universal	$2,100,000	-25%	2,258	-450	$930	$26,805,000	4
13	(-)	Origin	Neon	$1,462,500	+77%	125	n/c	$11,700	$2,620,028	8
14	(7)	I.S.S.	Bleecker Street	$1,366,993	-55%	2,502	-18	$546	$5,569,215	2
15	(13)	The Iron Claw	A24	$1,089,413	-30%	926	-395	$1,176	$33,801,616	6
-	(-)	The Zone of Interest	A24	$1,084,336	+142%	317	+235	$3,421	$3,003,787	7
-	(-)	Oppenheimer	Universal	$1,000,000	+284%	1,262	+1,008	$792	$328,159,000	28
-	(-)	The Boy and the Heron	GKIDS	$660,932	-22%	610	+30	$1,083	$44,237,878	8
-	(-)	The Holdovers	Focus Features	$520,000	+568%	1,267	+1,140	$410	$19,345,000	14
-	(14)	The Book of Clarence	Sony Pictures	$437,000	-60%	669	-1,341	$653	$5,560,000	3
-	(-)	The Color Purple	Warner Bros.	$430,000	-42%	503	-278	$855	$60,004,000	5
-	(-)	All of Us Strangers	Searchlight …	$402,000	-28%	275	-20	$1,462	$3,033,120	6
-	N	Miller’s Girl	Lionsgate	$321,000		350		$917	$321,000	1
-	(-)	Trolls Band Together	Universal	$270,000	-29%	351	-127	$769	$102,264,000	11
-	(-)	The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes	Lionsgate	$230,000	-60%	1,115	n/c	$206	$166,283,795	11
-	(-)	Killers of the Flower Moon	Paramount Pi…	$220,000	+3,811%	941	+925	$234	$67,605,000	15
-	(-)	Anatomy of a Fall	Neon	$211,500	+440%	25	n/c	$8,460	$4,194,869	16
-	(-)	Ferrari	Neon	$132,000	-52%	327	n/c	$404	$18,367,996	5
-	(-)	Wish	Walt Disney	$122,000	-23%	155	-30	$787	$63,525,149	10
-	(-)	Thanksgiving	Sony Pictures	$81,000	+87,943%	511	+508	$159	$31,904,599	11
-	N	Sometimes I Think About Dying	Oscilloscope…	$40,460		2		$20,230	$40,460	1
-	(-)	The Sweet East	Utopia	$23,069	+403%	3	n/c	$7,690	$163,115	9
-	N	TÓTEM	Janus Films	$11,402		1		$11,402	$11,402	1
-	N	American Star	IFC Films	$9,001		47		$192	$9,001	1
-	(-)	Memory	Ketchup Ente…	$5,500	-66%	81	-117	$68	$378,931	6
-	(-)	Radical	Pantelion Films	$4,825	-30%	15	n/c	$322	$8,701,644	13
		36		$60,044,638

 

[Jake Lipson]

Wow -- the margin between Mean Girls at #2 and The Beekeeper at #1 is razor thin. Those could potentially swap places tomorrow when the actuals for Sunday come in.

-11% is another great hold for Anyone But You. I saw it last weekend and it is a really fun movie, so I am glad to see it doing well. I would not initially have expected it to outgross The Color Purple among Christmastime releases, but here we are.

That being said, when you've got two movies at $7 million topping the chart, yikes. I doubt I would have much reason be happy this weekend if I owned a theater.

I didn't go to anything this weekend. I would go see Sometimes I Think About Dying if I could but neither of the two (!) theaters listed as showing it are around here. I wonder how far it will expand.

 

[Malcolm R]

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 that will be a huge film for them coming up.

 

[Malcolm R]

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.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Deadline:

Mean Girls‘ Sunday was $1.7M, -48% from Saturday, while Beekeeper‘s take was $1.48M.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Argylle	Universal	$18,000,000		3,605		$4,993	$18,000,000	1
2	N	The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes 1-3	Fathom Events	$6,035,823		2,263		$2,667	$7,469,039	1
3	(2)	The Beekeeper	MGM	$5,286,616	-21%	3,277	-60	$1,613	$49,428,992	4
4	(3)	Wonka	Warner Bros.	$4,765,000	-16%	2,901	-113	$1,643	$201,121,000	8
5	(4)	Migration	Universal	$4,110,000	-16%	2,830	-140	$1,452	$106,179,000	7
6	(1)	Mean Girls	Paramount Pi…	$4,000,000	-42%	3,107	-437	$1,287	$66,391,000	4
7	(5)	Anyone But You	Sony Pictures	$3,500,000	-24%	2,619	-266	$1,336	$76,282,000	7
8	(10)	American Fiction	MGM	$2,301,532	-11%	1,902	+200	$1,210	$15,013,037	8
9	(7)	Poor Things	Searchlight …	$2,128,000	-27%	1,950	-350	$1,091	$28,184,223	9
10	(8)	Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom	Warner Bros.	$2,015,000	-26%	1,742	-376	$1,157	$120,789,000	7
11	(11)	Night Swim	Universal	$1,510,000	-25%	1,700	-568	$888	$28,806,000	5
12	(12)	The Boys in the Boat	MGM	$1,369,083	-31%	1,526	-343	$897	$49,551,471	6
-	(15)	The Zone of Interest	A24	$1,109,117	+9%	594	+277	$1,867	$4,595,616	8
-	(-)	The Iron Claw	A24	$641,695	-34%	634	-292	$1,012	$34,735,300	7
-	(14)	Origin	Neon	$635,000	-52%	631	-33	$1,006	$3,548,491	9
-	(-)	The Boy and the Heron	GKIDS	$433,121		394		$1,099	$44,939,495	9
-	(13)	I.S.S.	Bleecker Street	$280,889	-79%	814	-1,688	$345	$6,338,025	3
-	(-)	All of Us Strangers	Searchlight …	$253,000	-40%	150	-105	$1,687	$3,540,164	7
-	(-)	Oppenheimer	Universal	$215,000	-77%	579	-689	$371	$328,744,000	29
-	(-)	The Book of Clarence	Sony Pictures	$205,000	-52%	231	-438	$887	$5,917,000	4
-	(-)	Trolls Band Together	Universal	$200,000	-23%	293	-59	$683	$102,501,000	12
-	(-)	The Holdovers	Focus Features	$171,000	-66%	562	-708	$304	$19,758,000	15
-	(-)	Anatomy of a Fall	Neon	$117,000	-40%	220	-160	$532	$4,413,930	17
-	(-)	Wish	Walt Disney	$81,000	-28%	130	-25	$623	$63,622,825	11
-	N	How to Have Sex	MUBI	$52,008		4		$13,002	$52,008	1
-	(-)	Ferrari	Neon	$52,000	-58%	103	-67	$505	$18,471,657	6
-	(-)	Killers of the Flower Moon	Paramount Pi…	$41,000	-80%	286	-655	$143	$67,771,000	16
-	(-)	Anselm	Janus Films	$27,750		9		$3,083	$411,775	9
-	(-)	TÓTEM	Janus Films	$16,690	+61%	5	+4	$3,338	$32,411	2
		29		$59,552,324

 

[Wayne_j]

Is this the highest a Fathom Event has ranked on a weekend chart?

 

[Tino]

Is this the highest a Fathom Event has ranked on a weekend chart?

What film?

Edit. Never mind. It may well be.

 

[TravisR]

Is this the highest a Fathom Event has ranked on a weekend chart?

It must be. Granted, it has the advantage of having more shows than nearly all Fathom Events all weekend too.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Fathom has done theatrical screenings for episodes of this series before that have done very well so it may be tying itself.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Even though Fathom is distributing The Chosen, it has a number of screenings that are comparable to other new release films. So I don't think that is an apples-to-apples comparison with the limited number of screenings that they normally do for old movies, operas, etc.

 

[Malcolm R]

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 out on opening weekend.

 

[TravisR]

Isn't The Chosen playing different episodes each week too?

 

[Jake Lipson]

Isn't The Chosen playing different episodes each week too?

I checked and it looks like it will change every other week. This is episodes 4-6 will start February 15. Episodes 7 and 8 start February 29. (I looked this up.). They have shown certain episodes before, but I think this is the first time they have decided to screen an entire season theatrically. It will be interesting to see if there is a falloff in grosses for the subsequent episodes or if they all perform similarly to this.

I have no interest in the series at all, but if it helps drive traffic to theaters during this slow period for major studio releases, that is a good thing.