2024 At The Box Office (1 Viewer)

[Tino]

Well 2024 is upon us and with it another year of highly anticipated films. Which will thrill us and which will chill us?

Here is a list I found of upcoming films and release dates.

JANUARY 2024

January 3 (Wednesday)​

Self Reliance (One Night Only)

January 4 (Thursday)​

Society of the Snow (Netflix)

January 5 (Friday)​

Memory (Expands)
Night Swim
The Bricklayer (Theaters + VOD)
Good Grief (Netflix)
He Went That Way (Theaters)
Mayhem! (Theaters + VOD)
Race for Glory (Theaters + VOD)

January 12 (Friday)​

The Beekeeper (+ IMAX)
The Book of Clarence
Mean Girls
Pixar's Soul (Re-Release)
Destroy All Neighbors (Shudder)
Driving Madeleine (Theaters)
Inshallah a Boy (Theaters)
Lift (Netflix)
Role Play (Prime Video)
Self Reliance (Hulu)
The Settlers (Theaters)
T.I.M. (Theaters + VOD)

January 18 (Thursday)​

Sundance Film Festival (until January 28)

January 19 (Friday)​

The End We Start From (Expands)
I.S.S.
Origin (Expands)
The Breaking Ice (Theaters)
Cult Killer (Theaters)
Founders Day (Theaters)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Theaters)
The Kitchen (Netflix)
Sunrise (Theaters)
Wanted Man (Theaters + VOD)
Which Brings Me To You (Theaters)

January 26 (Friday)​

American Star (Theaters + VOD)
Housekeeping for Beginners (Theaters)
The Peasants (Theaters)
Sometimes I Think About Dying (Theaters)
Tótem (Theaters)
The Underdoggs (Prime Video)

FEBRUARY 2024

February 2 (Friday)​

Argylle
Disco Boy (Theaters)
Fitting In (Theaters)
How to Have Sex (Theaters)
The Monk and The Gun (Theaters)
Orion and the Dark (Netflix)
The Promised Land (Theaters)
Scrambled (Theaters)

February 9 (Friday)​

It Ends with Us
Lisa Frankenstein
Out of Darkness
Pixar's Turning Red (Re-Release)
Drift (Theaters)
Ennio (Theaters)
Molli and Max in the Future (Theaters)
The Taste of Things (Theaters)

February 14 (Wednesday)​

Amélie (Re-Release)
Bob Marley: One Love
Madame Web (+ IMAX)
What About Love

February 16 (Friday)​

Land of Bad
Io Capitano (Theaters)

February 23 (Friday)​

Drive-Away Dolls
Ordinary Angels
About Dry Grasses (Theaters)
The Invisible Fight (Theaters)
Red Right Hand (Theaters)
They Shot the Piano Player (Theaters)

MARCH 2024

March 1 (Friday)​

Dune: Part Two
Shayda (Theaters)
Spaceman (Netflix)

March 8 (Friday)​

Imaginary
Rayman's Big Movie
Damsel (Netflix)
Love Lies Bleeding (Theaters)

March 15 (Friday)​

1992 (Theaters)
The Animal Kingdom (Theaters)
DogMan (Theaters)
June Zero (Theaters)
Karaoke (Theaters)
On the Adamant (Theaters)

March 21 (Thursday)​

Road House (Prime Video)

March 22 (Friday)​

The American Society of Magical Negroes
Arthur the King
Pixar's Luca (Re-Release)
One Life
Club Zero (Theaters)
Femme (Theaters)
Late Night with the Devil (Theaters)

March 29 (Friday)​

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Kung Fu Panda 4
Mickey 17
Lousy Carter (Theaters)
Wicked Little Letters (Theaters)

APRIL 2024

April 5 (Friday)​

The First Omen
The People's Joker (Theaters)

April 12 (Friday)​

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
LaRoy (Theaters)

April 19 (Friday)​

Abducting Abigail
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (Netflix)
We Grown Now (Theaters)

April 26 (Friday)​

Challengers
Civil War (+ IMAX)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Theaters)


Summer 2024

MAY 2024

May 3 (Friday)​

The Fall Guy

May 10 (Friday)​

Horrorscope

May 14 (Tuesday)​

Cannes Film Festival (until May 25)

May 17 (Friday)​

IF - Imaginary Friends
The Strangers: Chapter 1

May 24 (Friday)​

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
The Garfield Movie
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

JUNE 2024

June 7 (Friday)​

Ballerina
The Watchers

June 14 (Friday)​

Bad Boys 4
Pixar's Inside Out 2

June 21 (Friday)​

The Bikeriders
Firebrand (Theaters)

June 28 (Friday)​

Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1
A Quiet Place: Day One

JULY 2024

July 3 (Wednesday)​

Despicable Me 4

July 12 (Friday)​

Project Artemis

July 19 (Friday)​

Twisters

July 26 (Friday)​

Captain America: Brave New World - 2025⤴
Deadpool 3

AUGUST 2024

August 2 (Friday)​

Harold and the Purple Crayon
Shyamalan's Trap

August 9 (Friday)​

Borderlands
Flint Strong
Speak No Evil

August 16 (Friday)​

Alien: Romulus
Horizon: An American Saga - Part 2

August 30 (Friday)​

Kraven the Hunter

SEPTEMBER 2024

September 6 (Friday)​

Beetlejuice 2

September 13 (Friday)​

Transformers One

September 20 (Friday)​

The Wild Robot
Wolfs

September 27 (Friday)​

Monkeypaw Movie
Saw XI

OCTOBER 2024

October 4 (Friday)​

Joker: Folie à Deux
White Bird

October 18 (Friday)​

Smile 2

October 25 (Friday)​

Terrifier 3
Wolf Man

NOVEMBER 2024

November 8 (Friday)​

The Amateur
Venom 3

November 15 (Friday)​

Alto Knights

November 22 (Friday)​

Gladiator 2

November 27 (Wednesday – Thanksgiving)​

The Incredibles
Wicked: Part One

DECEMBER 2024

December 13 (Friday)​

Karate Kid
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

December 20 (Friday)​

Mufasa: The Lion King
Sonic the Hedgehog 3

December 25 (Wednesday – Christmas Day)​

Jordan Peele Movie
Nosferatu

‹ 2023 Release Schedule | 2025 Release Schedule ›​

 

[Tino]

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[Tino]

Because this movie is actually better than Bad Boys 4. Bad Boys 4 is just a one-time action movie at best. And it's not very interesting.

Sure. But still I doubt anyone expected ROTK to beat it.

I'm not an expert in analytics of course, but I thought he was a better prospect.

Who’s “he”?

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

Maybe it's really just me, but I'm kinda sensing some chains being yanked, LOL...

_Man_

 

[Tino]

Box Office Ecstatic: ‘Inside Out 2’ Notching Historic Second Weekend For Animated Pic With $98M+​

Box Office Ecstatic: ‘Inside Out 2’ Notching Historic Second Weekend For Animated Pic With $98M+ – Saturday AM Update

'Inside Out 2' Headed To Historic Animated Second Weekend at Box Office with $95M

deadline.com

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

This makes me wonder how Moana 2 will do later this year in what seems like a much later than usual (TDay weekend) release date for such -- I was surprised to see that release date/timeframe when I saw the trailer (for my first time) the other day while catching Inside Out 2 (in RealD 3D) w/ a friend's kid.

Of course, that's besides the (sorta) live action Mufasa apparently also coming near Christmas after that...

_Man_

 

[TravisR]

This makes me wonder how Moana 2 will do later this year in what seems like a much later than usual (TDay weekend) release date for such -- I was surprised to see that release date/timeframe when I saw the trailer (for my first time) the other day while catching Inside Out 2 (in RealD 3D) w/ a friend's kid.

Disney has been releasing their animated movies around Thanksgiving for years.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(1)	Inside Out 2	Walt Disney	$100,000,000	-35%	4,440	n/c	$22,523	$355,183,116	2
2	(2)	Bad Boys: Ride or Die	Sony Pictures	$18,775,000	-44%	3,781	-104	$4,966	$146,911,000	3
3	N	The Bikeriders	Focus Features	$10,000,000		2,642		$3,785	$10,000,000	1
4	(4)	The Garfield Movie	Sony Pictures	$3,600,000	-24%	3,013	-398	$1,195	$85,142,000	5
5	(3)	Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes	20th Century…	$3,600,000	-35%	2,410	-190	$1,494	$164,396,089	7
6	(5)	IF	Paramount Pi…	$2,775,000	-23%	2,504	-502	$1,108	$106,613,000	6
7	N	The Exorcism	Vertical Ent…	$2,439,000		2,240		$1,089	$2,439,000	1
8	N	Thelma	Magnolia Pic…	$2,212,350		1,290		$1,715	$2,212,350	1
9	(6)	The Watchers	Warner Bros.	$1,940,000	-45%	2,423	-928	$801	$17,748,000	3
10	N	Rite Here Rite Now	Trafalgar Re…	$1,408,408		341		$4,130	$2,434,047	1
11	(7)	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga	Warner Bros.	$1,360,000	-49%	1,371	-503	$992	$66,062,000	5
12	(8)	The Fall Guy	Universal	$1,000,000	-39%	1,111	-552	$900	$90,027,000	8
13	N	Kinds of Kindness	Searchlight …	$350,000		5		$70,000	$350,000	1
14	(9)	The Strangers: Chapter 1	Lionsgate	$340,000	-55%	595	-432	$571	$34,782,880	6
15	(-)	Ghostlight	IFC Films	$247,000	+541%	502	+499	$492	$295,353	2
-	(-)	Robot Dreams	Neon	$126,053	+16%	90	+51	$1,401	$439,888	4
-	(-)	I Saw the TV Glow	A24	$90,160	-44%	110	-45	$820	$4,840,335	8
-	(12)	Tuesday	A24	$71,365	-76%	338	-316	$211	$637,590	3
-	(-)	Babes	Neon	$53,850	-55%	50	-48	$1,077	$3,654,699	6
-	N	Janet Planet	A24	$49,684		2		$24,842	$49,684	1
-	(-)	Treasure	Bleecker Street	$46,051	-83%	308	-342	$150	$511,181	2
-	(-)	Ezra	Bleecker Street	$28,521	-61%	73	-89	$391	$2,615,561	4
-	(-)	In a Violent Nature	IFC Films	$19,085	-80%	53	-150	$360	$4,211,598	4
-	(-)	Civil War	A24	$17,230	-52%	28	-7	$615	$68,752,103	11
-	(-)	Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant		$10,338		3		$3,446	$15,092	25
-	N	Green Border	Kino Lorber	$7,005		1		$7,005	$7,005	1
		26		$150,566,100

 

[Tino]

Amazing. Inside Out 2’s second weekend doubled all the other releases combined.

 

[Bryan^H]

I didn't expect Inside Out 2 to do so well. Great news.

 

[Tino]

I didn't expect Inside Out 2 to do so well. Great news.

I don’t think anyone really did. Good for show business that was in need of a huge hit.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I don’t think anyone really did. Good for show business that was in need of a huge hit.

Yeah, at this point I'm thrilled whenever a movie has a monster weekend, even when it's something I don't care anything about, because I want to see going to the cinema continue as a commercially-viable form of entertainment.

 

[Malcolm R]

Great couple weeks for theater owners with lots of families attending and kids demanding popcorn and candy.

 

[TravisR]

Amazing. Inside Out 2’s second weekend doubled all the other releases combined.

I figured that Inside Out 2 would have had about a 50% drop this weekend. That would have been about a $75 to $80 million second weekend which still would have been huge but everyone involved with the movie must be ecstatic with this performance.

Yeah, at this point I'm thrilled whenever a movie has a monster weekend, even when it's something I don't care anything about, because I want to see going to the cinema continue as a commercially-viable form of entertainment.

The only downside is that the message that Disney is getting is that Pixar sequels mean a billion dollars and original movies are garbage that only make hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

[Malcolm R]

The only downside is that the message that Disney is getting is that Pixar sequels mean a billion dollars and original movies are garbage that only make hundreds of millions of dollars.

I'd hope they're not jumping to that conclusion just yet. Really, the only original they've put into a traditional theatrical release since the pandemic is Elemental, which did OK at nearly $500 million. Prior to that Onward was caught up in the onset of the Covid pandemic, and Soul, Luca, and Turning Red were all premieres on D+ only.

Pixar also needs to figure out, like the rest of the studios, how to make films more economically. They're still spending $200 million to make these films. Illumination spends half that, or less, on their releases and often achieves similar grosses (franchises include Minions, Despicable Me, Super Mario Bros., Migration, Sing, Secret Life of Pets). Migration was still profitable with a gross just under $300 million worldwide because they only spent about $72 million to make it. Illumination's most expensive movie over the past 15 years was Super Mario Bros at $100 million (which grossed $1.36 Billion). Most of their films cost $80 million or less.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Pixar also needs to figure out, like the rest of the studios, how to make films more economically.

Bingo. That is the key to everything right now from theatrical tentpoles to premium streaming. The days of free money being thrown at projects without strings or expectations of returns are over.

In Disney’s specific case, they have long insisted on highly specific release dates and have been willing to spend top dollar to pay thousands upon thousands of people to work around the clock to complete projects with absurdly short turnaround times. They’re going to have to consider allowing productions more time to complete, and/or scale down how visually ambitious these projects are, in order to achieve that.

My local theater was smart with their “If” showtimes today, which we wound up seeing. They put “Inside Out 2” on as many screens as a smaller multiplex could afford to spare, and they also scheduled “If” showtimes starting shortly after IO2. When I bought our “If” tickets it was a pretty empty screening, but as IO2 showings sold out, the overflow traffic went to “If” - that was smart of them to do it that way so when they had to start turning away walk ups for IO2, they could offer another family film starting at about the same time as long as people were already there.

 

[TravisR]

Bingo. That is the key to everything right now from theatrical tentpoles to premium streaming. The days of free money being thrown at projects without strings or expectations of returns are over.

I know you guys are right but Pixar is the extremely rare time that I think a blank check is earned. Every one of their movies looks amazing & have technical breakthroughs that keep their movies at the top and part of that is due to the insane budgets.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Visually I love what Pixar does more often than not, so I think in their case if they have to adjust budgets, I’d hope that they would just allow more time to make each film rather than scaling back the ambitions. If Disney would accept that some kinds of films take 3 years to make instead of trying to squeeze that into 18 months to 2 years, they could get the same product for less money.

In terms of budget bloat, someone should write a textbook on Indy 5, which was a movie that I loved but cost way too much. They reportedly spent $100 million just on the first 20 minutes, and sure, the de-aging of Harrison Ford was among the best anyone has ever done that trick, but they could have cut the sequence down, utilized camera angles that didn’t show Ford as much, and went with makeup instead of CGI for Mads Mikkelson. Ford was also injured during production and rather than pause, they plowed through to keep their release date and instead used massive amounts of digital effects to hide Ford’s injury and the extensive use of doubles. I loved the end result but if they had cut the first sequence by ten minutes and delayed the film a year, that movie could have come in at $150 million instead of $300 million.

Disney has almost forgotten how to make those kinds of decisions that don’t compromise the final product but do make them more financially viable. I hope they figure it out.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

Disney has been releasing their animated movies around Thanksgiving for years.

Guess I just hadn't been paying attention, especially around that time of year...

The only downside is that the message that Disney is getting is that Pixar sequels mean a billion dollars and original movies are garbage that only make hundreds of millions of dollars.

Yeah... and probably not just Pixar sequels, but just certain kinds of franchise flix possibly at the expense of anything else quite that good.

I actually do generally like (most) Pixar flix, but kinda meh on the Inside Out ones (both the original and this sequel) even though my expectations were definitely not high going into this sequel. I suspect I'll probably like Moana 2 much more... though not sure if I'll actually see that in a theater.

I know you guys are right but Pixar is the extremely rare time that I think a blank check is earned. Every one of their movies looks amazing & have technical breakthroughs that keep their movies at the top and part of that is due to the insane budgets.

I don't know. Feels like Pixar had become less consistent/reliable and been going downhill a fair bit in recent years...

_Man_

 

[Jake Lipson]

Disney has been releasing their animated movies around Thanksgiving for years.

Yeah. I think Disney would ideally like to have a major Walt Disney Animation Studios film release every year at Thanksgiving until the sun burns out if they can manage that.

This is such a common time frame for them that the two most recent Disney Animation releases that did not release at Thanksgiving are Zootopia (March 2016) and Raya and the Last Dragon (March 2021.) Zootopia went in March because Pixar had The Good Dinosaur in November 2015. Raya was originally intended for November 2020 but went in March because of Covid delays. Naturally, Zootopia 2 is occupying the Thanksgiving release slot next year.

 

[Malcolm R]

Visually I love what Pixar does more often than not, so I think in their case if they have to adjust budgets, I’d hope that they would just allow more time to make each film rather than scaling back the ambitions. If Disney would accept that some kinds of films take 3 years to make instead of trying to squeeze that into 18 months to 2 years, they could get the same product for less money.

Agree. Their spending may result in films that are visually stunning and at the forefront of animation technology, but if they're so expensive as to be unprofitable based on a reasonable box office gross, it's hard to pay for your staff salaries and studio overhead to keep making the films. Not every film is going to gross over a billion dollars and you can't run a studio expecting that's going to be the result every time. Those instances should be pleasant surprises, not a bar below which the film is considered a "failure".

That's why I used Illumination as an example. They seem to have found that sweet spot where they can make slick, entertaining films that audiences respond to, while keeping costs reasonable and reaching profitability without each film needing to be a massive billion-dollar blockbuster. If you spend $80-100 million, you can break even at $250-300 million worldwide.

One would also think that Pixar has been doing these films long enough that there would be some savings or economies of scale realized in the refinement of the technologies and process. That never seems to happen as they've been spending around $200 million per film for years and years.