2024 At The Box Office (2 Viewers)

[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 ›​

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I hate to date myself by admitting I know and lived through this, but they had huge multiplexes with 20+ screens back when Titanic came out. Studios would send out multiple prints for their expected major hits. Projection booths were also interlinked and had complex setups that could allow one print to be shared among multiple auditoriums for both duplicate and varying showtimes. It might not have been as easy to do as it is today, but it was done routinely in venues large and small and theaters then also had actual projectionists who could make it all fly. Sometimes they’d have it set up so that one print would physically run through multiple rooms, while other times they just wouldn’t platter the individual reels and would use multiple projectors with changeovers so that each 20 minute reel could be walked from one setup to the next as each chunk finished playing. Online ticketing existed back then, and while reserved seating was rarer, shows did sell out in advance. Ticketing by phone was also very popular at the time.

If you wanna get your mind blown by the type of complexity that used to be routine, see if you can find some photos of multiplex booths back in those days. The way they had film chains set up in various locations was a thing to behold.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I hate to date myself by admitting I know and lived through this, but they had huge multiplexes with 20+ screens back when Titanic came out.

I should have been more clear. I meant online ticketing and looking at seating charts in advance of going to the theater to know what seats remain available didn't exist when Titanic came out.

 

[Desslar]

Sure. That's absolutely valid. But Titanic in 1997 was a very different situation than our modern box office. Huge multiplexes with double digit screen counts can accommodate additional screenings of big hits as needed because most of them are showing the movie digitally. In the '90s, the theaters were limited by the number of prints of the movie that they had on hand.

Online ticketing and the rise of reserved seating has made it easy to look at the seating charts before you go to the theater. As far as I know, those options didn't exist back then.

In 1997 Japan, reserved seating existed at some theaters, but as far as I was aware it was not possible to reserve seats by phone (maybe I was just ignorant). Most major theaters were located in big shopping districts, so we'd go to the theater and reserve the next available seats, then go eat lunch or shop or whatever.

I hate to date myself by admitting I know and lived through this, but they had huge multiplexes with 20+ screens back when Titanic came out.

Definitely nothing that big in Japan in 1997. Most theaters maxed out at around 5 screens. I think the first real multiplex where I was (Osaka) had just recently opened (by Warner Brothers) with about 10 screens, but it was located at least 30 minutes by train outside downtown so it wasn't really on my radar.

I see a lot of discussion of 20+ screen megaplexes in this thread, but here in the DC metro area today I am not aware of any theaters that big. 16 screens seems to be the biggest.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Despicable Me 4	Universal	$75,000,000		4,428		$16,938	$122,620,000	1
2	(1)	Inside Out 2	Walt Disney	$30,000,000	-48%	3,760	-680	$7,979	$533,823,699	4
3	(2)	A Quiet Place: Day One	Paramount Pi…	$21,000,000	-60%	3,688	-20	$5,694	$94,356,000	2
4	N	MaXXXine	A24	$6,705,038		2,450		$2,737	$6,705,038	1
5	(4)	Bad Boys: Ride or Die	Sony Pictures	$6,550,000	-37%	2,644	-668	$2,477	$177,359,000	5
6	(3)	Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1	Warner Bros.	$5,480,000	-50%	3,334	n/c	$1,644	$22,192,000	2
7	N	Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot	Angel Studios	$3,219,811		2,200		$1,464	$6,811,094	1
8	(5)	Kalki 2898-AD	Prathyangira…	$1,834,000	-65%	625	-424	$2,934	$16,500,000	2
9	(6)	The Bikeriders	Focus Features	$1,300,000	-61%	1,562	-1,130	$832	$19,336,000	3
10	(9)	Kinds of Kindness	Searchlight …	$860,000	-45%	920	+430	$935	$3,833,371	3
-	(-)	The Fall Guy	Universal	$820,000	+116%	386	-127	$2,124	$92,114,000	10
-	(-)	Thelma	Magnolia Pic…	$790,000	-41%	1,274	+54	$620	$6,848,544	3
-	(8)	Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes	20th Century…	$638,000	-64%	700	-950	$911	$169,635,255	9
-	(7)	The Garfield Movie	Sony Pictures	$510,000	-75%	806	-956	$633	$91,066,000	7
-	(11)	IF	Paramount Pi…	$315,000	-79%	445	-807	$708	$110,757,000	8
-	(-)	Blue Lock The Movie -Episode Nagi-	Crunchyroll	$175,000	-83%	857	n/c	$204	$1,665,000	2
-	(-)	Janet Planet	A24	$91,847	-51%	90	-225	$1,021	$505,018	3
-	N	Hijack 1971	Sony Pictures	$72,000		62		$1,161	$72,000	1
-	(-)	Robot Dreams	Neon	$30,800	-37%	38	-18	$811	$631,637	6
-	(-)	Seven Samurai	Janus Films	$19,000		1		$19,000	$290,736	3,529
		20		$155,410,496

 

[Malcolm R]

Anyone know what's with The Fall Guy this weekend? It dropped 127 screens but the gross increased 116% over last weekend.

 

[Jake Lipson]

It dropped 127 screens but the gross increased 116% over last weekend.

Yeah, that's weird. I haven't paid much attention to The Fall Guy since I saw it opening weekend. So I wouldn't swear to this. But I think my theater was showing it like twice a day or so last week, sharing a screen with something else. This week, it is back to screening all day in its own dedicated auditorium. So, in my theater at least, it has the potential to gross more this weekend than it did last weekend with fewer showtimes.

I noticed this because Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes actually closed here this week. I thought it was odd that The Fall Guy stuck around longer, even though Apes has easily outgrossed it on a national level and opened a week later.

 

[Desslar]

I thought Bad Boys was doing fairly well ($360 million worldwide, but now that I look at the numbers I see it is running well behind the 2nd and 3rd films ( $467 million and $520 million - adjusted for inflation).

Wonder if it has enough gas left to catch up.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I thought Bad Boys was doing fairly well

It is doing fairly well. A sequel doesn't necessarily have to outgross its predecessor in order to do well. Of course, it would be nice if it did that. But I don't think that's a requirement. A gross of $360 million to date on a $100 million budget is probably either already profitable or very close to it, depending on how much they spent on marketing.

 

[Tino]

A gross of $360 million to date on a $100 million budget is probably either already profitable or very close to it, depending on how much they spent on marketing.

Definitely profitable at this point.

 

[tarinyanaka]

I thought Bad Boys was doing fairly well ($360 million worldwide, but now that I look at the numbers I see it is running well behind the 2nd and 3rd films ( $467 million and $520 million - adjusted for inflation).

Wonder if it has enough gas left to catch up.

Not likely anymore, although it wasn't the worst movie ever made.

 

[Jake Lipson]

although it wasn't the worst movie ever made.

Did anyone say it is?

 

[Desslar]

It is doing fairly well. A sequel doesn't necessarily have to outgross its predecessor in order to do well. Of course, it would be nice if it did that. But I don't think that's a requirement.

I think that was certainly true in the 80s when sequels were often low effort cash grabs, but today it seems that sequels that make significantly less than their predecessors get a lot of negative headlines. Quantumania for example.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Quantumania for example.

Quantumania got negative headlines because Disney spent significantly more to make it than they did for the previous Ant-Man films. Therefore, its significantly lower box office was a problem. If Disney had spent less money to make Quantumania, it would not have had as high a bar for success.

Ride or Die doesn't need to make more than its predecessors because Sony budgeted it responsibly. As @Tino said, it is definitely profitable. The fact that some of the other films in its franchise made more doesn't mean it isn't profitable.

 

[Malcolm R]

I'm kind of amazed that the Bad Boys franchise continued after the second film. For some reason, they massively increased the budget from the first to the second (5x or more), despite rather tepid grosses for the first film. I guess partly because Will Smith blew up after the first film with Independence Day and Men in Black. The second film was not profitable by the general box office evaluation yardstick. They pulled back the budgets on the third and fourth films

 

[Desslar]

I'm kind of amazed that the Bad Boys franchise continued after the second film. For some reason, they massively increased the budget from the first to the second (5x or more), despite rather tepid grosses for the first film. I guess partly because Will Smith blew up after the first film with Independence Day and Men in Black. The second film was not profitable by the general box office evaluation yardstick. They pulled back the budgets on the third and fourth films

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The first Bad Boys film was originally conceived not as an action blockbuster but as a comedy vehicle for Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz, hence the small budget. Also Smith and Lawrence weren't box office heavyweights yet. The film was a huge hit based on its budget.

The second film came after studios had gotten used to trusting Bay with huge budgets for films like Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, and he tried to bend the franchise into his typical action blockbuster mold. Which I thought was unfortunate, as the comedy took a back seat to big set pieces. Unluckily for the film's box office, Pirates of the Caribbean opened around the same time.

As you said, the modest gross of the second film seems to have put the franchise on ice for a very long time, until I suppose Sony got desperate for a reasonably safe play and greenlit the third film. I'm surprised it outgrossed the second, since neither star had had a big hit in quite a few years. Also it was the weakest of the films to that point.

 

[TravisR]

I'm kind of amazed that the Bad Boys franchise continued after the second film. For some reason, they massively increased the budget from the first to the second (5x or more), despite rather tepid grosses for the first film. I guess partly because Will Smith blew up after the first film with Independence Day and Men in Black. The second film was not profitable by the general box office evaluation yardstick.

I'd bet that Bad Boys II made a fortune on DVD because that was around, if not, the peak of the format.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I'd bet that Bad Boys II made a fortune on DVD because that was around, if not, the peak of the format.

Was working at Blockbuster at the time and it did very very well for a long time in our district.

 

[TravisR]

Was working at Blockbuster at the time and it did very very well for a long time in our district.

How many people here own the DVD? I have it and I think the movie is despicable (which is why it's so good )

 

[Desslar]

How many people here own the DVD? I have it and I think the movie is despicable (which is why it's so good )

I have it! It's a must for the Dan Marino deleted scene.

I don't think the movie is despicable, but there are a few moments where it goes a little further than it needs to. The action is very well shot. I just wish they brought along a writer from the first film, because the comedy is much weaker in the sequel and seems mostly adlibbed.

I enjoy the first two films especially because I used to frequently visit my grandparents in Miami as a kid, and the films take me back to an extent. In fact I watched my DVD of II for the first time in Florida.

 

[Tino]

A bit of relevant trivia to this thread I just discovered.

During the time of Shakespeare, in his plays a boy would stand with a box to take coins.

Once the box got heavy, he would switch it with an empty box in a little room.

This was called the Box Office.