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]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Wicked	Universal	$114,000,000		3,888		$29,321	$114,000,000	1
2	N	Gladiator II	Paramount Pi…	$55,500,000		3,573		$15,533	$55,500,000	1
3	(1)	Red One	Amazon MGM S…	$13,284,603	-59%	4,032	n/c	$3,295	$52,909,550	2
4	N	Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin	Angel Studios	$5,120,013		1,900		$2,695	$5,120,013	1
5	(2)	Venom: The Last Dance	Sony Pictures	$4,000,000	-45%	2,558	-863	$1,564	$133,825,000	5
6	(3)	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever	Lionsgate	$3,500,000	-33%	2,279	-741	$1,536	$25,515,822	3
7	(4)	Heretic	A24	$2,233,199	-55%	1,622	-1,608	$1,377	$24,766,852	3
8	(5)	The Wild Robot	Universal	$2,000,000	-53%	2,110	-784	$948	$140,727,000	9
9	(6)	Smile 2	Paramount Pi…	$1,110,000	-62%	952	-1,510	$1,166	$67,759,000	6
10	(9)	A Real Pain	Searchlight …	$1,109,000	-50%	1,185	n/c	$936	$4,959,588	4
11	(7)	Conclave	Focus Features	$1,100,000	-61%	1,013	-1,364	$1,086	$28,964,000	5
12	(8)	Hello, Love, Again	Abramorama F…	$1,000,000	-58%	244	-4	$4,098	$4,800,000	2
13	(10)	Anora	Neon	$675,000	-62%	500	-1,000	$1,350	$12,022,018	6
-	(11)	We Live in Time	A24	$157,248	-86%	263	-897	$598	$24,496,583	7
-	(12)	Here	Sony Pictures	$85,000	-90%	350	-1,424	$243	$12,153,000	4
-	N	Flow	Janus Films	$50,764		2		$25,382	$50,764	1
-	N	Porcelain War	Picturehouse	$11,227		1		$11,227	$11,227	1
		17		$204,936,054

 

[Jake Lipson]

Although I am not a fan of Wicked, I am very much a fan of other musicals that are not Wicked. So I've got to say that it would be great if this debut could shift the industry perception that people don't like musicals. It seems like every time a musical comes out, there's all this editorializing about how the audience at large doesn't like musicals anymore and the genre is either dying or dead. No other genre has to fight for its own existence with every single release. Wicked putting an end to that "debate" would be a service not only to Wicked fans but also to the entire genre as a whole. Even though I'm not interested in this particular film, its opening demonstrates that the audience is still there and will respond to a musical if they really like it, the same way any other genre works. The press will probably see Wicked as an aberration, though. I guess we'l see what happens whenever the next live-action musical that's not Wicked Part 2 opens. (Of course, Moana 2 is opening in two days and it is a musical as well, but the press seems to put Disney animated musicals in a different category.)

 

[Malcolm R]

So I've got to say that it would be great if this debut could shift the industry perception that people don't like musicals.

I doubt it, as aside from Wicked and Wonka, most other high-profile non-animated/non-Disney musicals have largely failed over the past few years: West Side Story, In the Heights, The Color Purple, Dear Evan Hanson, Mean Girls, Joker: Folie a Deux, Cats. That's only about a 25% chance of success in the genre even if you make a great film. Even the Disney name doesn't always guarantee success, seen with Dumbo, Encanto, and Wish, which all did kind of OK, but still lost money.

The occasional success story is not likely to change the overall perception. That would take a string of sustained successes.

 

[Wayne_j]

How did Red One end up getting more screens this weekend than both Wicked and Gladiator II?

 

[Wayne_j]

I doubt it, as aside from Wicked and Wonka, most other high-profile non-animated/non-Disney musicals have largely failed over the past few years: West Side Story, In the Heights, The Color Purple, Dear Evan Hanson, Mean Girls, Joker: Folie a Deux, Cats. That's only about a 25% chance of success in the genre even if you make a great film. Even the Disney name doesn't always guarantee success, seen with Dumbo, Encanto, and Wish, which all did kind of OK, but still lost money.

The occasional success story is not likely to change the overall perception. That would take a string of sustained successes.

Moana II is also coming out in a couple of days, if that hits big and Wicked doesn't plummet in the box office that could be good news for musicals.

 

[Malcolm R]

How did Red One end up getting more screens this weekend than both Wicked and Gladiator II?

It came out first, was released ultra-wide, and locked up screens for two week minimum. Only so many screens to go around when there are multiple tentpole movies to be shown at the same time (we've had two theaters close, loss of 14 screens, in my area in the past year). It will be interesting to see what happens with the premium screens when Moana 2 joins the mix on Wednesday. Not sure who will have the upper hand contractually.

Moana II is also coming out in a couple of days, if that hits big and Wicked doesn't plummet in the box office that could be good news for musicals.

Possibly, but that's another Disney musical which is usually an outlier when compared to other studios' musicals.

 

[Jake Lipson]

It will be interesting to see what happens with the premium screens when Moana 2 joins the mix on Wednesday. Not sure who will have the upper hand contractually.

YMMV but at my local theater, Moana takes over the premium screen beginning Tuesday at 2pm. (With Wednesday being the "official" opening day, the so-called "previews" are Tuesday.) It looks like Wicked will have it for a single late night show after that, but Moana is getting all of the earlier showtimes. Gladiator, which was splitting the premium screen with Wicked this weekend, gets bounced off of it altogether.

 

[Malcolm R]

Looks about the same here. We only have one PLF in the area. Split with Gladiator 2 and Wicked this weekend, but starting Wednesday it's Moana 2 and Wicked.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Last year on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I went to see Wish in the local premium auditorium and I was the only person there. They seem to have learned from that and are keeping Wicked for the last night show slot while Moana has everything else. Of course, a late night Wicked show will actually get out early in the morning on the next day because of its length.

 

[SDave]

My guess is that Wicked will regain some premium screen slots after the holiday weekend. Nothing of note opens on the 6th and maybe even the 13th (Kraven?).

 

[Malcolm R]

Kraven and LOTR: Rohirrim are expected to get releases in IMAX and PLF's starting on 12/13, so the current batch has a couple of weeks to play until then.

 

[Tino]

My guess is that Wicked will regain some premium screen slots after the holiday weekend. Nothing of note opens on the 6th and maybe even the 13th (Kraven?).

Interstellar opens on the 6th and practically all the shows are sold out.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Interstellar opens on the 6th

You're right, but there is a caveat. This was originally announced as a wide re-release, but they've since scaled it back to being IMAX theaters only. This leaves out other premium auditoriums, like the Cinemark XD that I use and Regal's "RPX" format, because they're not part of IMAX. I suspect that Moana 2 (maybe split with Wicked at night) will probably keep those screens for the weekend of the 6th while Interstellar is likely to be on the whole IMAX-branded footprint.

Kraven and LOTR: Rohirrim are expected to get releases in IMAX and PLF's starting on 12/13

I'm curious how they plan to divide up the limited number of premium screens between these two. There will be a similar situation on December 20 with Sonic and (ugh) Mufasa on the same day.

 

[TravisR]

Kraven and LOTR: Rohirrim are expected to get releases in IMAX and PLF's starting on 12/13, so the current batch has a couple of weeks to play until then.

I think the chains are going to really wish they kept Wicked on those screens.

 

[Malcolm R]

It would be up to the theaters for the non-IMAX PLF screens. I think they have more control over those as they are not a proprietary franchised format like IMAX. But IMAX shows new engagements available every week on the upcoming schedule (below, from the-numbers.com). I'm not sure if IMAX screens are contracted between the studios and IMAX, or if the theaters have some level of control over what's shown? I'm guessing they can probably choose the films they want in their building as long as it's an IMAX-sanctioned offering.

November 27

Moana 2 (IMAX)

Walt Disney

December 4

Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- (IMAX)

Crunchyroll

December 6

Interstellar (IMAX, re-release)

Paramount Pictures

Laufey’s A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl (IMAX)	Trafalgar Releasing
Pushpa: The Rule — Part 2 (IMAX)	Mythri Movie Makers

December 11

The Green Knight (IMAX, re-release)

A24

December 13

Kraven the Hunter (IMAX) Sony Pictures

December 20

Mufasa: The Lion King (IMAX)

Walt Disney

 

[Tino]

It would be up to the theaters for the non-IMAX PLF screens. I think they have more control over those as they are not a proprietary franchised format like IMAX. But IMAX shows new engagements available every week on the upcoming schedule (below, from the-numbers.com). I'm not sure if IMAX screens are contracted between the studios and IMAX, or if the theaters have some level of control over what's shown? I'm guessing they can probably choose the films they want in their building as long as it's an IMAX-sanctioned offering.

November 27

Moana 2 (IMAX)

Walt Disney

December 4

Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- (IMAX)

Crunchyroll

December 6

Interstellar (IMAX, re-release)

Paramount Pictures

Laufey’s A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl (IMAX)	Trafalgar Releasing
Pushpa: The Rule — Part 2 (IMAX)	Mythri Movie Makers

December 11

The Green Knight (IMAX, re-release)

A24

December 13

Kraven the Hunter (IMAX) Sony Pictures

December 20

Mufasa: The Lion King (IMAX)

Walt Disney

Interstellar is the only film that interests me from that list. I’m seeing it at least twice in IMAX.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I'm not sure if IMAX screens are contracted between the studios and IMAX, or if the theaters have some level of control over what's shown?

I don't have any inside information on contracts or anything, so I could be way off here. But I do think there's reason to suspect that IMAX corporate makes those calls. Joker 2 was given a guaranteed three-week window in IMAX because part of it was shot with IMAX cameras. I'm sure a lot of theater owners would have liked to drop it off the IMAX screens sooner than that due to its poor performance, but I don't think they were allowed to do that.

Ten years ago, Mockingjay Part 1 was the only Hunger Games movie that didn't get an IMAX release even though the others had done well for them. That was because IMAX was committed to showing Interstellar for a long time during the run of Mockingjay because of a deal with Paramount and Nolan. Interstellar got a long window guaranteed because Nolan used IMAX cameras to shoot it. Mockingjay came out something like two weeks after Interstellar so the IMAX screens were unavailable to it.

There was also an incident in 2009 when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out. IMAX was unable to schedule Half-Blood Prince at all for the first two weeks of its theatrical run because they had already promised those screens to a Transformers movie. WB ran into this problem because Half-Blood Prince had originally been scheduled for November 2008, when they could have had the IMAX screens to themselves. But they decided to push it to July 2009 because the 2007-8 writers strike left them without a summer 2009 tentpole release. So Half-Blood Prince opened only in regular theaters and then added IMAX two weeks into its run after the commitment to Transformers had ended.

 

[Joe Wong]

Re: Wicked

My wife and I have just returned from a trip to London (UK) and Paris. Wicked seemed to be everywhere in London. So the marketing machine is going all out.

Including this castle inside a train station (St Pancras International).

 

[Malcolm R]

[Moved to Wicked thread.]

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Moana 2	Walt Disney	$135,500,000		4,200		$32,262	$221,000,000	1
2	(1)	Wicked	Universal	$80,000,000	-29%	3,888	n/c	$20,576	$262,426,000	2
3	(2)	Gladiator II	Paramount Pi…	$30,700,000	-44%	3,580	+7	$8,575	$111,208,000	2
4	(3)	Red One	Amazon MGM S…	$12,896,000	-2%	3,432	-600	$3,758	$76,056,000	3
5	(6)	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever	Lionsgate	$3,275,000	-4%	1,779	-500	$1,841	$32,000,049	4
6	(4)	Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin	Angel Studios	$2,403,859	-52%	1,800	-100	$1,335	$9,747,689	2
7	(5)	Venom: The Last Dance	Sony Pictures	$2,200,000	-43%	1,716	-842	$1,282	$137,863,000	6
8	(7)	Heretic	A24	$956,797	-57%	660	-962	$1,450	$26,820,699	4
9	(8)	The Wild Robot	Universal	$670,000	-68%	883	-1,227	$759	$142,485,000	10
10	(11)	A Real Pain	Searchlight …	$665,000	-39%	505	-680	$1,317	$6,121,193	5
11	(9)	Conclave	Focus Features	$580,000	-49%	423	-590	$1,371	$30,101,000	6
12	(10)	Smile 2	Paramount Pi…	$438,000	-61%	390	-562	$1,123	$68,746,000	7
13	(-)	Anora	Neon	$360,000	-47%	230	-270	$1,565	$12,722,470	7
-	N	Queer	A24	$188,808		7		$26,973	$295,518	1
-	(-)	All We Imagine as Light	Sideshow Rel…	$65,600	+4%	26	+7	$2,523	$237,963	3
-	(-)	We Live in Time	A24	$39,730	-75%	72	-191	$552	$24,625,360	8
-	N	The Seed of the Sacred Fig	Neon	$33,004		3		$11,001	$50,050	1
-	(-)	Flow	Janus Films	$28,900	-43%	2	n/c	$14,450	$98,887	2
-	(-)	Here	Sony Pictures	$24,000	-72%	83	-267	$289	$12,218,000	5
-	N	Heavier Trip	Music Box Films	$10,000		15		$667	$10,000	1
		20		$271,034,698