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 ›​

 

[darkrock17]

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Moana 2

Walt Disney

$135,500,000

 

[Tino]

Thanksgiving 5-Day U.S. Box Office Hitting Amazing All-Time $422M High; AMC Boss Adam Aron Declares “A National Phenomenon”​

Thanksgiving 5-Day U.S. Box Office Hitting Amazing All-Time $422M High; AMC Boss Adam Aron Declares “A National Phenomenon”

Thanks to 'Moana 2', 'Wicked' and 'Gladiator II', the Thanksgiving box office is seeing an all-time domestic record of $422M.

deadline.com

 

[Malcolm R]

And theaters give thanks for the arrival of more tentpole sequels and adaptations of well-loved IP so they can clear out those pesky original films that not many will buy a ticket to see and for which there are no popcorn bucket tie-ins.

 

[Wayne_j]

Great hold for Gladiator 2 and especially Wicked.

 

[Malcolm R]

Red One also had a nice hold considering it lost 600 screens this week.

 

[Malcolm R]

Final numbers for the Top 3 were all slightly higher than estimates.

 

[benbess]

Here, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, has so far grossed only $13 million worldwide compared an estimated budget before advertising and overhead of about $50 million. Needless to say Here has a lot of red rink. I like most of RZ's movies a lot, but this one was not my cup of tea, and at this point he's had a fairly long list of box office disappointments. I hope RZ can achieve commercial and critical success with his next movie.

One of my favorites among RZ's recent movies is Allied, a grim and yet spectacular and action-packed World War II drama that I have on 4K, and which I've watched every year for the past few years.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I hope RZ can achieve commercial and critical success with his next movie.

Zemeckis will always have my respect for Back to the Future in particular, and he is obviously extremely skilled. His contributions the art form are significant and can't be discounted, but he is also extremely inconsistent. I think "critical" is especially important when you're talking about movies aimed at adults, which is most of Zemeckis' dramas. Generally speaking, older audiences seem likely to pay attention to reviews, and the reviews for Here just weren't good. Something like Moana 2 (which had much more mixed reviews than its predecessor) is review-proof because kids love it and just want to spend more time with the character. Here is going for a very different section of the audience which is more discerning.

One of my favorites among RZ's recent movies is Allied

I liked that movie, but I think it would have benefited from being structured slightly differently.

On another box office related note, I guessed earlier:

Interstellar is likely to be on the whole IMAX-branded footprint.

Wrong. The fake IMAX locally (which I boycott anyway because it's in AMC) has booked Wicked this weekend. Paramount had originally announced Interstellar as a wide re-release when it had been scheduled for September. Then, someone decided to scale it back to IMAX only, and now it's not even all IMAX locations. I think they are leaving some money on the table by not putting this film wider. There are lots of Nolan fans who don't live near one of the limited release theaters. A wide re-release would not have behaved like a new movie, but I think it would have made something, and certainly more than the limited release will.

Wicked will obviously continue to do very well for the premium locations where it is booked, and the theaters showing it won't have a problem filling seats. But especially on a pretty quiet weekend as far as new releases go, I would have been happy to go see Interstellar in a theater again if it had come out as the wide re-release originally announced. I guess I'll watch my Blu-ray instead. But the studio won't get any additional money from that because I've owned it for nine years.

 

[TravisR]

Here, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, has so far grossed only $13 million worldwide compared an estimated budget before advertising and overhead of about $50 million. Needless to say Here has a lot of red rink.

I liked Here more than you but I did almost laugh out loud when the movie started at the dawn of time. It's not like it was a massive sequence but it still seemed like a completely unnecessary expenditure but I guess they figured that a relatively low budget and Tom Hanks guaranteed a profit.

As for Zemeckis, Allied is pretty good but I really loved The Walk which is probably my favorite of his movies since the BTTFs.

 

[Tino]

PARAMOUNT
Doing double the amount of business than Y2K is Paramount’s Imax re-release of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar with $4.1M at 165 locations with a massive $24,8K theater average, arguably the best domestic re-release (non-awards related) start for the filmmaker. We often hear news about Nolan re-releases in Imax (i.e. Tenet), but then there aren’t any grosses reported. It pays to double down on Nolan re-releases, because clearly there’s some sort of business here.

 

[Wayne_j]

Interstellar is doing great especially for my local IMAX only showing it twice a day (Moana 2) gets the matinees. I was going to see Interstellar tomorrow but the seating chart looks like the crowd will be too big for me. I guess I will go Tuesday.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Doing double the amount of business than Y2K is Paramount’s Imax re-release of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar with $4.1M at 165 locations with a massive $24,8K theater average

Why didn't this go wider again?

I know that IMAX and 70mm are part of the appeal for cinephiles. But if the movie can make this much with so few options for where to see it, I have to think they're leaving money on the table by limiting the size of the release. Interstellar isn't the same kind of movie as Moana 2 or Wicked, so I think a more substantial re-release could have found space in the marketplace right now. Are they afraid of taking away business from Gladiator II?

Oh well.

 

[Joe Wong]

Given the interest and demand for this re-release, I’d have to say Interstellar is one of the most sought-after IMAX re-releases. I’d guess any Nolan 15/70mm film would be popular, but especially Interstellar. The imagery is spectacular.

 

[Wayne_j]

I love it when re releases make the charts. The-numbers is showing Interstellar as week 527.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(1)	Moana 2	Walt Disney	$52,000,000	-63%	4,200	n/c	$12,381	$300,039,013	2
2	(2)	Wicked	Universal	$34,850,000	-57%	3,885	-3	$8,970	$320,509,000	3
3	(3)	Gladiator II	Paramount Pi…	$12,450,000	-60%	3,440	-140	$3,619	$132,743,000	3
4	(4)	Red One	Amazon MGM S…	$7,003,917	-45%	3,150	-282	$2,223	$85,785,481	4
-	(-)	Interstellar	Paramount Pi…	$4,425,000		165		$26,818	$192,443,000	527
-	N	Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-	Sony Pictures	$2,400,000		846		$2,837	$2,400,000	1
-	N	Y2K	A24	$2,113,923		2,108		$1,003	$2,113,923	1
-	N	For King + Country: A Drummer Boy Christmas	Fathom Events	$2,055,486		1,540		$1,335	$2,617,135	1
-	(5)	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever	Lionsgate	$1,525,000	-53%	1,633	-146	$934	$34,490,377	5
-	N	Werewolves	Briarcliff E…	$1,100,000		1,351		$814	$1,100,000	1
-	N	The Order	Vertical Ent…	$878,000		603		$1,456	$878,000	1
-	N	Laufey’s A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl	Trafalgar Re…	$845,370		133		$6,356	$845,370	1
-	(7)	Venom: The Last Dance	Sony Pictures	$675,000	-70%	854	-862	$790	$139,113,000	7
-	N	RM: Right People, Wrong Place	Variance Films	$598,000		594		$1,007	$598,000	1
-	(6)	Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin	Angel Studios	$556,570	-76%	945	-855	$589	$11,250,400	3
-	(-)	Flow	Janus Films	$528,000	+1,892%	375	+373	$1,408	$633,337	3
-	(-)	Queer	A24	$405,910	+102%	47	+40	$8,636	$866,523	2
-	N	The Return	Bleecker Street	$354,585		629		$564	$354,585	1
-	(10)	A Real Pain	Searchlight …	$291,000	-56%	220	-285	$1,323	$6,652,861	6
-	(8)	Heretic	A24	$242,816	-75%	278	-382	$873	$27,504,450	5
-	(11)	Conclave	Focus Features	$210,000	-66%	231	-192	$909	$30,602,000	7
-	N	Trailer Park Boys Presents: Standing on the Sho…	Blue Fox Ent…	$210,000		285		$737	$210,000	1
-	(13)	Anora	Neon	$186,000	-52%	123	-107	$1,512	$13,140,440	8
-	(9)	The Wild Robot	Universal	$117,000	-83%	291	-592	$402	$142,797,000	11
-	N	Get Away	IFC Films	$101,999		474		$215	$101,999	1
-	(12)	Smile 2	Paramount Pi…	$73,000	-83%	121	-269	$603	$68,940,000	8
-	(-)	All We Imagine as Light	Sideshow Rel…	$39,300	-38%	24	-2	$1,638	$324,414	4
-	N	Oh, Canada	Kino Lorber	$33,257		3		$11,086	$33,257	1
-	(-)	We Live in Time	A24	$28,584	-28%	10	-62	$2,858	$24,690,031	9
-	(-)	The Seed of the Sacred Fig	Neon	$25,662	-27%	5	+2	$5,132	$96,512	2
-	N	The End	Neon	$22,747		3		$7,582	$22,747	1
-	N	The Girl With the Needle	MUBI	$11,488		2		$5,744	$11,488	1
		32		$126,357,614

 

[Tino]

Interstellar had more than twice the per screen average of the #1 film. Impressive. As @Jake Lipson mentioned, it should have gotten a wide release.

 

[Malcolm R]

Thursday previews $2 million for Kraven the Hunter, $625K for LOTR: Rohirrim.

 

[Tino]

Looks like both Wicked and Moana 2 will finish with about $400 million each domestically.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Given that both Kraven and The War of the Rohirrim seem anemic this weekend, I really don't know why Sonic and Mufasa both had to duke it out next weekend. I know that more schools are out next week into the holiday, but still. It seems like one or the other could have gotten ahead by opening this weekend. Either Mufasa or Sonic would have been able to outdo either of this weekend's new releases easily and would have had longer in premium auditoriums if they didn't open the same day competing with each other.

 

[TravisR]

Given that both Kraven and The War of the Rohirrim seem anemic this weekend, I really don't know why Sonic and Mufasa both had to duke it out next weekend. I know that more schools are out next week into the holiday, but still. It seems like one or the other could have gotten ahead by opening this weekend. Either Mufasa or Sonic would have been able to outdo either of this weekend's new releases easily and would have had longer in premium auditoriums if they didn't open the same day competing with each other.

Sure but by opening both at the same time, they can be sure that they'll both make less money. Genius.