Weekend Box Office Archives

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes won a crowded weekend box office with $44 million domestically and added $54.5 million overseas for a worldwide opening of $98.5 million While a tad lower than Lionsgate was probably hoping, overall, that is not bad for a franchise returning after eight years off Part of[...]

The Marvels will go down in the record books as the number one film at the weekend box office, but it will be one Marvel Studios won't be bragging about anytime soon The opening will stand at $47 million, the lowest opening for an MCU film to date Many factors play into this low number,[...]

Weekend box office numbers were the fourth worst for 2023 this weekend, with lots of the blame coming from the fact that because of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, Dune: Part Two did not open as it was supposed to That film was moved by Warner's to March 2024 when it became clear that the stars[...]

Five Nights At Freddy's destroyed the weekend box office, finishing on top and setting all kinds of records in the process It grossed $78 million; this is despite the film also debuting on Friday on streaming service Peacock, though Universal is okay with that All the headlines from this one are good A list: Top opening[...]

Wild. The weekend box office top five for October 20th: Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Film- $32 million Killers of the Flower Moon- $23 million The Exorcist: Believer- $5.6 million Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie- $4.4 million A Nightmare Before Christmas- $4.1 million Next week, one of the most anticipated films of the year, though some of you reading this will have[...]

Taylor Swift took over the weekend box office this week with her Eras Tour Film The weekend at this point is coming in between $95-97 million, as AMC waits until every cent is counted They distributed the film with Swift, and if they call it above $96 million on Monday, it will become the highest[...]

The Exorcist: Believer did indeed win the weekend box office, but it was far from impressive The legacy sequel, directed by David Gordon Green, took in a lower-than-expected $27.2 million, far below what Universal hoped for when they bought the rights to the franchise for $400 million in 2021 Blumhouse kept the budget at $30[...]

Weekend box office has been slow these last two weeks, but that all changed this weekend, as the top three films were all new openers On top of the heap is Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, the first real family film to open since TMNT: Mutant Mayhem at the beginning of August The film took[...]

The Nun II became the first of what should be many horror films this fall to win the weekend box office The sequel pulled in $32.6 million, down $20 million from the opening of the first film back in 2018 That falls right in line with other Conjuring Universe films, though with a C+ CinemaScore,[...]

Down a bit lower saw comedy Bottoms expand into 700 theaters and gross $3.6 million, up +552% from its opening. The weekend box office top five for Labor Day: The Equalizer 3- $42 million Barbie- $13.1 million Blue Beetle- $9.2 million Gran Turismo- $8.5 million Oppenheimer- $7.5 million Next weekend sees the first big horror film of the fall open, as The[...]

After the dust cleared, Gran Turismo won the weekend box office, denying Barbie a return to the top spot Depending on who you ask, though *cough Warner Bros*, they goosed the numbers by including preview screening numbers in its weekend total of $17.3 million Every studio does that now so that Sony can claim their[...]

Blue Beetle did indeed unseat Barbie from the top position at the weekend box office, though now that the actual numbers are out, it does not feel impressive The latest offering from DC scored $25.4 million, below projections Who knows what specific factors contributed to that, but what it really seems to boil down to[...]

Barbie has now completed a fourth straight victory at the weekend box office Greta Gerwig's film added another $33.7 million this weekend, bringing its domestic total up to $526 million That puts it only about $50 million or so behind The Super Mario Bros Movie as the top domestic earner for 2023, and it will[...]

However, two, three, and four could change when the actuals come out tomorrow. The weekend box office top five for August 4th: Barbie- $53 million Meg 2: The Trench- $30 million Oppenheimer- $28.7 million Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem- $28 million Haunted Mansion- $8.9 million Next week, another arrival will try to make a dent, as we have a bunch of[...]

Just outside the top five at number six was A24's excellent horror film Talk To Me, with an even $10 million, a great start for that film. The weekend box office top five for July 28: Barbie- $93 million Oppenheimer- $46 million Haunted Mansion- $24 million Sound of Freedom- $12.4 million Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1- $10.7 million Next week, August[...]

Overall, this was the biggest weekend in theaters since Avengers: Endgame opened in 2019. The weekend box office top five for July 21st: Barbie- $162 million Oppenheimer- $82 million Sound of Freedom- $19 million Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One- $19 million Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny- $6.6 million Next week, the top two will stay the same, but Disney[...]

That film is long gone from the top ten. The weekend box office top five for July 14th: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: $56.2 million Sound of Freedom- $27 million Insidious: The Red Door- $13 million Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny- $12 million Elemental- $8.7 million Next weekend, Barbinheimer is upon us, finally Barbie and Oppenheimer take over[...]

Insidious: The Red Door followed through on its promise to be the hoor event of the summer by taking the top spot at the weekend box office The fifth film in the franchise grossed $32.4 million, the second-highest debut in the series, and easily won the top spot So far, it is the highest-grossing horror[...]

It added $7 million, and it should leg out to over $150 million domestically when all is said and done. The weekend box office top five for June 30th: Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny- $60 million Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse- $11.5 million Elemental- $11.3 million No Hard Feelings- $7.5 million Transformers: Rise of the Beasts- $7 million Next week, two[...]

Spider-Verse keeps impressing, as the sequel has reclaimed the top spot at the weekend box office A little later than usual, as Disney took their sweet time confirming the estimates for Elemental, but it is official: Spidey rules again The film took in $19.3 million, climbing back to the top spot in its fourth week[...]

The Little Mermaid ranked out of the top five with another $11.6 million. The weekend box office top five for June 16th: The Flash- $55.1 million Elemental- $29.5 million Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse- $27.8 million Transformers: Rise of the Beasts- $20 million The Little Mermaid- $11.6 million Next week, the great comedy experiment of summer 2023 starts Jennifer Lawrence's raunchy comedy No[...]

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts won the weekend box office, fending off the second weekend of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse But when you dig into the numbers…maybe Transformers should have an asterisk next to its name It scored $60.5 million for first place, but that includes fan screenings from Wednesday Some of those were also[...]

Rounding out the top five was Fast X with $9.2 million, as it continues its rapid slide. The weekend box office top five for June 2nd: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: $120.5 million The Little Mermaid: $40.6 million The Boogeyman: $12.3 million Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3: $10.2 million Fast X: $9.2 million Next week, Transformers fans get their first theatrical release[...]

The Little Mermaid unsurprisingly won the Memorial Day weekend box office with $117.5 million, ending up slightly below tracking and most box office predictions—still, a great chunk of change The real story is overseas, where the film opened in 57 other territories and managed just $68 million, including a paltry $2.5 million from China That[...]

Fourth place went to Book Club: The Next Chapter with $3 million, and rounding out the top five and still hanging on is Evil Dead Rise with $2.4 million. The weekend box office top five for the weekend of May 19th: Fast X- $67 million Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3- $32.7 million The Super Mario Bros Movie- $9.8[...]

3 squashed some "Marvel is dead!" talk at the weekend box office in its second week It only dropped -49%, much better than the previous few MCU releases, and scored $62 million That brings its two-week total to $215.2 million, though with Fast X opening next week and The Little Mermaid the week after, expect[...]

3, of course, won the weekend box office in its debut; there was never any doubt about that The question was if it could reach the heights of Vol 2, which opened with $146 million way back in 2017 It did not, coming in at $114 million, over $30 million less Most will point to[...]

The Super Mario Bros. Movie finished April on top of the Weekend Box Office yet again, crossing the $1 billion mark worldwide as well.

Movie continued to break records and etch its place in history at the weekend box office, as the Nintendo/Universal/Illumination collaboration added another $58.2 million to its total That is the best third weekend for an animated film ever, and the film has now crossed the $400 million mark at the domestic box office It now[...]

Movie once again crushed the weekend box office, seeing a small drop of -41% for $87 million, the highest second week an animated film has ever had That brings its two-week domestic total to a spectacular $347 million, with at least two more weeks to crush the box office until Guardians of the Galaxy Vol[...]