Weekend Box Office Archives

In fifth place was The Menu with $1.7 million. The weekend box office for December 18th: Avatar: The Way of Water- $134 million Black Panther: Wakanda Forever- $5.4 million Violent Night- $5 million Strange World- $22 million The Menu- $1.7 million Next week, over the Christmas holiday, we will see a few wide openings, as Puss In Boots: The Last Wish opens[...]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever won the weekend box office for the fifth week in a row, adding $11.1 million, passing the $400 million threshold in the process It becomes only the third film domestically to reach that number this year, after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Top Gun: Maverick It should pass[...]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever won yet again at the weekend box office as it continues its great run of dominance at the box office It was slower than one would think the week after the Thanksgiving holiday, with the weather playing a part in the midwest The MCU film added $17.5 million this week, bringing[...]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ruled the Thanksgiving holiday box office, but Strange World ended up bombing pretty hard.

Fourth place saw Black Adam slide down to $4.4 million,  and rounding out the top five was Ticket To Paradise with $3.2 million. The weekend box office top five for November 17th: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever- $67.3 million The Menu- $9 million Chosen: Season 3- $8.2 million Black Adam- $4.4 million Ticket To Paradise- $3.2 million Next week sees a few wide[...]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opened huge at the weekend box office, to the surprise of nobody While it was not able to cross the $200 million opening threshold domestically, the film still scored $180 million, the second-biggest opening of the year Worldwide, it is off to a $330 million start That is also good enough[...]

Black Adam did indeed win the weekend box office, opening to $67 million That represents the biggest opening of Dwayne Johnson's career, with him as a leading man and a solid start that came right smack dab in the middle of expectations The film also added $140 million worldwide While the reviews have been tepid,[...]

Worth a special mention is slasher Terrifier 2, which is killing it in limited release, grossing $2,2 million so far. The weekend box office for October 14th: Halloween Ends- $41 million Smile- $12.4 million Lyle, Lyle Crocodile- $7.4 million The Woman King- $3.7 million Amsterdam- $2.9 million Next week, the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe changes as Dwayne Johnson marches[...]

Looks like that one will not cross $50 million at this point. The weekend box office top five for October 7th: Smile- $17.6 million Lyle, Lyle Crocodile- $11.5 million Amsterdam- $6.5 million The Woman King- $5.3 million Don't Worry Darling- $3.4 million Next week, Halloween Ends Billed as the final showdown between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, the wrap-up to David Gordon[...]

Rounding out the top five was Avatar, which in its second week of re-release scored 4.6 million. The weekend box office top five for September 30th: Smile- $22 million Don't Worry Darling- $7.3 million The Woman King- $7 million Bros- $4.8 million Avatar- $4.6 million Next week sees two wide openings, as David O Russell's star-studded Amsterdam opens, as well as the[...]

Don't Worry Darling, after all the scandal and mixed reviews, opened slightly above expectations at $19.2 million, good enough for first place and a weekend box office win The Olivia Wilde drama has had a roller coaster couple of months heading into its opening, but in the end, audiences came out to support the film[...]

The Woman King has surprised everyone and won the weekend box office with $19 million, shocking everyone and awakening the tepid fall box office The Viola Davis action film scored big with women and men both and sports an A+ CinemaScore, making it a certainty that it will have legs due to strong word of[...]

Bullet Train pulled into the station at number one at the weekend box office, winning what is really the last big weekend of the summer box office season The Brad Pitt action film scored $30.1 million, which was the highest number in pre-release tracking and beating mostly mild reviews and a B+ CinemaScore Now the[...]

Thor: Love & Thunder dominated the weekend box office as expected, taking in $143 million That is the best opening for a Thor film, the third-highest opening of the year behind Doctor Strange and Jurassic World Dominion, and the twelfth best opening for an MCU film Worldwide after one weekend, it sits at $303 million[...]

Minions: Rise of Gru, as expected, dominated the July 4th weekend box office In doing so, it set a new record for a July 4th opening, as it scored $125.1 million After some felt that Lightyear's cold debut might be a sign that families were not ready to come back to theaters, this shows that[...]

Fourth place went to Doctor Strange, still hanging around with $4.2 million the weekend before it hits Disney+, and fifth went to Bob's Burgers with $1.3 million, though when the final numbers are counted Tuesday, it could flip with Everything Everywhere All At Once, which scored another $1.2 million. The Weekend Box Office for June 17th: Jurassic[...]

Fourth went to Bob's Burgers with $2.33 million, and fifth was The Bad Guys with $2.25 million, as it inches closer to that $100 million mark. The Weekend Box Office Top Five For June 10th: Jurassic World: Dominion- $143.3 million Top Gun: Maverick- $50 million Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness- $4.9 million Bob's Burgers- $2.33 million The Bad Guys-[...]

Top Gun: Maverick continued to astonish in its second weekend, scoring $86 million to finish first at the weekend box office That is an unheard of -33% drop from its opening, the smallest ever for a film that opened over $100 million That brings its domestic total to a fantastic $291 million, the highest box[...]

Top Gun: Maverick soared past all expectations at the weekend box office, scoring an estimated $151 million dollars for the four-day weekend, which puts it at the top That is a record for Memorial Day weekend, beating out Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End It is by far the biggest opening ever for Tom[...]

In other A24 news, Everything Everywhere All At Once came in sixth with $3.1 million, sending its gross to $52 million and making it the highest-grossing A24 film of all time. The Weekend Box Office Top 5 For May 19th: Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness- $31.6 million Downton Abbey: A New Era- $16 million The Bad Guys-[...]

Doctor Strange and The Multiverse Of Madness easily won the weekend box office, taking in $185 million, a stunning total Including international grosses, it has already banked $450 million worldwide That is a crazy amount of money for the film, no doubt bolstered by many factors Cumberbatch co-starring in two Avengers films and the latest[...]

The Bad Guys won the weekend box office for the second week in a row, even though business was down 28% from the same week last year The animated film took in $16.1 million, bringing its total to $44.4 million in two weeks To take nothing away from how that film is performing, it is[...]

That one is pretty much DOA, as it has only scored $8 million since opening Wednesday. The Weekend Box Office Top 5 For April 15th: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore- $43 million Sonic 2- $30 million The Lost City- $6.5 million Everything Everywhere All At Once- $6.1 million Father Stu- $5.68 million Next week, the calm before the next MCU storm[...]

Everyone should go see it. The Weekend Box Office Top 5 For April 8th: Sonic 2- $71 million Morbius- $10.2 million The Lost City- $9.1 million Ambulance- $8.7 million The Batman- $6.5 million Next weekend will be interesting, as Sonic 2 enters its second week against the latest film set in the Harry Potter universe, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, and[...]

Morbius did indeed win the weekend box office, grossing $39.1 million, falling short of the expected $40-50 million range most were forecasting after Thursday's $5.7 million in previews It looks like word of mouth is more deadly than a stake through the heart, as its grosses dropped through the weekend pretty quickly Morbius averaged a[...]

Rounding out the top five was Jujutsu Kaisen O with $4.58 million. The Weekend Box Office Top Five For March 25th: The Lost City- $30.5 million The Batman- $20.5 million RRR- $9.5 million Uncharted- $5 million Jujustsu Kaisen O: $4.58 million Next week, Morbius finally opens, though the early reviews have it as a trainwreck Look for it to still do well[...]

Rounding out the top five was Dog with $4 million. The Weekend Box Office Top Five For March 20th: The Batman- $36.8 million Jujutsu Kaisen O- $17.7 million Uncharted- $8 million X- $4.4 million Dog- $4 million Next week, we may see a new number one, as the action-adventure romantic comedy The Lost City opens Sandra Bullock always puts butts in seats,[...]

One wonders what Turning Red would have made had it opened in theaters this weekend instead of just on Disney+. The Weekend Box Office Top Five For March 11th: The Batman- $66 million Uncharted- $9.25 million BTS Permission to Dance on Stage- Seoul Live Viewing: $6.3 million Dog- $5.3 million Spider-Man: No Way Home- $4 million Next week, still not much is[...]

The Batman predictably took over the Weekend Box Office, scoring the second-best opening during the pandemic era of theater-going with $128.5 million Overseas it took in another $120 million for a huge $248 million debut That number includes advance Imax screenings and such, but still an impressive number for WB This is also the best[...]

Foo Fighters horror-comedy Studio 666 underwhelmed with $1.5 million, though that one will have long legs on digital services forever, really. The Weekend Box Office Top Five For February 25th: Uncharted- $23.5 million Dog- $10.1 million Spider-Man: No Way Home- $5.75 million Death On The Nile- $4.5 million Jackass Forever- $4.5 million Next week, The Batman opens and will open huge $100[...]