Box Office – April 12-14, 2024: CIVIL WAR, GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE, GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE, & More

Box Office April 12-14, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for April 12, 2024 through April 14, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Civil War premiered in First Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $25.7 Million.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was Second at the United States box office with $15.5 Million (a 50% drop from last weekend) for $158 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $436.6 Million.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $5.7 Million (a 36% drop from last weekend).

Kung Fu Panda 4 was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $5.5 Million (a 29% drop from last weekend) for $173.6 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $424.4 Million.

Dune: Part Two was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $4.3 Million (a 42% drop from last weekend) for $272.1 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $683.9 Million.

These films: Monkey Man, The First Omen, Shrek 2, The Long Game (which premiered this weekend), and Arthur the King rounded out the top ten respectively.

Movies That Opened This Weekend

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Civil War is a 2024 dystopian action drama film directed and written by Alex Garland. In the story, a team of journalists travel across the United States during a rapidly escalating Second American Civil War, which has engulfed the nation. The ensemble cast includes Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman.

The Long Game is a 2023 American historical drama film adaptation of Humberto G. Garcia’s 2010 novel Mustang Miracle. The film is directed by Julio Quintana and stars Jay Hernandez, Julian Works, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Brett Cullen, Oscar Nuñez, Paulina Chávez, Gregory Diaz IV, José Julián, Cheech Marin, and Dennis Quaid. The film was released theatrically in the United States by Mucho Mas Media on April 12, 2024.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Abigail, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Villains Inc., and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare will be the Number One film at the box office.

The History of Box Office (and Profit Measurement)

“A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket.

By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium.

Box office business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.

To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks.

Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a “house allowance” or “house nut”. It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor’s share of the box office gross is often referred to as the “distributor rentals”, especially for box office reporting of older films.”

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