Box Office – April 5-7, 2024: GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE, MONKEY MAN, GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE, & More

Box Office April 5-7, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for April 5, 2024 through April 7, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was the Number One film at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $31.2 Million for $134.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $361.1 Million.

Monkey Man premiered in Second Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $10.1 Million.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $9 Million.

The First Omen premiered in Fourth Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $8.3 Million.

Kung Fu Panda 4 was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $7.8 Million for $166 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $410.4 Million.

These films: Dune: Part Two, Someone Like You (which premiered this weekend), Arthur the King, Immaculate, and Wicked Little Letter 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:

Monkey Man is a 2024 action thriller film directed and co-produced by Dev Patel in his directorial debut, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Angunawela and John Collee. The film stars Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash Tripathy, Vipin Sharma, Sikandar Kher, Adithi Kalkunte, Sobhita Dhulipala, Ashwini Kalsekar, Makarand Deshpande, Jatin Malik, and Zakir Hussain.

The First Omen is a 2024 American supernatural horror film directed by Arkasha Stevenson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tim Smith and Keith Thomas from a story by Ben Jacoby. It is a prequel to The Omen (1976), being the sixth film in The Omen franchise. The film stars Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sônia Braga, Ralph Ineson, and Bill Nighy. The plot follows an American woman sent to work at a church in Rome who uncovers a sinister conspiracy to bring about the birth of the Antichrist.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Civil War, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, LaRoy Texas, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire will be the Number One film at the box office for the third weekend in a row.

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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