Box Office – August 2-4, 2024: DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, TWISTERS, TRAP, & More

Box Office August 2-4, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for August 2, 2024 through August 4, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Deadpool & Wolverine was Number One at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $97 Million (a 54% drop from last weekend) for $395.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $824 Million, on a budget of $200 Million.

Twisters was Second at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $22.6 Million (a 35% drop from last weekend) for $195.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $274.3 Million, on a budget of $155 Million.

Trap premiered in Third Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $15.6 Million, on a budget of $30 Million.

Despicable Me 4 was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $11.2 Million (a 23% drop from last weekend) for $313.9 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $752.2 Million, on a budget of $100 Million.

Inside Out 2 was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $6.7 Million (a 22% drop from last weekend) for $626.8 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $1.55 Billion, on a budget of $200 Million.

These films: Harold and the Purple Crayon, Longlegs, The Firing Squad, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Bad Boys: Ride or Die 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:

Trap is a 2024 American psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan for Blinding Edge Pictures. It stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill, and its plot follows a serial killer evading a police blockade while attending a concert with his daughter.

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay by David Guion and Michael Handelman, based on the 1955 children’s book by Crockett Johnson. The film stars Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, and Zooey Deschanel. It serves as a sequel to the original book, whereas the adventurous Harold grows up with his magical purple crayon. After he draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds that he has a lot to learn about real life.

The Firing Squad is a 2024 American adventure drama film written and directed by Timothy A. Chey and starring Kevin Sorbo and Cuba Gooding Jr.

Next week sees the release of Borderlands, Cuckoo, In Ends With Us, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Deadpool & Wolverine will be the Number One film at the box office for the third week 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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