Box Office – August 4-6, 2023: BARBIE Crosses the $1 Billion Mark Worldwide, MEG 2: THE TRENCH Premieres in 2nd, & More

Box Office August 4-6, 2023

The theatrical movie box office results for August 4, 2023 through August 6, 2023 have been released.

The Box Office

Barbie was Number One at the United States box office over the weekend for the third week in a row with $53 Million (a 43% drop from last weekend, the same percentage drop as the previous weekend) for $459.3 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $1 Billion.

Meg 2: The Trench premiered in Second Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $30 Million so far.

Oppenheimer was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $28.7 Million (a 39% drop from last weekend) for $228.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $552.8 Million.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem premiered in Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $27.9 Million so far.

Haunted Mansion was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $8.9 Million so far.

These films: Sound of Freedom, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part One, Talk to Me, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and Elemental 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:

Meg 2: The Trench (titled Shark 2 in some territories)[2] is a 2023 science fiction action film directed by Ben Wheatley from a screenplay by Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, and Dean Georgaris. It is based on the 1999 novel The Trench by Steve Alten. Serving as the sequel to The Meg (2018), the film stars Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sophia Cai, Page Kennedy, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Skyler Samuels and Cliff Curtis. Like the previous film, it follows a group of scientists who must outrun and outswim the titular Megalodons when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a 2023 American computer-animated superhero film directed by Jeff Rowe from a screenplay he co-wrote with Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Dan Hernandez, and Benji Samit. It is the seventh theatrical Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and a reboot of the series. The film stars the voices of Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon as the titular team alongside a supporting ensemble voice cast that includes Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Natasia Demetriou, Ayo Edebiri, Giancarlo Esposito, Post Malone, Rogen, Paul Rudd, and Maya Rudolph. In the film, after years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtles set out to be accepted as normal teenagers through acts of heroism. The brothers go on a hunt for a mysterious crime syndicate, but trouble arises when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Aporia, The Pod Generation, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Barbie will be Number One at the box office for the second 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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