Box Office – August 9-11, 2024: DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, IT ENDS WITH US, TWISTERS, & More

Box Office August 9-11, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for August 9, 2024 through August 11, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Deadpool & Wolverine was Number One at the United States box office for the third week in a row with $54.1 Million (a 44% drop from last weekend) for $494.3 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $1.02 Billion, on a budget of $200 Million.

It Ends With Us premiered in Second Place at the United States box office with $50 Million. Worldwide, the film has made $80 Million, on a budget of $25 Million.

Twisters was Third at the United States box office with $15 Million (a 34% drop from last weekend) for $222.2 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $310 Million, on a budget of $155 Million.

Borderland premiered in Fourth Place at the United States box office with $8.8 Million. Worldwide, the film has made $10 Million, on a budget of $110–120 million.

Despicable Me 4 was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $8 Million (a 30% drop from last weekend) for $330.1 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $807.8 Million, on a budget of $100 Million.

These films: Trap, Inside Out 2, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Cuckoo, Longlegs 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:

It Ends with Us is a 2024 American romantic drama film directed by Justin Baldoni from a screenplay by Christy Hall, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover. The film stars Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, and Hasan Minhaj.

Borderlands is a 2024 American science fiction action comedy film co-written and directed by Eli Roth, based on the video game series developed by Gearbox Software. It stars Cate Blanchett as Lillith, an outlaw who forms an alliance with a team of misfits to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe. The ensemble cast also features Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Édgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Cuckoo is a 2024 science fiction horror film written and directed by Tilman Singer, and starring Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas, Jessica Henwick, and Dan Stevens. A co-production between Germany and the United States, the film follows a teenager (Schafer) who moves to the German Alps to live with her father (Csokas) but becomes disturbed by strange occurrences as her father’s boss (Stevens) embroils her family in a sinister plot.

Next week sees the release of Alien: Romulus and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview:  Alien: Romulus 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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