Box Office – February 23-25, 2024: BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE, DEMON SLAYER, ORDINARY ANGELS, & More

Box Office February 23-25, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for February 23, 2024 through February 25, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Bob Marley: One Love was Number One at the United States box office for the second weekend in row with $13.5 Million (a 53% decrease from last weekend).

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—To the Hashira Training premiered in Second Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $11.5 Million.

Ordinary Angels premiered in Third Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $6.5 Million.

Madame Web premiered in Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $6 Million (a 61% decrease from last weekend). Madame Web has officially bombed at the box office.

Migration was Fifth at the United States box office with $3 Million (a 22% decrease from last weekend) for $120.4 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $267.4 Million.

These films: Argylle, Wonka, Drive-Away Dolls (which premiered this weekend), The Beekeeper, and The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes 4-6  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:

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Hashira Training (Hepburn: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Geiko-hen), also known simply as Demon Slayer: Hashira Training, is a 2024 Japanese animated dark fantasy action film based on the “Swordsmith Village” and “Hashira Training” arc of the 2016–20 manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge. It is a direct sequel to the third season of the anime television series as well as its third film adaptation, following Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village (2023). The film is directed by Haruo Sotozaki and written by Ufotable staff members.

Ordinary Angels is a 2024 American drama film directed by Jon Gunn and written by Meg Tilly and Kelly Fremon Craig. It stars Hilary Swank, Alan Ritchson, Nancy Travis, and Tamala Jones.

Drive-Away Dolls (titled onscreen as Drive-Away Dykes) is a 2024 American comedy road film directed by Ethan Coen. Coen wrote the screenplay with his wife Tricia Cooke; they also produced the film with Robert Graf and Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. It stars Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal, Bill Camp, and Matt Damon.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Dune: Part Two, Silver Haze, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Dune: Part Two will be the Number One film at the box office over the weekend.

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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