Box Office – January 12-14, 2024: MEAN GIRLS, THE BEEKEEPER, WONKA, & More

Box Office January 12-14, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for January 12, 2024 through January 14, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Mean Girls premiered in First Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $28 Million.

The Beekeeper premiered in Second Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $16.7 Million.

Wonka was Third at the United States box office with $14.4 Million (a 40% decrease from last weekend) for $176.1 Million so far. Wonka is still in the Top Five at the box office after five weeks of release. Worldwide, the film has made $505.2 Million.

Anyone But You was Fourth at the United States box office with $6.9 Million (a 29% increase from last weekend).

Migration was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $10.2 Million (a 40% increase from last weekend).

These films: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Night Swim, Guntur Kaaram (which premiered this weekend), The Boys in the Boat, and The Book Clarence (which premiered this weekend) 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:

Mean Girls is a 2024 American musical teen comedy film directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. (in their feature directorial debuts), from a screenplay by Tina Fey. It is based on the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Mark Waters’s 2004 comedy film, both written by Fey and based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes. It stars Angourie Rice, Auli?i Cravalho and Christopher Briney with Reneé Rapp reprising her role from the stage musical, while Fey and Tim Meadows reprise their roles from the original film.

The Beekeeper is a 2024 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer and written by Kurt Wimmer. The film stars Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, Phylicia Rashad and Jeremy Irons.

Guntur Kaaram is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language action drama film written and directed by Trivikram Srinivas, and produced by S. Radha Krishna through Haarika & Hassine Creations. It stars Mahesh Babu, Sreeleela, Meenakshi Chaudhary, Ramya Krishna, Jayaram, Prakash Raj, and Jagapathi Babu.

The Book of Clarence is a 2023 American biblical comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeymes Samuel, and produced by Samuel, Jay-Z, James Lassiter, and Tendo Nagenda. The film stars LaKeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, RJ Cyler, Anna Diop, David Oyelowo, Micheal Ward, Alfre Woodard, Teyana Taylor, Caleb McLaughlin, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James McAvoy, and Benedict Cumberbatch. It follows a struggling down-on-his-luck man named Clarence living in A.D. 33 Jerusalem who looks to capitalize on the rise of Jesus Christ, by claiming to be a new Messiah sent by God, in an attempt to free himself of debt and start a life of glory for himself.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of I.S.S., Origin, The Breaking Ice, Bring Him to Me, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Wonka will be Number One 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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