Box Office – January 19-21, 2024: MEAN GIRLS, THE BEEKEEPER, WONKA, & More

Box Office January 19-21, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for January 19, 2024 through January 21, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Mean Girls was the Number One film at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $11.7 Million (a 59% decrease from last weekend).

The Beekeeper was Second at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $8.4 Million (a 49% decrease from last weekend).

Wonka was Third at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $6.4 Million (a 24% decrease from last weekend) for $187.1 Million so far. Wonka is still in the Top Five at the box office after six weeks of release. Worldwide, the film has made $532 Million.

Anyone But You was Fourth at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $5.4 Million (a 24% decrease from last weekend).

Migration was Fifth at the United States box office for the second week in a row with $5.3 Million (a 15% decrease from last weekend).

These films: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, I.S.S. (which premiered this weekend), Night Swim, The Boys in the Boat, and Poor Things 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:

I.S.S. is a 2023 American science fiction thriller film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and written by Nick Shafir. The film stars Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr., Maria Mashkova, Costa Ronin, and Pilou Asbæk.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Miller’s Girl, American Star, Badland Hunters, The Pianist, The Seeding, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Mean Girls 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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