Box Office – January 26-28, 2024: THE BEEKEEPER, MEAN GIRLS, WONKA, & More

Box Office January 26-28, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for January 26, 2024 through January 28, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

The Beekeeper was Number One film at the United States box office over the weekend with $7.4 Million (a 14% decrease from last weekend).

Mean Girls was Second at the United States box office over the weekend with $7.3 Million (a 37% decrease from last weekend).

Wonka was Third at the United States box office for the third week in a row with $5.9 Million (a 12% decrease from last weekend) for $195.1 Million so far. Wonka is still in the Top Five at the box office after seven weeks of release. Worldwide, the film has made $552 Million.

Migration was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $5.1 Million (a 6% decrease from last weekend).

Anyone But You was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $4.8 Million (a 11% decrease from last weekend).

These films: Fighter (which premiered this weekend), Poor Things, American Fiction, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and Godzilla Minus One 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:

Fighter is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Siddharth Anand, based on a story he wrote with Ramon Chibb. Produced under Viacom18 Studios and Marflix Pictures, the film stars Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor, and serves as the first installment in a planned aerial action franchise.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Skin Deep, The Promised Land, Argylle, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Argylle 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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