Box Office – July 21-July 23, 2023: BARBIE, OPPENHEIMER, SOUND OF FREEDOM, & More

Box Office July 21-July 23, 2023

The theatrical movie box office results for July 21, 2023 through July 23, 2023 have been released.

The Box Office

Barbie premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $155 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $337 Million.

Oppenheimer premiered in Second Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $80.5 Million so far.

Sound of Freedom was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $20.1 Million (a 26% drop from last weekend) for $124.7 Million so far.

Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part One was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $19.5 Million for $118.7 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $370.8 Million.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $6.7 Million (a 45% drop from last weekend) for $159 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $335 Million.

These films: Insidious: The Red Door, Elemental, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and No Hard Feelings 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:

Barbie is a 2023 American fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig and written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. Based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel, it is the first live-action Barbie film after numerous computer-animated direct-to-video and streaming television films. The film stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, who go on a journey of self-discovery following an existential crisis, alongside an ensemble cast that includes America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Simu Liu, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Helen Mirren, and Will Ferrell.

Oppenheimer is a 2023 biographical drama film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was pivotal in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project, and thereby ushering in the Atomic Age. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer’s military handler, and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a senior member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. The supporting cast includes Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Haunted Mansion, Talk To Me, Sympathy for the Devil, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Barbie will be Number One at the box office for the second 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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