Box Office – June 2-4, 2023: SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, THE LITTLE MERMAID, THE BOOGEYMAN, & More

Box Office June 2-4, 2023

The theatrical movie box office results for June 2, 2023 through June 4, 2023 have been released.

The Box Office

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $120.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $208.6 Million.

The Little Mermaid was Second at the box office over the weekend with $40.6 Million (a 58% drop from last weekend) for $186.2 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $326.7 Million.

The Boogeyman premiered in Third Place in United States theaters with $12.3 Million so far.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 was Fourth at the box office over the weekend with $10.2 Million (a 51% drop from last weekend) for $322.7 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $780.1 Million.

Fast X was Fifth at the box office over the weekend with $9.2 Million (a 60% drop from last weekend) for $128.4 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made over $603.2 Million.

These films: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, About My Father, The Machine, You Hurt My Feelings, and Kandahar 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:

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a 2023 American computer-animated superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales / Spider-Man, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), it is set in a shared multiverse of alternate universes called the Spider-Verse.

The film is directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, in their feature directorial debuts, from a screenplay written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller (who both also co-produce) and David Callaham. Shameik Moore voices Miles, starring alongside Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Vélez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, Daniel Kaluuya, Mahershala Ali, and Oscar Isaac.

In the film, Miles goes on an adventure with Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman across the multiverse where he meets a new team of Spider-People known as the Spider-Society, led by Miguel O’ Hara / Spider-Man 2099, but comes into conflict with them over handling a new threat.

The Boogeyman is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage from a screenplay by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, and Mark Heyman. It is based on the 1973 short story of the same name, by Stephen King. The film stars Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, and David Dastmalchian.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will be Number One at the box office for a second week.

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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