Box Office – March 8-10, 2024: KUNG FU PANDA 4, DUNE: PART TWO, IMAGINARY, & More

Box Office March 8-10, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for March 8, 2024 through March 10, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Kung Fu Panda 4 premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $58.3 Million.

Dune: Part Two was Second at the United States box office over the weekend with $46 Million (a 44% decrease from last weekend) for $157 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $367.5 Million.

Imaginary premiered in Third Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $10 Million.

Cabrini premiered in Fourth Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $7.5 Million.

Bob Marley: One Love was Fifth at the United States box office with $13.5 Million (a 45% decrease from last weekend) for $89.3 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $160.5 Million.

These films: Ordinary Angels, Madame Web,  Migration, YOLO (which premiered this weekend),  and Wonka 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:

Kung Fu Panda 4 is a 2024 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the fourth installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise and the sequel to Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016). The film was directed by Mike Mitchell, co-directed by Stephanie Ma Stine (in her feature directorial debut), written by Darren Lemke and the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and produced by Rebecca Huntley. It features Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, and Ian McShane reprising their roles from the previous films, with Awkwafina, Ke Huy Quan, Ronny Chieng, Lori Tan Chinn, and Viola Davis joining the cast. In the film, Po (Black), who must find and train his successor as the new Dragon Warrior, teams up with fox bandit Zhen (Awkwafina) to defeat the evil sorceress, the Chameleon (Davis).

Imaginary is a 2024 American supernatural horror film directed and produced by Jeff Wadlow and written by Wadlow, Greg Erb, and Jason Oremland. It is co-produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions banner and Tower of Babble. The film stars DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Matthew Sato, Veronica Falcón, and Betty Buckley.

Cabrini is a 2024 American biographical drama film directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde and written by Rod Barr, based on a story by both. The film details the life of Catholic missionary Francesca Cabrini, portrayed by Cristiana Dell’Anna, as she encounters resistance to her charity and business efforts in New York City. Cabrini explores the sexism and anti-Italianism faced by Cabrini and others in New York City during the late 19th century.

YOLO is a 2024 Chinese comedy drama film directed by Jia Ling and starring Jia and Lei Jiayin. The film is a comedic adaptation of the 2014 Japanese film 100 Yen Love. It tells the story of Du Leying who has stayed at home for many years, and after meeting boxing coach Hao Kun, she overcame the challenges that followed and started a new life.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of The American Society of Magical Negroes, Arthur the King, One Life, Love Lies Bleeding, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Kung Fu Panda 4 will be the Number One film at the box office for the second weekend 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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