Box Office – May 31-June 2, 2024: THE GARFIELD MOVIE, FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA, IF, & More

Box Office May 31-June 2, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for May 31, 2024 through June 2, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

The Garfield Movie was Number One at the United States box office over the weekend with $14 Million (a 42% drop from last weekend).

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was Second at the United States box office over the weekend with $10.7 Million (a 59% drop from last weekend).

IF was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $10.5 Million (a 35% drop from last weekend).

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $8.9 Million (a 33% drop from last weekend) for $140.1 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $337.2 Million.

The Fall Guy was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $4.1 Million (a 30% drop from last weekend).

These films: The Strangers: Chapter 1, Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle, In a Violent Nature, Ezra, and Summer Camp 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:

Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle is a 2024 Japanese animated sports film written and directed by Susumu Mitsunaka and produced by Production I.G. Based on Haruichi Furudate’s manga series Haikyu!!, it is a direct sequel to the anime television series, as well as its first film adaptation. The film stars Ayumu Murase, Kaito Ishikawa, Yuki Kaji, and Yuichi Nakamura as part of an ensemble cast.

In a Violent Nature is a 2024 Canadian slasher film written and directed by Chris Nash. Described as an “ambient slasher”, the film follows a mute killer who targets a group of teenagers in the Ontario wilderness, with the events observed largely from the killer’s perspective.

Ezra is a 2023 American comedy drama film directed by Tony Goldwyn and written by Tony Spiridakis. It stars Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, Vera Farmiga, Whoopi Goldberg, Rainn Wilson, Tony Goldwyn, William Fitzgerald, and Robert De Niro.

Summer Camp is a 2024 American comedy film written and directed by Castille Landon. It stars Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Beverly D’Angelo, Nicole Richie, Josh Peck, Betsy Sodaro, Dennis Haysbert, and Eugene Levy.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Bad Boys: Ride or Die, The Watchers, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Bad Boys: Ride or Die 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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