Box Office – November 8-10, 2024: VENOM: THE LAST DANCE, THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER, HERETIC, & More

Box Office November 8-10, 2024

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

The Box Office

Venom: The Last Dance was First at the United States box office over the weekend with $16.2 Million (a 37% drop from last weekend) for $114.8 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $394.2 Million, on a budget of $120 Million.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever premiered in Second Place over the weekend at the United States box office with $11.1 Million.

Heretic premiered in Third Place over the weekend at the United States box office with $11 Million.

The Wild Robot was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $6.6 Million (a 11% drop from last weekend) for $130.8 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $292.4 Million, on a budget of $78 Million.

Smile 2 was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $5 Million (a 26% drop from last weekend) for $60.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $123.6 Million, on a budget of $28 Million.

These films: Conclave, Anora, Here, We Live in Time, and Terrifier 3 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:

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a 2024 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Dallas Jenkins, based on the 1972 novel by Barbara Robinson. Starring Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Molly Belle Wright, and Lauren Graham, the plot centers around the Herdmans, a group of juvenile delinquent siblings who have inadvertently found themselves starring in their small town’s Christmas pageant.

Heretic is a 2024 American psychological horror film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. It stars Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East, and follows two Mormon missionaries who attempt to convert a reclusive Englishman, only to realise he is more dangerous than he seems.

Next week sees the release of Red One and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Red One 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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