Box Office – September 13-15, 2023: TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR, THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER, PAW PATROL: THE MIGHTY MOVIE, & More

Box Office September 13-15, 2023

The theatrical movie box office results for September 13, 2023 through September 15, 2023 have been released.

The Box Office

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour premiered in Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $97 Million so far.

The Exorcist: Believer was Second at the United States box office with $11 Million (a 58% drop from last weekend) for $609.5 Million so far.

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie was Third at the United States box office with $7.2 Million (a 38% drop from last weekend) so far.

Saw X was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $5.7 Million (a 27% drop from last weekend) so far.

The Creator was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $4.3 Million (a 31% drop from last weekend) so far.

These films: A Haunting in Venice, The Blind, The Nun II, The Equalizer 3, and Dumb Money 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:

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is a 2023 American concert film produced by singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Directed by Sam Wrench, the film documents the Eras Tour, Swift’s 2023–2024 concert tour in support of her discography. Swift struck an unprecedented distribution agreement with AMC Theatres and Cinemark Theatres for the film after negotiations with the major film studios fell through.

Filming occurred in August 2023 at three shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, with SAG-AFTRA permitting the production to proceed amidst its 2023 strike. Swift announced The Eras Tour later that month, catching studios and exhibitors off guard and causing several films that had been set for release on or near October 13 to move their release dates. The unconventional release strategy was the topic of media discourse, with many journalists and industry personnel praising Swift’s move to bypass the studios and directly partner with theaters.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, The Persian Version, Butcher’s Crossing, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour 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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