Box Office – September 20-23, 2023: TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER, & More

Box Office September 20-23, 2023

The theatrical movie box office results for September 20, 2023 through September 23, 2023 have been released.

The Box Office

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour was Number One at the box office for the second week in a row at the United States box office with $31 Million (a 67% drop from last weekend) for $129.7 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $142.3 Million.

Killers of the Flower Moon premiered in Second Place at the United States box office with $23 Million.

The Exorcist: Believer was Third at the United States box office with $5.6 Million (a 49% drop from last weekend) so far.

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $4.4 Million (a 35% drop from last weekend) so far.

The Nightmare Before Christmas was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $4.1 Million so far.

These films: Saw X, The Creator, A Haunting in Venice, The Nun II, and Hocus Pocus 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:

Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic revisionist Western crime drama film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, who co-wrote the screenplay with Eric Roth, based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann. Its plot centers on a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, committed after oil was discovered on tribal land.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone lead an ensemble cast that includes Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, and Brendan Fraser. It is the sixth feature film collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio and the tenth between Scorsese and De Niro, and the eleventh and final collaboration between Scorsese and his musical partner, Robbie Robertson, who died two months before the film’s release; the film is dedicated to Robertson.

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.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Killer, 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 third 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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