Box Office July 12-14, 2024
The theatrical movie box office results for July 12, 2024 through July 14, 2024 have been released.
The Box Office
Despicable Me 4 was Number One at the United States box office over the weekend with $44.6 Million (a 40% drop from last weekend) for $211.1 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $323.5 Million.
Longlegs premiered in Second Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $22.6 Million so far.
Inside Out 2 was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $20.7 Million (a 32% drop from last weekend) for $572.5 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $1.29 Billion.
A Quiet Place: Day One was Fourth at the United States box office over the weekend with $11.8 Million (a 43% drop from last weekend). Worldwide, the film has made $199.9 Million.
Fly Me to the Moon premiered in Fifth Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $10 Million so far.
These films: Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1, MaXXXine, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, and The Lion King 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:
Longlegs is a 2024 American horror thriller film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. It stars Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, who also produced the film through his Saturn Films production company. The cast also features Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee and Dakota Daulby in supporting roles. The film follows an FBI agent tasked with tracking down an occultist serial killer, whom she realises she has a personal connection to.
Fly Me to the Moon is a 2024 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy and a story by Bill Kirstein and Keenan Flynn. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash, Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Christian Zuber, Nick Dillenburg, Ray Romano, and Woody Harrelson. Its plot follows the relationship between a marketing specialist and the NASA director in charge of the Apollo 11 launch.
Next Week's Films
Next week sees the release of Oddity, Twisters, The Abandon, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Twisters 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",
