Box Office Report: How Far Will It Go?

Looking at this past weekend’s box office report, you’d think it had been a quiet week for major releases. While it wasn’t one full of studio tentpoles or the like, there were a few movies aiming for, at the very least, more than $10 million in their opening weekend, and none of them made it.

Nothing could compete with the might of Moana 2, which is proving to be one of Disney’s most efficient money-makers in 2024. In its second week of release, it retained the top spot, even with a 62.8% drop in attendance from its opening weekend, and still brought in an extra $52 million. That brings its domestic gross to over $300 million, which is well over double what both Venom: The Last Dance and The Wild Robot have earned in America so far. Its $600 million worldwide gross makes it the fifth highest-grossing movie of the year. It seems perfectly reasonable for it to get past the $714.4 million of Dune: Part Two. The big earner of 2024 will remain another Disney movie, Inside Out 2, which has a mighty $1.69 billion to its name.

The highest-placed new release of the weekend was Pushpa 2: The Rule, a Tegelu-language action movie that’s the second installment of an ongoing series. It’s one of the most expensive Indian films ever made and runs at 200 minutes, so it’s epic in every sense of the word (it’s also currently the third highest-grossing film in India of 2024.) It’s been no slouch in the US for it, with a $9.3 million debut from 1,245 theatres, which puts it at number four, ahead of Red One) (remember that movie?)

Did you know they re-released Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar in theatres? That post-Oppenheimer boost is no joke. Despite being one of Nolan’s most divisive films, it managed to earn $4.425 million from 165 locations: that’s a per-cinema average of $26,818!

At number seven is the anime movie Solo Leveling: ReAwakening with $2.4 million from 846 theatres. That put it ahead of Y2K, Kyle Mooney’s nostalgic horror-comedy. An A24 label and ‘cool’ prestige buzz can’t help every movie, as this one only earned just over $2.1 million from 2,108 theatres.

Right behind that is a festive concert movie, For King + Country: A Drummer Boy Christmas - Live with $2.05 million from 1,540 theatres. Jesus beat lycanthropes as it landed two places ahead of Werewolves, which made $1.1 million.

And onto indie releases: thriller The Order grossed $878,000 from 603 cinemas; the musician Laufey’s A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl brought in $845,370; another music movie, RM: Right People, Wrong Place, took in $598,000 from 594 places; The Return, wherein Ralph Fiennes takes his shirt off (he doesn’t do that in Conclave), earned $354,585 from 629 cinemas; the Trailer Park Boys movie Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties, made $210,000 from 285 locations.

The British horror-comedy Get Away, starring Aisling Bea and Nick Frost, earned $101,999 from 474 places; Paul Schrader’s latest film Oh, Canada brought in $33,257 from three cinemas; the apocalyptic musical The End, with Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, collected $22,747 from three cinemas; and the Danish historical drama The Girl with the Needle got $11,488 from two places.

This coming week sees the release of the animated fantasy-drama The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim and the latest Sony-Marvel villains movie Kraven the Hunter.

You can check out the rest of the weekend box office here.