The latest entry in the Ghostbusters franchise snagged the top spot, but Dune held on to No. 2 and a pair of new horror releases set records for their studios.
“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” collected $45.2 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, handing Sony Pictures the studio’s first No. 1 film since last summer.
March 24 (UPI) — “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $45.2 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday. Coming in at No. 2 with $17.6 million is “Dune: Part 2,” followed by “Kung Fu Panda 4” with $16.8 million, “Immaculate” at No. 4 with $5.4 million and “Arthur […] The post ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ tops weekend box office with $45.2M first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
As predicted, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has easily won the domestic box office this weekend, but it made slightly more money than even Sony’s early predictions: It debuted to $45 million in the U.S., which is a nice big number compared to everything else on the charts, but is not so nice or big when compared to the debut of its predecessor, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. That one debuted to $44 million in November of 2021, which was still when we were taking COVID-19 seriously, so Frozen Empire is...
OPENINGS: GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE (Columbia/Sony) played as a family movie, with a Saturday afternoon bump, and that enabled it to match projections at $45.2M, slightly higher than the $44M start for 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. However, Frozen Empire cost $25M more than Afterlife, so a 3% increase at the box office may not cover the […]
OPENINGS: ARTHUR THE KING (Lionsgate) was clearly hoping to emulate the sleeper success of 2022’s Dog, which ran a $14.9M opening into $61.8M in the US. However, the Mark Wahlberg vehicle came up very short with a $7.5M start. Production/marketing costs are reportedly $60M, which will make for a tough road to profit. Arthur […]
FRIDAY PM: As of right now, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is looking all right with a $16M Friday and $42M-$43M opening at 4,345 theaters. That Friday is on par with Ghostbusters: Afterlife‘s first day (plus previews) of $16.6M, and should that 3-day keep up, it will only be a $1M shy of the 2021 Jason Reitman […]
The South Korean box office had a familiar look. Dark drama, “Exhuma” dominated the chart with a more than 50% market share for the fourth weekend in a row. And, for the third successive weekend, “Dune 2” placed second. “Exhuma,” about two shaman, a feng shui master and a mortician who attempt to reverse the […]
March and 2024's first quarter come to a close in congruence with the Good Friday and Easter Sunday holiday frame as one major release and the prior month's key holdovers will be prominent.
"Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" easily froze out the competition at the box office this weekend, topping the charts with a solid if unspectacular $45.2 million debut, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore. Directed by Gil Kenan, the latest installment in Sony's 40-year-old phantasm-fighting franchise came in slightly ahead of its 2021 predecessor, "Ghostbusters: Afterlife." That film, directed by "Frozen Empire" co-writer Jason Reitman, opened to $44 million. But the slight uptick...
As predicted earlier in the weekend, Kung Fu Panda 4 has maintained its lead against Dune: Part Two for a second week in a row, but only by the tiniest margin—as in, less than $1 million. Panda 4 made $30 million, bringing it to a solid $107 million after just two weeks, while the Dune sequel made $29.1 million, bringing it to $205 million after three weeks. Movies are back! Rounding out the top five, and waaaayyyy behind the top two, are Mark Wahlberg dog movie Arthur The King (debuting at...
Po and Paul Atreides were still going strong at the weekend box office, with Kung Fu Panda 4 and Dune: Part Two neck-and-neck at the top of the charts with $30 million and $29.1 million respectively. DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s animated adventure flew past the $100 million mark this weekend, taking its domestic total to $107.7 million. […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Kung Fu Panda 4...