Battle at the Box Office 4/15/24

A24 had their biggest debut of all time with Civil War taking over the box office from Godzilla x Kong, which slipped to second place.

Civil War took in $25.7 million over the weekend, by far the biggest opening in the history of A24.  Civil War was also their most expensive movie ever, with a budget of around $50 million.  The film has not debuted worldwide yet.  Civil War is the biggest debut for director Alex Garland as well, topping his previous best of Annihilation, which made $11.8 million.  The movie got a B- CinemaScore, so we’ll have to see how it fares in its second weekend and what kind of drop it has.

Godzilla x Kong dropped to second place with another $15.5 million.  It now has $158 million domestically and over $400 million worldwide with $436 million and is the 4th biggest movie of the year worldwide.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire remained in third place with $5.7 million. The movie now has $96.9 million domestically and $159.9 million worldwide.  The gap between Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire continues to widen, with Frozen Empire about $2 million down from where Afterlife was in its 4th weekend and about a $6 million total difference between the domestic grosses, with Afterlife just over $112 million at the same point Frozen Empire is at right now.

Kung Fu Panda 4 and Dune Part 2 rounded out the top 5, thanks mostly to last week’s new releases faltering in their second weekends.  Dune Part 2 is currently at just over $683 million worldwide.

Monkey Man slipped out of the top 5 in its second weekend, dropping 60% and making $4 million. It has $17.7 million domestically.  The First Omen dropped 54% from last weekend and made another $3.8 million, bringing it to $14.6 million.

Shrek 2 was in the top 10 for a special 20th-anniversary screening, taking 8th place with $1.4 million in 1,512 theaters.  The Long Game, the first release from distributor Mucho Mas Media, took 9th place with $1.3 million.

Sasquatch Sunset took the Per Theater average for the weekend, making $10,127 in each of the 9 theaters it played in over the weekend.