Monday, January 9, 2023

USA movie box office for 1st weekend in January 2017-2023


USA box office on the 1st post-New Year's weekend of 2023 was up 62% compared to last year when "Spiderman:  No Way Out" was the top-grossing movie.  But it was down 40% compared to the 2018 peak when "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" was the top-grossing movie.

Source:  Box Office Mojo

Variety, 1/8/2023
Universal and Blumhouse’s creepy doll thriller “M3GAN” — short for Model 3 Generative Android — made a killing in its opening weekend, collecting a better-than-expected $30.2 million from 3,509 North American theaters. Internationally, the film has generated $14.8 million to date, taking its global tally to $45 million. 
Heading into the weekend, the PG-13 film was projected to open to $17 million to $20 million in North America, but stellar word-of-mouth and audiences’ enduring love for horror were key in significantly outperforming expectations. It’s a killer start for the $12 million-budgeted movie.

1/8/2023 update starts here

Saturday's box office on the 1st post-New Year's weekend of 2023 was up 62% compared to last year when "Spiderman:  No Way Out" was the top-grossing movie, but it was down 26% compared to the 2018 peak when "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" was the top-grossing movie.

Source:  Box Office Mojo

The Wrap, 1/6/2023
The problem, he said, was that seaside theaters that were open in 1981, the era in which the film is set, simply don’t exist anymore. “It’s not that long ago, but all the cinemas on the seafront are gone,” he said. “There’s one in Worthing that’s quite nice, but it’s very small. The one that Sam had originally written about was in Brighton, but it’s now a casino and it’s right on the promenade, which would have been an absolute nightmare to control. We looked at places online and found a great one in North Yorkshire, but when I asked (production designer) Mark Tildesley about it, he said, ‘Oh yeah, it was knocked down last week.’”

Original 1/7/2023 post starts here

Friday's box office on the 1st post-New Year's weekend of 2023 was up 50% compared to last year and down 32% compared to the 2018 peak, when "Insidious:  The Last Key" was the top-grossing movie.
 
Source:  Box Office Mojo

The Wrap, 1/7/2023
The first box office weekend of 2023 has brought the first hit of 2023 as Universal/Blumhouse’s campy killer doll horror film “M3GAN” is riding strong critics’ reviews to a $27 million opening while Disney/20th Century’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” stays No. 1 and crosses the $500 million mark in North America. 
Made on a $12 million budget before marketing costs, “M3GAN” was projected for an opening weekend of $17-22 million from 3,509 locations and is now beating those expectations after critics praised the film for its self-aware dark humor, giving it a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score. Audience metrics haven’t been quite as strong with a B on CinemaScore and a 79% audience RT rating, though it is rare for any horror film to have exceptionally high metrics.


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