Monday, January 30, 2023

USA movie box office: 4th weekend of the year (2017-2023)

 
USA box office on the 4th weekend of January 2023 is up 43% compared to last year when "Spiderman: No Way Home" was the top-grossing movie.  

And it's down 57% compared to the 2018 peak when "Maze Runner: The Death Cure" was the top-grossing movie.

Source:  Box Office Mojo

Variety, 1/29/2023
Elsewhere at the box office, only one new movie — Neon’s disturbing sci-fi thriller “Infinity Pool” — opened in theaters nationwide. The R-rated film, from director Brandon Cronenberg (son of genre legend David Cronenberg), debuted to muted results, generating $2.7 million from 1,835 cinemas. Alexander Skarsgård and Cleopatra Coleman star in “Infinity Pool” as vacationers at a wealthy tropical island. But when a mysterious woman (played by Mia Goth) convinces the couple to venture away from the resort, they suffer a tragic accident that pushes them into a world of consequence-free violence. What unfolds next is the kind of stomach-squelching horror that makes the film’s mediocre “C-” CinemaScore unsurprising, even though critics dug “Infinity Pool” (which holds an 89% average on Rotten Tomatoes).

1/29/2023 update starts here

USA box office on the 4th weekend of January 2023 is up 120% compared to last year when "Spiderman: No Way Home" was the top-grossing movie.  

And it's down 45% compared to the 2017 peak when "Split" was the top-grossing movie.



Deadline, 12/28/2022
Yes, business looks to be improving, with 100 wide releases anticipated to hit the theatrical calendar next year. That’s still down by four movies from this year’s 104. Sources don’t believe we’ll be fully back in business until there are 120 titles. 2019 counted 143 wide theatrical releases. The box office year of normalcy, per those in film distribution and exhibition, keeps getting kicked down the road: It was supposed to be 2022. Now it’s not next year — it’s either 2024 or 2025.   
However, the collapse that weighs heavy on several studio executives’ brows remains with original movies aimed at adults that are non-genre (meaning not action, not sci-fi, not horror). It’s not just specialty, highbrow titles but broader studio attempts as well. 
This past Christmas saw two casualties in Paramount’s $80M Margot Robbie-Brad Pitt awards-season bait Babylon as well as TriStar/Compelling Pictures/Black Label’s $45M attempt to grab a broad and Black audience with the Whitney Houston biopic. But I Wanna Dance with Somebody was no Ray ($20M opening, $75.3M final domestic in 2004), with its ticket sales earning $6.75M in four days.

Original 1/28/2023 post starts here

USA box office on the 4th weekend of January 2023 is up 120% compared to last year when "Spiderman: No Way Home" was the top-grossing movie.  

And it's down 45% compared to the 2017 peak when "Split" was the top-grossing movie.

Source:  Box Office Mojo

Variety, 1/28/2023
While “Avatar 2” has seen little high-profile competition in the weeks since the holidays, an international blockbuster did land stateside this weekend and is now projecting a finish in the domestic box office’s top five. The action-espionage thriller “Pathaan” drew an estimated $1.86 million opening day gross from 694 locations, drawing Friday’s best per-theater average.

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