Retiring Guy's Digest: USA box office on the 3rd weekend in June (2017-2023)

USA box office on the second weekend in June 2023 is down a hair compared to last year when "Jurassic World: Dominion" was the top-grossing movie.

Weekend box office is down 40% from the 2018 peak, when "Incredibles 2" was the top-grossing movie

Source: Box Office Mojo

Headline: Variety, 6/17/2023

This weekend’s two new releases were once expected to ignite the summer blockbuster season; instead, both entirely missed the mark. “The Flash” stumbled with $55 million and “Elemental” collected just $29.5 million in their respective debuts. Both films fell short of already-low expectations. Worse, they were pricy endeavors, costing $200 million to make and roughly $100 million to market, so they are shaping up to be huge disappointments in their theatrical runs.
In the lead-up to “The Flash,” executives at Warner Bros. worked hard to convince the public that the film is “one of the greatest superhero movies ever made,” per newly minted DC Studios co-chief James Gunn. Directed by Andy Muschietti, the story picks up as Miller’s Barry Allen a.k.a The Flash travels back in time to prevent his mother’s murder and inadvertently cracks open the DC multiverse. (Cameos abound!)

Original 6/17/2023 post starts here

USA box office on the Friday of the second weekend in June 2023 is up 13% compared to last year when "Jurassic World: Dominion" was the top-grossing movie.

Friday's box office is down 40% from the 2018 peak, when "Incredibles 2" was the top-grossing movie.

Source: Box Office Mojo

Headline: Variety, 6/17/2023

Nine years after it was first announced, “The Flash” has finally dashed into theaters, speeding toward a debut ahead of the box office competition. But the DC Studios film isn’t exactly matching the lightning pace of its superhero.
The Warner Bros. release got started with $24.5 million from 4,234 locations on opening day, which includes $9.7 million in Thursday previews. That’s enough to set the Ezra Miller film on a surefire pathway to a No. 1 debut on domestic charts, but it’ll be tough for it to match projections heading into the weekend — bullish ones predicted a four-day bow as high as $85 million through the Juneteenth holiday.

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