Retiring Guy's Digest: USA box office on the 4th weekend in June (2017-2023)

USA box office on the fourth weekend in June 2023 is down 19% compared to last year when "Elvis" was the top-grossing movie.

Friday's box office is down 61% from the 2018 peak, when "Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom" was the top-grossing movie.

Source: Box Office Mojo

Headline: Variety, 6/24/2023

Somewhere across the multiverse, “The Flash,” once touted by its own studio as “one of the greatest superhero movies of all time,” should be towering over the box office with ease in its second weekend of release.\
But in this universe, audiences are flat-out rejecting the Warner Bros. movie, starring Ezra Miller as the eponymous, timeline-spanning speedster. Rather than taking a victory lap, the DC comic book adventure is cratering in third place behind holdovers “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and Pixar’s “Elemental” and ever-so-slightly ahead of Jennifer Lawrence’s new R-rated comedy “No Hard Feelings.”
Over the weekend, “The Flash” suffered a brutal 73% decline in its second weekend with $15.3 million from 4,265 North American theaters. That’s a far bigger drop than recent DC adaptations like “Black Adam” (59%) and “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” (69%), which ended up as notable money losers for the studio.

Original 6/24/2023 post starts here

USA box office on the Friday of the third weekend in June 2023 is down 26% compared to last year when "Elvis" was the top-grossing movie.

Friday's box office is down 64% from the 2018 peak, when "Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom" was the top-grossing movie.

Source: Box Office Mojo

Headline: Variety, 6/24/2023

“No Hard Feelings” came out on top of the domestic box office on its opening day, bedding $6.25 million in Friday and Thursday preview screenings from 3,208 venues. Meanwhile, the top spot for the weekend is a battle between animated adventures; both “Elemental” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” are staying above “The Flash,” which looks to be collapsing in its second outing.
Heading into the weekend, Sony and Columbia’s “No Hard Feelings” was projected to launch with a mild $12 million. The raunchy R-rated Jennifer Lawrence vehicle is already outrunning those estimates, now forecasting a debut of $15 million or so.
“No Hard Feelings” may lose pace to holdovers as the weekend unfolds, but box-office-king-for-a-day is certainly a higher honor than most studio comedies have achieved of late.

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