Some Box Office August 4, 2023
Barbie continues to triumph
Some Box Office August 4, 2023
Barbie keeps on pounding along making good money (or, considering the lousy box office picture of 2023, it's making great money) and this doll story might be headed for somewhere around a billion before it starts to cool off. Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible 7 is still hanging in there but the competition has turned out to be a lot stronger than I think was anticipated for it's play dates. Indy V is crumbling and going into second run types of theaters which seems to indicate it is rapidly walking toward the exit doors, and for that matter The Flash is on VOD and exiting theaters because whatever audience there was for it (not that many!) have seen it and are done. Oppenheimer keeps steadily making money, not big money like Margot Robbie, but for a film that is generating all sorts of jokes on social media that you've got to have a pretty good IQ to watch the film, it's doing well.
The reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started its run on Wednesday instead of Thursday and this appears to be a gimmick to juice-up the weekend numbers by squeezing in an extra day. Does that mean anything since all of the usual outlets that talk up movie box office will of course know what the gimmick is? The final totals will be what matters but perhaps there's a psychological angle to this which helps theater owners and the production company, too, and with "only" a production cost tagged as $70 million, the hurdle to get over and into profit monies isn't as high like the recent, bloated mega-superhero productions. Sound of Freedom chugs along making money and is supposed to be going into international distribution so the $155 million should swell ... not bad at all for a film made for under $15 million. And speaking of budgets, Disney's Haunted Mansion cost a reported $150 million and it has had a dismal start.
Films ranked by International earnings:
- $845,303,497 Worldwide - Guardians of the Galaxy III
- $816,822,894 Worldwide - Barbie
- $682,567,162 Worldwide - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- $564,244,557 Worldwide - Little Mermaid
- $452,650,787 Worldwide - Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning
- $439,919,999 Worldwide - Oppenheimer
- $413,902,159 Worldwide - Transformers Rise of the Beasts
- $395,121,504 Worldwide - Elemental
- $357,638,774 Worldwide - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- $268,130,730 Worldwide - The Flash
- $155,000,017 Domestic Only - Sound of Freedom
- $47,201,585 Worldwide - Asteroid City
- $40,361,341 Worldwide - Disney's Haunted Mansion
- $10,202,275 Domestic Only - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- $2,320,250,281 Worldwide - Avatar: The Way of Water
- $1,356,699,911 Worldwide - The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- $721,294,128 Worldwide - Fast X
- $463,616,575 Worldwide - Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
- $427,259,159 Worldwide - John Wick: Chapter 4
- $207,954,502 Worldwide - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- $133,438,006 Worldwide - Shazam! Fury of the Gods
- $25,326,625 Worldwide - Renfield
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