‘Mean Girls’ Has Edge During First Weak Weekend Of 2024 – Saturday Box Office
deadline.comThere’s not much going on at the weekend box office. Yes, point fingers at the dual strikes’ impact on the theatrical schedule.
But it’s also January, which typically counts a couple of the year’s lowest-grossing weekends. The 3-day for all titles is looking at $68M, which is not only the first weak weekend of the New Year, but -8% off the same frame a year ago, which did $72.4M.
Per Box Office Mojo, the first two weekends of January respectively grossed $85.7M and $97M. Paramount’s second weekend of Mean Girls at 3,826 theaters is looking at $11M, a 62% decline, for what will be a ten-day of $49.3M.
Through ten days, new Mean Girls is pacing 17% ahead of 2004’s Mean Girls, which finaled at $86M. Amazon/MGM’s second frame of David Ayer’s Jason Statham movie, The Beekeeper, is second at 3,330 theaters with $8.3M, -50%, for a ten-day running total by EOD Sunday of $31M.
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