“Wonka” held onto the top spot at the domestic box office for the third straight weekend, with the Warner Bros. musical featuring Timothée Chalamet bringing in another $14.4 million in ticket sales. Meanwhile, “Night Swim” swam to $12 million in its domestic box office opening, good enough for a second-place finish behind Christmas holdover “Wonka.”
Produced by horror maestros Jason Blum and James Wan, “Night Swim” was the weekend’s only new wide release as the post-holiday doldrums begin. Domestic revenue was down a steep 18 percent from the same frame in 2023.
The Universal horror pic, playing in North American 3,250 theaters, came in slightly ahead of expectations despite scathing reviews and a C CinemaScore from audiences, although it didn’t come anywhere near to matching the $30.4 million opening of Universal and Blumhouse’s “M3GAN” on the same weekend a year ago.
The top 12 movies of them weekend are as follows:
| #TitleDistributor NameWeekend Total # of LocsLoc AvgCume Total% Change1WonkaWarner Bros.$14,430,0003,817$3,780$164,654,302-35.80%2Night SwimUniversal$12,000,0003,250$3,692$12,000,000 | 3Aquaman and the Lost KingdomWarner Bros.$10,610,0003,553$2,986$100,021,279-41.93%4MigrationUniversal$10,250,0003,712$2,761$77,820,135-39.75%5Anyone But YouSony$9,500,0003,055$3,110$43,713,6448.55%6Boys in the Boat, TheMGM$6,020,9912,687$2,241$33,897,610-28.33%7Color Purple, TheWarner Bros.$4,765,0003,218$1,481$54,621,433-59.40%8Iron Claw, TheA24$4,521,5552,392$1,890$24,336,609-2.76%9FerrariNeon Rated$2,505,0002,121$1,181$16,005,459-36.13%10Poor ThingsSearchlight$2,000,000750$2,667$14,227,242-11.66%11Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, TheLionsgate$1,835,0001,428$1,285$163,836,572-36.13%12Godzilla Minus OneEmick$1,725,0001,050$1,643$49,165,843-24.31% |
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