"The Beekeeper" Narrowly Beats "Mean Girls" for #1 Spot

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The Beekeeper Looks to Sting Mean Girls during Woeful Weekend without Wide Releases
by Anthony D'Alessandro
January 28, 2024


Boring weekends always make for intense times at the box office, and this morning, Amazon MGM’s The Beekeeper is looking to steal Paramount’s Mean Girls‘ honey in a third weekend call of $7.4M to $7.3M between the two films.

Even though Warner Bros’ wide expansion of Barbie at 1,500 theaters in weekend 28 didn’t make much money at an estimated $218K (the studio didn’t report official figures), the eight Oscar nominated Greta Gerwig directed movie surged +10,792% over last weekend, which made only $2k.

Note: HBO subscribers can watch this movie at home on Max.




Apple Original Films’ Killers of the Flower Moon via Paramount went from 16 locations last weekend, where it made $5K, to 941 sites, where it made $220K, a +3,811% rise in weekend 15, which gets the Martin Scorsese film’s running stateside cume to $67.6M.

The movie is available to stream on Apple TV+.




Focus Features’ The Holdovers saw the third-biggest percent jump at +568%, with a 1,140 theater spike to 1,267 with $520K; current cume of $19.3M in weekend 14.

Impressive, considering the movie is playing on Peacock. The Alexander Payne directed, Paul Giamatti starring movie counts five Oscar noms.




NEON’s Anatomy of a Fall was +440% in weekend 16 at 380 theatres with $211,5K.

The running total for the five Oscar- nominated feature, which can also be watched in homes, is $4.1M.




Universal also had bragging rights with the +1,008 theater jump (to 1,262) on the 13 Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer, which was +284% in weekend 28 to $1M, and a running total of $328.1M.

Also impressive, considering the movie is available on digital/DVD, but not available on Peacock until Feb. 16. The Christopher Nolan directed-3 hour biopic drama counted $900K stateside in Imax for a total cume of $90M domestic for the large format exhibitor, $187M WW.

Globally, that’s No. 5 on the Imax all-time biggest title list.




A24’s Nazi concentration camp movie, Zone of Interest, after a 233 theater increase to 315 in weekend 7, posted $1.08M, +141%, for a running total of $3M.

The movie is playing exclusively in theaters.




Amazon MGM’s American Fiction was up 852 theaters to 1,702 in weekend 7 for a 3-day of $2.897M, +65%, for a running total by EOD of $11.8M.

The Cord Jefferson directorial debut counts five Oscar noms. American Fiction can only be seen at this time in cinemas.




Searchlight’s Poor Things, only available in theaters, swelled 45% in weekend eight to $3M after hitting its highest point of release of 2,300 theaters, an uptick of 900 locations. Running total is $24.7M.

While that’s 15% ahead of Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s previous Oscar darling, The Favourite, in weekend 8, it begs to be seen whether Poor Things ultimately beats that pic’s domestic final of $34.3M, as that movie went wide later in its theatrical run.

Poor Things has the second-most Oscar noms at 11 behind Oppenheimer. At the end of the weekend, it’s Poor Things that made the most money out of the Best Picture Oscar noms.




Netflix’s Maestro didn’t report grosses. The seven Oscar nominated, Bradley Cooper starring and directed Leonard Bernstein biopic is available to watch on the streamer.

No grosses were reported for A24’s Past Lives, which is available on DVD and digital.

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January 26-28, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimate

1. The Beekeeper $7,421,382 / $42,288,291
2. Mean Girls $7,299,505 / $60,805,000
3. Wonka $5,909,995 / $195,173,000
4. Migration $5,150,340 / $101,254,000
5. Anyone But You $4,800,462 / $71,196,000
6. Poor Things $3,048,000 / $24,792,797
7. American Fiction $2,896,728 / $11,843,226
8. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom $2,819,966 / $118,102,000
9. Godzilla Minus One $2,600,000 / $55,009,463
10. The Boys in the Boat $2,213,792 / $47,467,000