WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 10, 2024
A film's gross for the last seven days, followed by its total worldwide gross. I begin with data from
Comscore and then pull from every other source available.
1. Venom: The Last Dance–$77m / $394m worldwide total
2. Red One–$27m worldwide debut
3. The Wild Robot–$23m / $292m ww
4. Singham Again–$19m / $41m ww
5. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3–$19m / $39m ww
6. Heretic–$16m ww debut
7. Smile 2–$14m / $124m ww
8. Cesium Fallout–$12m / $25m ww
9. Paddington in Peru–$12m ww debut
10. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever–$11m ww debut
11. The Untold Story–$11m ww debut
12. Amaran–$9m / $24m ww
13. Conclave–$7m / $22m ww
14. Anora–$6m / $12m ww
15. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice–$5m / $450m ww
16. Here–$5m / $10m ww
17. The Substance–$4m / $47m ww
18. The Young Couple Apartment–$3.5m / $7m ww
19. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix–$3m / $945m ww
20. Joker: Folie à Deux–$3m / $205m ww
21. Terrifier 3–$3m / $78m ww
22. Road to Ninja: Naruto The Movie–$3m / $21m
23. We Live In Time–$2m / $24m ww
24. Small Things Like These–$2m ww debut
25. Hear Me: Our Summer–$2m ww debut
26. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire–$1m / $902m ww
27. It Ends With Us–$1m / $349m ww
28. Transformers One–$1m / $129m ww
29. The Forge–$1m / $40m ww
30. The Apprentice -- $1m / $11 ww
31. Look Back–$1m / $7m ww
32. Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom–$1m / $7m ww
33. Amazon Bullseye–$1m / $3m ww
34. Absolution–$1m / $2m ww
35. Elevation–$1m ww debut
36. Leon–$1m ww
37. 1984–$1m ww debut
38. I'm Still Here–$1m ww debut
Bold: movies that have or likely will triple their reported budgets. That's my standard for a movie being a box office hit from theatrical alone. Many films will be profitable for a studio even if they don't triple their reported budget, but it's a good marker to indicate a big hit.
ANALYSIS
Venom: The Last Dance is still living it up worldwide. This week it makes $77m and passes the $400m mark worldwide. The competition is about to get fierce, so it's probably going to fall hard now. But since Venom made $856m and Venom 2 made $507m, seeing the third in a poorly reviewed, unexpectedly successful franchise probably end up close to $500m as well is a big win. Plus the price is right at $120m though presumably Tom Hardy is reaping the rewards. Writer-director Kelly Marcel delivered the goods commercially.
It's weird to think of a Christmas action flick franchise. But that's the idea behind Red One starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans. I mean, you might as well zig when others zag since people wanting a holiday action film can't watch Die Hard all the time. This is clearly off to a very poor start. given its massive budget. Someone will start yelling about the dangers of launching a new franchise with no big IP, but where else are original films supposed to come from?
Meanwhile, The Wild Robot can expect one or two sequels. They've got that many books at least, to build on.
China and Korea remained slumbering but India had a good week. All three films of the big films that launched during Diwali enjoyed strong holds. Unfortunately, Singham Again is so expensive at $42mb, it's unlikely to be a hit. But the Tamil actioner Amaran is already a winner and another good week will make the Hindi language supernatural comedy Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 a winner as well.
Hugh Grant is having fun (as he has for years, to those paying attention), classing up the horror flick Heretic and popping up with an uncredited cameo in Paddington in Peru. Unfortunately, the perfection of Paddington 2–as expected–was not matched with Paddington in Peru. That shouldn't stop this threequel from being a hit, but since I don't know the budget let's wait to see how it shapes up first. Match or exceed the second and it'll be a safe bet as having succeeded.
I imagine the box office performance of Here starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wrights gives studio execs nightmares. Two notable stars, a very commercial director, crowd-pleasing sentimentality and yet people just ran in the opposite direction. You never know, but sometimes the audience does, instinctively.
Here's a reminder about the annual box office. Studios are releasing about 25% fewer movies in 2024 than they did during the 2016-2019 pre-COVID era. That means we can reasonably expect the annual North American box office to reach about 25% less than that era's average box office. So look for about $8.3b for the year and call that a return to business as usual. Currently, North American box office is at $6.3b, with Thanksgiving and Christmas to go. Pump up the releases of all types of movies in 2025 and we have every reason to expect box office back in $10b-$11b territory.
NOTES
mb = a film's budget in millions of US dollars; ww = worldwide
1. Venom: The Last Dance–$120m reported budget, so even if it collapses quickly, this one will be a winner. With Venom 1 hitting $850m and Venom 2 at just $500m, this is an old school franchise where each new entry seeing less and less interest. They were right to call it a day after #3, clearly.
2. Red One–Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans action/Xmas comedy. A budget reportedly up to $250mb.
3. The Wild Robot–$80mb. Ha! Based on prior films from DreamWorks Animation I guessed this film's budget was around $80mb. And Wikipedia now says its roughly $78mb. I rounded up $2m so I could be right on the dot (plus, the math is easier when tripling).
4. Singham Again–Indian/Hindi action film w a $42mb. Fifth in Cop Universe franchise. Last film made $32m. This budget is five times bigger than Singham Return's $8mb.
5. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3–Indian/Hindi supernatural comedy about a fake ghostbuster. The budget is $18mb. Part 2 made $32m ww total so this needs to do almost twice as much to be a hit from box office alone.
6. Heretic–reported $10mb horror flick starring Hugh Grant as a gent more than willing to invite two Mormons into his home to debate religious beliefs.
7. Smile 2–a $28mb, which is a reasonable jump over the $17mb of the original Smile. That film grossed $217m worldwide. This won't get near that, but it doesn't need to do so.
8. Cesium Fallout–Hong Kong disaster flick starring Andy Lau. A radioactive leak threatens the island.
9. Paddington in Peru–$50mb? I'm just guessing. (That's sort of midpoint between the original and Paddington 2.) Sadly, three times is not the charm for this once-perfect franchise.
10. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever–$10mb for this holiday faith-based film based on the gentle 1972 novel. It's a more religiousy A Christmas Story.
11. The Untold Story–Chinese romance about lovers separated by death. A literal translation of the Chinese title would be The Unknown Story.
12. Amaran–Indian/Tamil action film. The budget is anything from $15mb to $24mb which is a huge range but I'll err on the side of caution. One of three big films that opened during Diwali festival.
13. Conclave–a reported $20mb for this Vatican thriller means they're likely to have a hit right off the bat. But I don't want to jump the gun on a film at $22m and needing $60m for me to bless it as a theatrical winner. In any case, it's sure to be profitable and a good addition to someone's library. But is it really an Oscar hopeful? I have my doubts but it's been a weak year....
14. Anora–no budget for Sean Baker's latest. The total is for several weeks in limited release, of course. But it hit the Top 10 in North America with $886k and another $100k plus in the UK so I'm calling it as $1m ww this week. Small movies can be difficult for me to track, but this genuine Oscar hopeful will one imagines become Baker's top-grosser to date when all is said and done.
15. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice–a reported $100mb and good audience response means this is a winner right off the bat. Hardly a slam dunk, by the way. The original came out almost 35 years ago and only grossed $78m worldwide. So the sequel cost more than the entire first film's worldwide gross! That's not a recipe for success, normally. But the original only cost $15mb to make and everyone knew it enjoyed a long afterlife, thanks to tv reruns, Halloween, the Broadway musical and so on. Still, gamble it was and the gamble paid off.
16. Here–a reported $50mb? My foot! Robert Zemeckis. Tom Hanks. Robin Wright. That's $50m right there, practically! Still, even if it did cost $50m and they all took scale for a big backend, this still doesn't look to be profitable. But maybe they'll love it overseas! That's why you bring in stars like Tom Hanks. Though I imagine few will cross the uncanny valley.
17. The Substance–$18mb reported for the Demi Moore body horror comeback.
18. The Young Couple Apartment–Chinese film, perhaps a remake of 1987 Chinese film about lives of six young couples all living in same apartment building.
19. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix–the gang is back in action, at least in China where all eight Potter movies are being reissued, one a week. The later films seem to be grossing around $5m, so this was hardly worth the bother, unfortunately. Before hitting China, the final films grossed the folllowing: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix now at $942m; Half Blood Prince at $934m; Deathly Hallows I at $977m; Deathly Hallows II at $1.342b.
20. Joker: Folie à Deux–a reported $190mb. This won't come close to $600m worldwide, so I'm afraid it's a flop. I think I announced in advance it would do very, very poorly. But I would never have guessed it would struggle to pass $200m ww.
21. Terrifier 3 -- $23m ww debut on a $2mb! Success, thy name is cheap horror films.
22. Road to Ninja: Naruto The Movie– 2012 Japanese anime reissued in China. It was at $18m worldwide before its reissue in China in 2024.
23. We Live In Time–Andrew Garfield/Florence Pugh drama about a decades-spanning romance. Looks like another sleeper success for director John Crowley a la Brooklyn.
24. Small Things Like These–low budget Cillian Murphy drama about worker faced with knowledge of nuns treating young women abusively. Backed by Ben Affleck/Matt Damon production company.
29. The Forge–this faith-based film did better in its second week? Success! Reported $5mb.
30. The Apprentice -- with a $16mb, you can spin this either way politically. Liberals can say people didn't want to see the film because they're sick and tired of Trump. So he'll lose. Right wingers can say people didn't want to see a film that criticized in any way their beloved ruler. So he'll win. Both side-ism!
31. Look Back–Chinese animated film about two girls who bond over their love of manga and work on one together.
32. Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom–Japanese anime based on "light novel" about player trapped in video game when the online, multiplayer role-playing game is shut down and he is seemingly transported to the world of the game in the form of his avatar.
33. Amazon Bullseye–Korean sports comedy w a one-time archery medalist recruiting Amazon people w amazing archery skills and brings them back to Korea. Hilarity ensues.
NOTE: L'Amour Ouf– aka Beating Hearts. A reported $39mb. Off the charts. See Analysis. Translates as literally "Love, Phew" but in English they're calling it Beating Hearts. A Belgian drama about teen lovers torn apart by gang violence. In competition at Cannes, but widely panned as the worst of the bunch. But in France and Belgium, it had a sensational hold, grossing $11m two weeks in a row so maybe this will pay off.
THE CHART AND HOW IT IS COMPILED
This column is a week by week tracking of box office around the world. It is compiled by pulling from every possible source: ComScore, Box Office Mojo, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, charts for countries like China and India and South Korea, individual stories in trade or general interest newspapers, Wikipedia and anyone else discussing box office.
ComScore Weekly Global Box Office Chart
The weekly charts contain the total gross for every movie in theaters around the world during the last seven days. If a movie opens on a Thursday, we include all the box office from Thursday through Sunday. If it opens on a Tuesday night, we cover all six days. If it opens on a Sunday (as some movies do in India or wherever, depending on holidays), then we include the box office for that one day. If a movie was released before the current week, we include the box office for all seven days. Why ignore the box office from Monday through Thursday, as most charts do when tallying the latest weekend and focusing on new releases?
How do we arrive at this number? We take the total worldwide box office we have for a movie, subtract from it the previous week's total worldwide box office...and that's how much it made during the past seven days. Naturally, territories and movies sometimes fall through the cracks but we are as up to date as we can be, given our dependence on other outlets for the basic info.
First, I list box office on every film we can from around the world. Any movie grossing at least US $1 million will be on here if we get info on it. Then I give some thoughts on the box office overall and individual films. That's followed by notes where I give info on every movie, with a focus on films not from Hollywood. So Despicable Me 4 you know. But a small Korean comedy or French drama? That I'll identify for you as best I can.
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