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Box Office Report: Jammin' With the Spiders

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | February 19, 2024 |

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | February 19, 2024 |


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The battle for number one this past weekend was between a boring movie and a baffling one, a biopic and a superhero movie (although I feel like I should put the latter in heavy quotes because who knows what’s actually going on there.) The standard logic for a match-up like this would be to bet that the action franchise fare does better because it’s reaching a bigger audience. That makes total sense. But this is Madame Web, and it exists in a world of zero sense. Up is down, red is blue, and Dakota Johnson has run out of f*cks.

Bob Marley: One Love by far outearned Madame Web, even if its own reviews weren’t much better. The biopic grossed $27.7 million in 3,539 theatres, which is perfectly solid business, especially in February. I imagine Paramount had hopes for this being an awards contender. And then they saw it.

But hey, at least it didn’t get ambushed by killer spiders in the Amazon, or whatever that film is about. Madame Web, a future choice for How Did This Get Made? and surely the subject of an inevitable Vanity Fair think-piece, was never going to do well. Come on, everyone knew that. Still, that didn’t make its $15.15 million opening gross from 4,013 theatres sting any less. Who asked for this? Anyone?

The next three episodes of season four of The Chosen were given a theatrical run and earned $3.443 million from 2,228 theatres, landing it at number five. At number ten is Land of Bad, a Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth action movie that I’m stunned doesn’t star Liam Neeson. It grossed $1.8 million from 1,120 cinemas. Did anyone know this movie was a thing?

The 2024 Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films were compiled for a cinematic run, which earned $765,000 from 375 locations. We respect filmgoers who make the effort to see all of the nominees.

In limited news, God & Country, a documentary about the implications of Christian nationalism in America, made $40,115 from 85 locations, while an independent mystery called Altered Reality grossed $17,200 from 112 cinemas.

This coming week sees the release of Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls, true-life drama Ordinary Angels, and the anime movie Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Hashira Training.

You can check out the rest of the weekend box office here.