‘Mean Girls’ Leading Woeful Winter Weekend Without Wide Releases – Saturday Box Office Update

SATURDAY AM WRITETHRU: Refresh for chart and more analysis The fourth weekend of the year at the domestic box office is looking like $59M, -12% from last weekend’s $67.2M and -19% off from the same period a year ago.

Still this weekend’s total box office in a marketplace sans wide entries is not as low as 2023’s bottom of $51.8M for all movies (Sept. 22-24) and 2022’s floor of $35M (Jan. 28-30).

And there’s no winter storms to blame for this, rather this is the outcome of prolonged dual strikes, which greatly delayed the feature film pipeline.

Paramount’s Mean Girls currently has the upper hand over Amazon MGM Studios’ The Beekeeper, $6.7M to $6.4M. Beekeeper beat Mean Girls in daily grosses on Monday ($802K), Tuesday ($1.25M) and Thursday ($770K) this past week.

The girls in pink will see a 43% slide from Weekend 2 at 3,544 theaters, for a $60.2M running total. Friday came in at $1.88M, -43%. The Jason Statham action movie at 3,337 venues, clocked a third Friday of $1.8M, -26%, will be off from Weekend 2 by 25%, for a running total of $41.3M by Sunday.

The seventh weekend for Warner Bros.’ Wonka is in third with $5.8M at 3,014, -14%, for a running total of $195M. Friday is $1.35M.

Illumination/Universal’s Migration, the animated movie rivals bet against over the holidays, will be up to $101M in its domestic cume through Sunday at the end of Weekend 6. Friday is $1M at 2,962 theaters, for a $5M 3-day, -8%, in fourth place.

Fifth belongs to Sony’s sixth weekend of Anyone but You, the Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell romcom, with a 3-day of $4.65M, -14%, for a running cume by Sunday of $71M at 2,885 locations. That total zips past the other notable post-pandemic romantic comedy, Ticket to Paradise, starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, which finaled at $68.2M in U.S./Canada. Anyone‘s Friday is an estimated $1.5M, -14%.