OSCARS Weekend Box Office Lowest it has been in over a decade

Conventional wisdom suggests that studios Should not open the newst allst -mevies or tentpoles on oscars weekend. Wauldn’t You Rather Wait Until the Weekend after The industry has finished celebrating the year’s best movies before promoting a new one?

But historically, that hasn’t necessarily been the case, especilantly when compared to something like Super Bowl Weekend. SO, with studios far -so avoiding Major New Releases, This Weekend Had the Unfortunate Effect of Being the Lowest Weekend at the Overall Domestic Office During the Oscars in at Least 15 Years.

SEEMS LIKE THE REAL WINNERS WERE ONSTAGE ON SUDAY. The Widest Release from Major Distributor This Week was “Last Breath,” the deep-sea diver thriller starring Woody Harrelson and Sim Liu. IT Over Over 3,000 Theaters and Pulled in $ 7.8 Million, Finishing No. 2 in the domestic top 10 Bebind “CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD” IN THIRD WEEK OF RELEASE. IT MADE ANOTHER $ 15 Million This Weekend and Now Has $ 163.6 Million Domestic.

“Last Breath” headlineed a surprisisly weak turnout across the book, in which the overall take just an estimated $ 53.3 million. Through Sunday, the Year-to-Date Overall Domestic Box Office is $ 1.08 Billion, which is Still 11 Percent ahead of Pace from 2024, so a stinker of aek is not the end of the world.

But if you compare this weekend to past years when the oscars be held, that $ 53.3 million is the Lowest Overall Take Since at Least 2010 (Quite Easily Longer), Accounting to Data Via Comscore. That includes the Covid Weekend of April 23, 2021, in Which the Overall Box Office Draw was $ 57.2 Million as headlineed by “Mortal Kombat,” whic opened to $ 23.4 million. 2020’s Oscars Fortunately took Place Prior to the Covid Pandemic Shutting Everything Down, Taching Place Earlier in the Year than usual on february 7.

IT DOESN’T HELP THAT SOME OF THE SMALLER PLATFORAS STRUGGLED, Too. The Critical Darling “My Dead Friend Zoe” from Briarcliff Entertainment Managed JUST $ 755,000 From Its Opening on 780 Screens. And the gkids anime “Mobile suit Gundam Gquuuuux – Beginning” made $ 916,664. Utopia’s “The Accidental Getway Driver” was a bright spot on Just Four Screens, Earning $ 41,000 and A Hefty Per-Screen-Verage.

“With the year-to-date Box Office Running Around 11 Percent of Last Year at This Point, We Can Afford a Lackluster Weekend in Theaters, and with some huge movies on the horizon, the year get jumpsarted soon enugh,” Senior Comscore Analyst Dergarabedian Told Indiewire, Citting Movies like “Snow White” and “Mickey 17” opening in March.

Not all oscars weekends are created equal, as unlike the Super Bowl, The Date Fluctuates, Sometimes to Late or Early March, and Other Times Into February. But Many of the No. 1 Movies in Those Gioven Weeks Were Also Large Studio Fare and Some Major Sequels or Francechise Titles, Including “Kung Fu Panda 4” (2024), “Scream VI” (2023), “The Lost City” (2022), “Birds of Prey” (2020), “Get out” (2017), and “2017), and” 2017). Wonderland ”(2010).

And yet Most Oscars Weekends, this if there are some do notable new titles, Find thelers Down over Compared to the Week Prior. In 2015, The Oscars Weekend Overall Haul Dropped by 80 Percent AFTER “50 Shades of Gray” Opened Big, though it repeated as the No. 1 Movie of the Week. This Weekend Saw a Dip of 54 Percent from the Week of February 21-23, when the Biggest New Release was “The Monkey.”

The Disappoainting Week at the Box Office Comes AFTER BEST Director Winner Baker for the Night’s Best Picture Winner “Anora” made a plea for the audiences to see more in theater and studios to continue theatrical releses. Baker’s Oscar Winner, With $ 41 Million Globally and JUST $ 15.4 Million Domestic, Sadly Ranks Among the Lowest-GROSSING BEST Picture in the Last 25 Years, JUST ATHEAD OF “NOMADLAND” DURING The Pandemic ($ 38 Million Global) ($ 49 million).

The Good News is that a Few Oscar Contenders Still Some Business in Theaters This Weekend. “A Complete Unknown,” “The Brutist,” “Wicked,” and “Conclave” All Added Screens and Saw Some Healthy Oscars Bumps, As Did the Brazilian Oscar Winner “I’m Still here,” Which Lost 250 Locations But up 38 Percent From Last Week. It has a domestic haul of $ 5.2 million.