2024’s second-biggest opening: Godzilla x Kong takes the Easter weekend

04/02/24 • 13 min

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire debuted this Easter weekend, making for the second-biggest opening weekend for a title in 2024 after Dune: Part Two. We delve into all the Behind the Screens details of the audience, and how this latest instalment measures up against previous Monsterverse movies on this week’s episode.

Topics and times:

Catch us at CinemaCon next week - 0:16
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire box office overview - 1:31
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire audience analysis - 3:45
Comparing Godzilla x Kong with the Monsterverse - 7:03
Global box office roundup - 10:44
Next week - 11:42

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Box Office Overview:

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire debuted to $80M in the domestic market, and an additional $114M across 63 international territories for a global opening of $194M — the second-highest opening weekend result of the year, only behind Dune: Part Two.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire grossed $15.7M domestically for a drop of 65% into its second week, bringing its total domestically to $73M.
Dune: Part Two crossed a $250M total in the domestic market with $11M this weekend bringing the domestic total to $252M, and $626M worldwide.
Kung Fu Panda 4 grossed $10.2M domestically over the easter weekend, passing $150M domestically in total, as its global total approaches $350M.
Immaculate grossed 3.2M, a drop of 38%, bringing its current domestic total to just over $11M.

Topics and times:

Catch us at CinemaCon next week - 0:16
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire box office overview - 1:31
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire audience analysis - 3:45
Comparing Godzilla x Kong with the Monsterverse - 7:03
Global box office roundup - 10:44
Next week - 11:42

Find us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/vista-group-limited/, and follow @moviohq & @numeroboxoffice on Twitter

Box Office Overview:

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire debuted to $80M in the domestic market, and an additional $114M across 63 international territories for a global opening of $194M — the second-highest opening weekend result of the year, only behind Dune: Part Two.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire grossed $15.7M domestically for a drop of 65% into its second week, bringing its total domestically to $73M.
Dune: Part Two crossed a $250M total in the domestic market with $11M this weekend bringing the domestic total to $252M, and $626M worldwide.
Kung Fu Panda 4 grossed $10.2M domestically over the easter weekend, passing $150M domestically in total, as its global total approaches $350M.
Immaculate grossed 3.2M, a drop of 38%, bringing its current domestic total to just over $11M.

Previous Episode

Ghostbusters and Horror Double-Features

As Kung Fu Panda 4 debuts in China and the Ghostbusters hit the big screen domestically, it’s an exciting week for box office. We delve into the audience of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire to explore how the audiences for the franchise has evolved over its 40 years, and look into horror double-features with Immaculate and Last Night with the Devil here on Behind the Screens.

Topics and times:

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire box office overview - 1:31
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire audience analysis - 3:24
Multigenerational audience appeal - 6:22
Box office top 5 roundup - 8:57
Immaculate audience analysis - 10:06
Late Night with the Devil box office and audience - 13:00
Godzilla x Kong pre-sales - 16:08
Next week - 18:08

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Box Office Overview:

Kung Fu Panda 4 launched in another 13 international markets this weekend including China, taking $72M around the world, its global cumulative total nearly reaching $270M.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire topped the box office with $45.2M domestically and $16.4M internationally from 25 territories, for a global debut total of $61.6M.
Dune: Part Two grossed a further $48M this past week, and now sits at a global total of $575M.
Immaculate debuted to $5.3M at the domestic box office for 4th position this weekend.

Next Episode

The highlights of CinemaCon and Civil War

Fresh from CinemaCon, Matthew, Simon, and Ryan give us all the highlights and talk movie previews. With Civil War making A24’s highest-grossing opening this weekend, we tackle the box office and audience analysis with some surprising comparisons. Join us Behind the Screens for all the box office and more!

Topics and times:

CinemaCon roundup - 0:20
Our thoughts on CinemaCon previews - 2:50
Civil War box office overview - 5:15
Civil War audience analysis - 7:05
Global box office roundup - 10:42
Bob Marley: One Love re-release - 13:34
Next week - 15:41

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Box Office Overview:

Civil War made for A24’s highest-grossing opening this past weekend, with $25.7M from the domestic market and an additional $4.3M internationally for a total of $30M.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire dropped 50% grossing $15.5M domestically, with $49M globally.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire made nearly $6M domestically only dropping 36%, for $31.4M globally.
Kung Fu Panda 4 grossed $5.5M domestically, for a drop of only 30%.
Internationally, Detective Conan: Million-Dollar Pentagram opened to nearly $22M in Japan alone.