The Timothee Chalamet led reworking of the
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory story,
Wonka, makes its debut at the top of the US box office on its debut.
The movie takes a little over $39 Million on its debut which is higher that the $20.7 Million of the 2005 Tim Burton directed movie.
Prequel movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes stays at number 2 this weekend while last weeks top movie The Boy and the Heron falls to number 3 with a weekend gross of $5.1 Million.
US Box Office QuickView
- Number 1 - Wonka (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Wonka (@1)
- Longest run - The Marvels (6 weeks)
- Highest total gross - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes ($145,260,915)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Poor Things (48%)
- Total US top 15 this weekend - $75,817,031
- Also new this weekend
- Seventeen Tour Follow' to Japan: Live Viewing
- Check out the full US box office.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 15th - 17th December 2023
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It has a total gross of $39,005,800 after 1 weekend of release
- The movie remains at Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $5,822,054 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $145,260,915 after 5 weekends of release
- The movie is the 18th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 which took $254,481,457 at the box office after 5 weekends of release.
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $5,518,105 over the weekend, a 57% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $23,488,788 after 2 weekends of release
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $5,040,832 over the weekend, a 41% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $34,418,418 after 3 weekends of release
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $3,948,505 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $88,611,400 after 5 weekends of release
- The movie is a sequel to Trolls World Tour which took $3,682,379 at the box office after 5 weekends of release.
This weeks top 10 US Box Office films
- Wonka - $39,005,800
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - $5,822,054
- The Boy and the Heron - $5,518,105
- Godzilla Minus One - $5,040,832
- Trolls Band Together - $3,948,505
- Wish - $3,161,021
- Napoleon - $2,250,278
- Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé - $1,917,972
- Poor Things - $1,282,208
- The Shift - $1,052,239
See full chart
ABOUT:
Robert Hyde
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
