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Beyoncé was topped “queen of the field workplace” after her live performance film topped the field workplace in its opening weekend.
“Renaissance: A Movie by Beyoncé,” a documentary in regards to the artist’s record-breaking world tour, raked in $21 million since its Friday opening, in response to BoxOfficeMojo. It opened in roughly 2,500 theaters by an unique distribution cope with AMC Theatres.
“The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” positioned second, grossing $14.5 million and “Godzilla Minus One” debuted with an $11 million opening.
Notably, “Renaissance” grew to become the primary movie in twenty years to cross the $20 million benchmark for its opening weekend following Thanksgiving, a sometimes sluggish one. The 2003 launch of Tom Cruise’s “The Final Samurai” was the final to perform the feat.
“Renaissance” is the second live performance movie to dominate the field workplace this yr, with Taylor Swift releasing “Eras Tour” additionally completely by AMC, reasonably than a standard Hollywood distributor, successfully chopping out the intermediary and securing increased paydays for the artists and their teams.
Each movies are sparking some life within the field workplace, which has been dominated by flops in November together with “The Marvels” and “Want.”
Home theaters grossed about $553.6 million this November, a 12% decline from final yr and nonetheless greater than $400 million in need of pre-pandemic ranges, in response to knowledge from analysis agency Comscore. Between 2009 and 2019, Novembers have been a reliably profitable month and may very well be counted on to rake in almost a billion {dollars}, owing partly to the lengthy Thanksgiving weekend.
Different key components contributing to the disappointing field workplace included the SAG-AFTRA strike, which prevented actors from selling upcoming films, in addition to the anticipated sci-fi blockbuster “Dune: Half Two” that was faraway from the November slate and pushed again to a March 2024 launch date.
To date this yr, home theaters have grossed $8.26 billion, about $740 million shy of the $9 billion plus anticipated for the total yr.
–CNN’s Leah Asmelash and Eva Rothenberg contributed to this report.