The Beekeeper finally manages to swarm Mean Girls at the weekend box office

Also Godzilla Minus One becomes one of the most successful foreign-language movies in U.S. history

By Sam Barsanti  |  January 28, 2024 | 10:05pm
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The Beekeeper finally manages to swarm Mean Girls at the weekend box office
Jason Statham Photo: Gareth Cattermole

Congratulations, Beekeeper Hive: You’ve done it. Jason Statham’s pun-filled action romp has stolen the top spot at the U.S. box office away from the Mean Girls musical after three weeks, which is either an indication that America has Beekeeper fever or that things are getting kind of dire in America theaters here at the end of January (it’s the latter, since this is the worst weekend of the year for the box office). Beekeeper made $7.4 million and has a total of $42 million, while Mean Girls made $7.2 million and has a total of $60 million.

The rest of the top five is identical to last week, with Wonka, Migration, and Anyone But You all making between $4 million and $6 million. Wonka should break $200 million eventually, which we now remember saying last week, so let’s move on top the bottom half of the top 10. There are some stories there.

Poor Things leapt up from 10th place to sixth place thanks to the continuation of its widening rollout. It’s playing in 900 more theaters and made more than 40 percent more money from last week, bringing it up to a total of $24 million. American Fiction is doing something similar, going from 12th to seventh and making almost $3 million in its seventh week in theaters. Then we have Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, which is doing its thing (probably), followed by Godzilla Minus One, which has now taken the number three spot on the list of highest-grossing foreign-language film in U.S. box office history (with $55 million, it’s a hair behind Life Is Beautiful and a mile behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Finally, wrapping up the top 10 is The Boys In The Boat, which is still a ways behind Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World in terms of movies about boys in a boat.

Here’s the top 10 again, courtesy of Box Office Mojo.

  • The Beekeeper
  • Mean GIrls
  • Wonka
  • Migration
  • Anyone But You
  • Poor Things
  • American Fiction
  • Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
  • Godzilla Minus One
  • The Boys In The Boat

 
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