Christmas Box Office Getting Richer With ‘Nosferatu’, ‘A Complete Unknown’ & More Joining ‘Sonic’ Charged Marketplace; 2024 Domestic Eyes $8.75B Final

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A splash of auteurish openings on Christmas Day with Focus Features’ Nosferatu, Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, A24’s naughty Babygirl and Rachel Morrison’s The Fire Inside is poised to send the Christmas week’s box office to a potential $280M tally, on par with last year’s holiday week which was boosted by Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Wonka, Migration and The Color Purple.

Christmas week 2021 holds the post Covid era record for the most made by movies with $292.4M during that time; a majority of that from Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Still, it’s interesting. Even though there isn’t a massive, all-oxygen sucking tentpole in the marketplace, the heavy supply of family titles in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Mufasa, Wicked and Moana 2 plus the new offerings are making for a lucrative season.

Comscore projects we’ll end 2024 at $8.75 billion, just -3% shy of 2023’s $9 billion tally. Nothing to complain about especially in a domestic box office year that was still rattled by the aftermath of the previous year strikes: We went from a domestic marketplace that was dogging 2023 by -20% before summer to just being a few points behind.