Weekend projections: Mean Girls hits $28 million on debut, The Beekeeper impressive in second

January 14, 2024

Mean Girls

Mean Girls will post a bright-and-breezy $28 million this weekend, according to Paramount’s Sunday-morning projection. That’s just a shade higher than the $24.4 million earned by the original Mean Girls back in 2004 (although quite a bit less on an inflation-adjusted basis). It’ll cruise to the top of the box office chart this weekend, with The Beekeeper coming in a very respectable second.

Here’s how the domestic numbers look as of Sunday morning (click on the image for the full chart of films reporting so far)…



While Mean Girls and The Beekeeper came in a little behind our Friday-morning predictions, the difference was minimal in the case of Mean Girls and marginal for The Beekeeper. There’s no sign of poor word of mouth for either film. The key measure for Beekeeper will be its international performance. Action movies tend to travel well, and if it can perform as well internationally as it has here in North America, a sequel or two will likely follow.

Returning films generally dipped more than the model expected this weekend, most likely due to the new competition, and also partly because of the extended MLK weekend.

Wonka remains the standout Holiday title, and will pass $500 million at the worldwide box office this weekend. The United Kingdom continues to be its best territory, with another $2.8 million there this weekend taking it to $71.1 million.

Anyone But You will be down just 29% this weekend. The model already has its strong legs baked in to its prediction, so it’s performing a little worse than the model expected. This is still another impressive performance for the romantic comedy though: it has now picked up $55 million in total domestically, and is inching closer to Ticket to Paradise’s $68.3 million (see a comparison between the two films here). If it hits that mark, it’ll be the highest-grossing romantic comedy since the pandemic.

- Studio weekend projections
- All-time top-grossing movies in North America
- All-time top-grossing movies worldwide
- Holiday-season musical comparisons

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