Mufasa & Sonic 3 Rule Christmas, Nosferatu Opens Strong - Charts with Dan!

I like the idea of doing the Road to Recovery chart for one more year and then for 2026 transitioning it to just current year vs prior 5 year average. Gives a good look at how a particular year fares against recent history.

[@danielchilton9056]

Definitely the best way to do it

[@kingofsnake2000]

I agree with this the road to recovery chart is the most interesting for me and defiantly one to keep and this seems a very logical way to do it

[@AverageJoe483]

I like that too. It’s crazy to see how much the box office has fallen off overall from even 10 years ago. Plus considering inflation is dramatically higher it’s even worse.

[@Hasmanian]

Current year vs average of the 5 years previous vs average of the 6 to 10 years previous might give a better picture. Allow the pandemic era to slide out of the picture, but still acknowledge the impact.

[@DanMurrellMovies]

Great suggestion!

[@zengamer21]

Mufasa was the "get these kids away from me or I'm going to lose my mind" movie of Christmas day.

[@OmegaRejectz]

Deserved for going to watch the movie 🤷‍♀️

[@echoecho57]

The Sonic lines are a nice touch. Blue for Sonic, red for Knuckles in 2 and black for Shadow in 3 6:54

[@wizardfromthewest]

I asked a coworker to go with me to watch Nosferatu since I didn't want to go alone but they told another coworker, then THEY invited a plus one each. Had a 7 person party and we dressed up all in our best Gothic attire. I had a blast I'm so glad it's a big win for Eggers

[@claytonkeating4570]

Thank you Dan for an awesome year of charts! One of my favorite parts of each week. You rule

[@ydejin]

Happy New Year Dan 🎉. Thanks for all your work!

[@CMK899]

I saw Nosferatu and A Complete Unknown this weekend. I enjoyed them both. There were a lot of people there to see Wicked. I think the sing-along showings encouraged people to go see it again. Great idea.

[@desertsuede4]

Love that Nosferatu and A Complete Unknown did this well, especially the former (more alt horror in multiplexes, please!)

[@musicmashups]

I didn't like A Complete Unknown at all but it's still a win for the specialty box office

[@carlosatausupa8429]

Im hope Nosferatu by Robert Eggers going to success Box Office Christmas. Justice for The Northman

[@TheMuz]

I'm curious why Universal is already putting Wicked on Digital tomorrow. The movie is doing amazing in theaters, would think the digital release will deter from the New Year's Day numbers

[@KrimsonKracker]

They probably want to boost Peacock. Either way, the theater experience is still it's own thing. Plus, the vast majority of people that were planning to watch in theaters already have.

[@greghowell9767]

Thank you for a great year, Dan! Appreciate your work so much!!

[@robpagenkopf5829]

Happy to see Sonic 3 doing well. I quite liked it. Looks to be the highest grossing one yet, which is great. I’m also glad Mufasa is going to end up not being a flop. Yeah, it’ll have a noticeable drop from its predecessor, but approximately $200 million domestic/$600 million worldwide final totals according to box office trackers is still decent and three times its budget. As far as these billion dollar follow ups go it’s the kind of grosses The Marvels, Aquaman 2, and Joker 2 could only dream of, and I enjoyed Mufasa much more than those three. I also want to say thank you, Dan. So many other KZbin channels would have taken the easy, ‘Mufasa BOMBS’ clickbait route last weekend, but you didn’t. You know how holiday season box office works and said to wait until Christmas legs kick in to truly see what its outlook was. As someone who likes tracking the box office thanks for being the reputable professional you are.

[@LinkMarioSamus]

Yeah the thumbnail for the Midnight's Edge video disgusted me with the photoshopped tears in Bob Iger's face. Yes Disney can go to heck, but come on.

[@chrisheimva4857]

@@LinkMarioSamus The irony of that thumbnail is that the people that tend to be most directly hurt by movies underperforming or bombing are the workers and artists (Ex. Lightyear). If anything studio execs (way more often than not) tend to be THE LEAST affected.

[@LinkMarioSamus]

@@chrisheimva4857 Very true, but Iger is a convenient face to scapegoat.

[@D3Z112]

Pretty much this. I still remember a time when Dan (when he was Charting with Dan) discussed his thoughts on the Captain Marvel box office myths surrounding the narratives of the film's performance and gave a great analysis in which this is why I tune in to his channel to this day. Speaking of clickbait channels, there is a reason why I would never pay any attention to them as all they care about is spreading lies and misinformation if something does not fit within their narrative and agenda making them less reputable even though their comments section are always gullible to believe in anything they say without questioning their context.

[@galacticspecter4364]

@@LinkMarioSamus Midnight's Edge is a joke. They used to make informative videos during all the controversy at Fox over the Fantastic Four movie but then they decided to pivot to culture war clickbait like so many other youtube channels.

[@peterlyon367]

With Sonic and Mufasa being so close, I think an interesting question is who is selling more tickets? Mufasa is in a lot more premimum screens. When the studios report a tie on Sunday, that means Sonic probably sold more overall tickets.

[@Hasmanian]

Or did Mufasa sell more discounted children's and senior's tickets?

[@peterlyon367]

@ Good point, I think this remains a real question

[@carloconopio6513]

Maybe they should also include show how many tickets sold per movie.

[@joshbarnes8123]

Well you know, the pandemic started in March of 2020, which means that the road to recovery chart will be exactly 5 years old. Maybe do that chart until your at the 5 year mark and produce a final 5 year chart to show the road to recovery from the last 5 years

[@sheltondmello8031]

That's actually insane. Where the fuck have these 5 years gone lol

[@TheBigTunaMunster]

In Portland all the Christmas day Nosferatu showing were packed, we had to go to a 10.30pm showing to get decent seats.

[@gueeds23]

Dan’s pronunciation of Vermiglio is going to be another Giancarlo Esposito

[@SylviusTheMad]

It certainly surprised me.

[@yourstruly9013]

22:25 oh my god *Mousehunt* 🤣 I *loved* that movie as a kid. Completely forgot about its existence

[@albericponcedeleon2696]

I was scrolling looking for anybody that had that same reaction. 😂 My brain momentarily broke when it showed up.

[@juliuswyatt8895]

Need a box office winners and losers of 2024

[@lydia1634]

Was finally able to see Wicked! My family doesn't usually go out to the movie theater, but I just had to take advantage of the free and available babysitting. So glad I got to see it in theaters! Even if the small town movie theater had a small rip or tear or something on the screen.

[@gyarb]

Happy New Year Dan! Big fan of not only your intelligence, wit, and integrity but also your tenacity. Thanks for being a great influence!

[@LewisGTurner]

I know there's been a lot of talk of 'Wicked' not doing well worldwide but it definitely has it's markets because it's on track to overtake 'Inside Out 2' to be the biggest film of the year here in the UK!

[@CrappyCar]

Thanks for a great year Dan, hope you can break 200k subs next year.

[@claytonhelme1735]

Thanks Dan, I appreciate your work and hope you have a good trip! Here's to a happy new year!!

[@charlafrederick1245]

Makes sense for Mufasa to do well around Christmas. Grandparents are not going to want to see Sonic 3. Lion King is very popular with older people, not a video game movie.

[@alitamaralva]

I agree... my dad is 75 and he wants to go see it

[@paradisecity0406able]

Was 'Nosferatu' able to *SCARE* the competition away? And was 'Sonic 3' able to *DASH* towards the #1 spot again, or did 'Mufasa' manage to *POUNCE* to the #1 spot? Find out on this week's episode of 'Charts with Dan', starting NOW!

[@SkolneyVikings]

Or did the Bob Dylan film electrify the box office?

[@daveclark8337]

Even though Wicked came out a week earlier, it's Defying Gravity and surfing in front Moana 2.

[@jasonraschen1109]

Thank you for the charts Dan. Interested to see what the Nelson ratings are next week. Going to try and catch up on your latest 2 videos. Happy New Year!!!

[@musicmashups]

So happy to see Nosferatu doing so well. Its my favorite film of 2024 and all the love from general audiences is extremely deserved

[@StarryEyed0590]

I wonder if the Sonic audience skews older than Mufasa. Front-loaded opening weekends and higher attendance during the weekends suggests to me a lot of older teens and 20-somethings compared to families

[@Hasmanian]

That makes sense. It's a pity there's no metric comparing matinees to later showings, as that would probably give some additional insight.

[@michaelnally2841]

And the fact we have about 3 generations worth of Sonic fans currently.

[@mbcestelle]

I have a minor suggestion. When you have changes in the numbers from the previous week, it would be nice if there was a visual mark of some kind (font color change, font size, highlight of the post, etc.) to help draw the eye to the change. Of course, this would only affect the KZbin views.

[@WMCheerman]

Great work Dan!

[@YouFightLikeACow]

Holy shit, Better Man got COMPLETELY buried.

[@SplatterInker]

Hardly a shock. It's about a British singer most Americans have never heard of. Whose heyday was about 25 years ago. And who was always a bit marmite even in the UK. As a chimp... Don't get me wrong. As a Brit I think it's amazing that it exists and would love to watch something that nutso. Somehow I can't imagine most of the American audience heard about it, cared, or thought it looked good.

[@boodlefightbunny]

So is it too presumptuous to say SONIC 3 is a lock for Best Picture at the Oscars? 🙋‍♀️

[@daveclark8337]

Wicked is still #4 and made $26 million over this Holiday weekend including $5.8 million yesterday ( Sunday) about the same as Nosferatu. Yet Universal is going to release it on Home Video tomorrow, instead of letting it keep racking up grosses at the box office. These studio heads are idiots.

[@wfchannel4673]

studios make all their money the first two weeks of release. the problem is that exhibitors make their money the following weeks, so this is penny-wise pound foolish for the studios in terms of keeping exhibitors in business, but makes sense from the studio perspective.

[@daveclark8337]

@@wfchannel4673 Studios do have deals set up so they make a greater percentage in the first 2 weeks and then it becomes more equitable for the theater owners after that period. But the studios still take their cut the whole time. My point was since covid, guys like Tom Cruise and Chris Nolan have had to tell the studios 'Hell no you're NOT putting my movie on home video after only a month! Leave it there until there the ticket sales slow down." Mostly because they get a % of the gross and they want people to see it on the big screen.

[@jp3813]

Perhaps b/c the movie isn't doing as well internationally?

[@MariaVosa]

Happy New Year Dan! Looking forward to next year's charts already!

[@SplatterInker]

We had Wallace and Gromit Christmas Day and it was wonderful. 💕

[@WizKlafka]

Thanks for a fantastic 2024 of box office news Dan! Happy New Years!

[@JDotWill]

I’m not surprised Nosferatu did so well. I went to see it Christmas Day & it was packed.

[@storywala88]

Road to recovery will still be interesting till 5 years after post covid. Cool video. Happy New Year to you Dan and everyone 🎇🍹🎉 and everyone 👊🏼😃

[@KeithFraser82]

Sonic and Mufasa - one's a hyperactive hedgehog, one's a regal by-the-book lion! Together they solve crimes!

[@AndySomething]

Have a happy new year Dan!🎉 Thank you for the time and effort you have put into making such awesome videos for us to watch all year. It's appreciated. Wish you health and happiness for 2025!

[@douglas4934]

Happy new year Dan, I hope you have a wonderful 2025. I don't comment here very often but your channel is very important and I love your videos. Thank you

[@spb1544]

Mufasa will easily continue to beat Sonic worldwide.

[@PopCultureguy]

Thank you Dan for awesome 2024 charting and general movie content in your channel good luck and have awesome journey to 2025.

[@jackson857]

Would love to see a comparison of the top 10 domestic of 2024 vs the top 10 domestic of 2023 on next weeks show.

[@TheLegendaryMovieCritic]

Both Nosferatu & A Complete Unknown broke records for Focus Features & Searchlight Studios!

[@mattramos5822]

Dan Murrell taught me more about numbers than the American school system.

[@devinbishop8710]

One of the best. Here's to the new year dan!

[@TVandManga]

Great video Dan!

[@antonyoliver7953]

Hey Dan, just noticed on the Top 5 2024 Horror Openings that all posters (except Smile 2) have a hand across a face! I know Alien isn't technically a hand, but ya know. Just found that interesting. Happy New Year, love the channel.

[@VivaciousOM]

Nice observation. 9:32

[@danskyder1564]

I love the road to recovery chart!

[@deanwright1609]

Thanks Dan

[@NinthShinigami]

Happy to see Sonic 3 holding well and still in the top spot 😁 awesome news for Nosferatu as well, very curious to see it just cause I loved The Northman, so I’m curious to see what Eggers did there with the iconic -SpongeBob- vampire

[@aidanlastname0187]

I see you everywhere it seems lol. Especially on Sean Chandlers channel, and I think on Letterboxd too

[@NinthShinigami]

@ what can I say, love the movie space and talking about it :) (and other spaces too, like anime and manga)

[@OrionInSpace]

Dan! Hope you had a great holidays, and thank you again for all the box office stuff that you did this year! Here’s to another year in 2025.🍻

[@jessrl8025]

Man, I can't pick between the 4 options for comic book movies I'm most excited for (not a member just yet, but I will be after the 1st so I'll get to vote). I will be seeing all 4 opening weekend

[@ValgardDerithos]

Happy new year away from home, Dan!

[@charvolth]

Going to see Nosferatu tonight at an RPX screening. I can also recommend 'Bloody Axe Wound'. Not playing on a lot of screens, but better than I expected. Be aware they make good use of practical effects and earned their 'R'.

[@MiguelPerez-r4b]

I love the Road to Recovery chart!!! Maybe retitle it but keep it please!

[@closeben]

I think it could be helpful at the end of the year to see a simple bar chart of the total box office for every year since 2015. I think that would provide a really clear picture of the overall trend, where the Road to Recovery is good for week-to-week comparisons.

[@josevlog945]

You know it's funny that trivia question was immediately Jurassic Park for me but of course the rerelease of Star Wars was what made it #1

[@ther3aper561]

I like the road to recovery chart, wouldn't mind seeing it as a "this year vs previous years" or just as a comparison between "this year vs last year" I'm also SUPER happy Taron is getting a big movie jn Carry On. Big props to him and Jason Bateman for that movie. It was very good and the first half was so tense, I couldn't believe a good portion of that movie was just them sitting and talking at each other

[@al.109]

9:01 I just realized that, up until Nosferatu, all Robert Eggers films had "The" in the title. Guess he took notes from both Seinfield and Gumball in terms of naming his films

[@boglimindustrialcomplex]

The proper title of the film actually is “The Nosferatu”

[@aramisaac4292]

@@boglimindustrialcomplex What am I? Some kind of Nosferatu?

[@vincenthalfprice9930]

Sean Parker would approve.

[@mark2graves-movies689]

To your point about families seeing Mufasa for Christmas: I don't think we would have seen Mufasa in theaters, but my mom wanted to take the grand kids to the movies, so we ended up seeing it.

[@VivaciousOM]

Happy New Year, Dan! Thank you for another year of wonderful reviews and videos!

[@matttrent922]

I have to say this is the most even and highest top 5 i have seen for a very long time. the 5 days chart with the top 6 all being over 20mil. I cant remember the last time that has happened.

[@aaronlawson8151]

I think that you should do the Road to Recovery chart for another year! This year's movie cycle was heavily affected by the strikes, so I think it would be nice to see how next year's box office looks compared to the post-pandemic average and the pre-pandemic average. That chart is also one of my favorites that you do, so I'm a little biased lol.

[@lorrrdy]

Dan, try to watch "I'm Still Here" when you're in LA, I think it opens next week. It's up for Oscar nominations in the international film e Best Actress categories. Fernanda Torres is wonderful in it

[@DanMurrellMovies]

I’ve seen it, she’s great!

[@ricebrown1]

Travelling to see friends for the holidays? Now that's soldiering.

[@everlastingpass1on]

Dan got me with that question, I too thought it was Jurassic Park.

[@noahsryan]

My family chose to see Sonic 3 on Christmas this year !

[@garyb9167]

Maybe replace it with a bar graph of week to week box office totals every week with possibly a picture of teh #1 movie of that week. At the top of the chart, a running totals of the box office for the year.

[@AllInTheGame01]

Good to see both The Fire Inside written by Barry Jenkins open in the Top 10 & his Mufasa movie rally a little. S/O Lupita Nyong'o who's had a good 2024 with The Wild Robot ($324m) & A Quiet Place: Day One ($262m) which did well critically & financially (grossed 4 times their production budgets). Twisters, Wicked & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice have all done incredibly well domestically but have struggled outside North America where they've made just 28-35% of their total box office which is definitely not the norm for Hollywood Blockbusters! Carry-On with its crazy 97.1m views so far should enter Netflix's All-Time Top 10 Most Viewed Movies List over the next 2-3wks!

[@benjaminjhobbs]

Before retiring or changing the Road to Recovery chart, I'd love it if you broke each year's data to it's own line graph. I remember you and Roth discussing a dismal summer box office way back in 2018 or so. I wonder if there is something yet to glean from year over year analysis, even before the world closed.

[@MysteryMii]

I feel like Sonic not really having the best Christmas Day despite the positive response and the opening weekend it had followed by the rebound afterwards suggests to me that a lot of people who were interested in seeing Sonic but not necessarily die-hard fans were more or less planning around the holiday and might be a sign that the post-holiday legs may end up disappointing everyone in much the same manner the Thanksgiving releases did last month after that record-breaking weekend.

[@gsarngad]

I thought Titanic replaced Star Wars at number 1 because I forgot or never knew that Jurassic Park briefly outearned Star Wars.

[@kelwinkwel]

Dan da Man always has a plan 🎄🎄🎄🤑👍

[@chrisheimva4857]

I saw Nosferatu the other day and was shocked at how packed the theater was. I figured the Christmas release was an attempt at counter-programming and I am glad it succeeded!

[@WhatsYourGhostStory]

It'll be interesting to see the year-end market share between studios and maybe how that's changed since 2023. Also, it'd be a lot of work, but interesting to look at the most profitable films versus biggest financial losers of the year (top 10? Top 5 of each?). Do certain studios appear on each lists more than the others & what does that say about the particular studio - are they good or bad at understanding their audience.

[@SodaPopCinemaReviews]

are you gunnna do a segment about how each studio did in 2024? i would love to see that!

[@nicolasmoyano_]

Adding Nosferatu to my watchlist

[@seanyhundos]

What's the area under the curve for each of the different time periods in the road to recovery plot?

[@alex-vr7zw]

Hi Dan, when Venom 3 finally leaves theaters, can you please compare the Venom trilogy box office to other superhero trilogies (both Spider-man, Iron Man, Thor, Cap America, GotG, Ant Man, both X-Men, etc). Of course unadjusted and adjusted.

[@klimmr]

21:17 Despicable Me 4 will join Multiverse of Madness and Oppenheimer in the "Ooh, so close" 950 million dollar club.

[@badgerhuan]

Extremely giddy over the Taiwanese poster for Sonic 3 being used in the international chart and worldwide chart. 😆

[@dannyp3333]

Road to recovery is one of my favorite charts I feel like we need to do it for atleast 2025 before retirement

[@torchwood00]

Lets Tell Mufasa I Mean Dan Happy New Year

[@T-M-N-T]

I love the Jim Carrey movie so much 🫶🏼😁

[@TheDilettante]

For the franchise tracker, if you tracked by gross / (budget + marketing), you can better compare across movies (and highlight performance of early entries with smaller budgets) without needing to adjust for inflation. Getting the marketing budget would be tricky but maybe you wouldn't need to include it

[@rayanvij3457]

Keep the Road to Recovery chart for another year. If you do, I’d suggest not lumping 2024’s box office with 2021-2023. For 2025, it would be great to have one line for 2015-2019, one line for 2021-2023, one line for 2024, and the dotted line for 2025. Comparing 2024 to 2025 is something I’d really like to see. Looking at this week’s chart, it shows that some weeks we were above the 2021-2023 average but below the 2015-2019 average, other weeks were equal to the 2021-2023 average, and some weeks were above or below both. I’d be interested to know if next year the lowest box office week stays above the 2021-2023 average. Not equal to the 21-23 average on the low end like week 6 but above it on the low end like week 11 or 30. For 2026, you could consider doing what another commenter suggested: comparing the current year to the prior 5-year average.

[@austinrodriguez4272]

Happy to see noferatu do good, i remember Aster got a big budget for beau and it was lame. Robert pulled it off perfectly

[@JDotWill]

The Fire Inside had almost no marketing, I’m pleasantly surprised it cracked the Top 10.

[@geekhomeworld4248]

Question. Do your numbers for Wicked reflect the sing-a-long release? Are both versions of Eicked counted together? I assume yes. Wicked hits streaming this week so will it slow down?

[@ChrisMeadows92]

Please keep Road to Recovery beyond 2025. It's low-key one of my favorite parts of the show. I think there's a ten-year pandemic chart that would still be worth having on the show.

[@tjtreviews]

12:09 this is my favorite chart of the show. Please, please, please at least keep the averages from the 2020s to compare to the weekly numbers going forward 🙏

[@michaelholbrook9645]

Sonic 3 had such a small dropoff in weekend 2 from that giant opening, that it's probably going to stay on top through the five day New Years holiday weekend. Weekend 1- $62 million. Weekend 2- $59.9. Weekend 3- $57-$61 million?

[@jonathanradut2595]

Dan, for the road to recovery graph, you might want to just compare the year before in future years. That way we can compare the current year to the last year. Just an idea.

[@lougait4362]

Dan, the one factor your chart about theaters lost is missing is the remaining theaters scarce showings of things like Kraven. When I bought my Nosferatu ticket this past weekend, I looked at Kraven options out of curiosity, and they only had 11pm options at the remaining theaters. So it’s almost like it doesn’t exist

[@VivaciousOM]

True where I live, too.

[@BreinGames]

How are weekend numbers calculated for movies not in thier opening weekend? On a normal 3 day weekend. Do they count the entire week and add that to the weekend numbers? Or do they only count the three day weekend? Again, not talking opening weekends.

[@studynot757]

I went to Nosferatu with 4 family members. 2 of my Brothers-in-law HATED it… I loved it, so 100 truth to Eggers being a divisive filmmaker

[@abbasmomin]

Hi Dan, always wanted to ask you what equipment do you travel with when you do the videos on the road. Considering different lighting/sound proofing situation in different rooms it would be interesting to know. Please answer it whenever you do the next Q&A video. Thanks. Keep up the great work.

[@DanMurrellMovies]

I shoot on my iPhone and use the same microphone I use in the studio. No lighting gear, just improvise with what’s available

[@abbasmomin]

@@DanMurrellMovies Woah! I had a way more elaborate set up in my mind. Haha. Thanks so much for the reply.

[@jpgr8937]

Sonic 3 NUMBER 1!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@richmlvcable]

I'm really mad at myself for being a whole 42 mins late for Charts With Dan 😂