J anuary is a historically slow month at the box office. Aside from awards season movies expanding into wider release, there usually aren't too many big films to draw sizable crow

Lionsgate is hoping to put a poor 2024 box office behind them starting with the release of “Den of Thieves: Pantera,” which is opening to a solid $15 million from 3,008 locations and the studio’s first No. 1 since “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” in November 2023.

Continuing a years-long trend, the overall weekend haul is down 23 percent from the same weekend last year, according to IndieWire. However, thanks to the longevity of these big box office hits—Mufasa,