Gladiator IIcontinues to ascend the charts of 2024’s highest-grossing movies at the domestic box office. The long-awaited sequelreveals what happens to Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal)in the years after the events of the original movie.Gladiator IIhad its domestic debut on November 22, the same day asWicked. Even thoughWicked’s box office outperformedGladiator IIduring the opening weekend, the Ridley Scott-directed sequel has still done well at the box office.
As perThe Numbers,Gladiator IIis now the 14th highest-grossing movie at the domestic box office in 2024. At $146.6 million,Gladiator II’s domestic box office has surpassed Sony’sVenom: The Last Danceand Paramount’sA Quiet Place: Day Onein order to become one of the top 15 highest-grossing movies of the year. With Blake Lively’sIt Ends With Usonly narrowly ahead at $148.5 million,Gladiator IIis poised to soon become the 13th highest-earning movie of the year. Check out the top 10 performing movies at the 2024 box office below:
1
$652,980,194
2
$636,745,858
3
$361,704,965
4
$361,004,205
5
$339,185,056
6
$294,100,435
7
$282,144,358
8
$267,762,265
9
$196,350,016
10
$193,590,620
11
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
$193,573,217
12
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
$171,130,165
13
$148,518,266
14
$146,614,105
15
$142,971,580
What This Means For Gladiator II
Its Box Office Performance Has Been Overshadowed
Gladiator II’s box office performance has been largely overshadowed by the record-breaking numbers ofWickedandMoana 2, the latter of which released only five days afterGladiator II’s domestic debut.WickedandMoana 2’s box office numbers are impressive, with the two movies already the third and fifth highest-grossing domestic movies of 2024. However,Gladiator II’s most recent milestone is a reminder that it is also performing well.
Every Real Person In Gladiator 2 & What Happened To Them In Real Life
Gladiator II follows in the footsteps of the first Gladiator movie by featuring many characters based on or inspired by real historical figures.
Gladiator IIis all but guaranteed to surpassIt Ends With Usdomestically and is likely to end up earning more thanKingdom of the Planet of the Apesas well.Gladiator II’s endingsets up a third movie that will see Lucius trying to keep the dream of Rome alive and to prevent it from falling back into the hands of tyrants.Continued box office success will help makeGladiator IIIbecome a realityand deliver the story that will reveal what happens next to Lucius in this historical fiction version of Rome.
Our Take On Gladiator II’s Box Office
It Has Legs At The Box Office
IfGladiator IIhad released at a different point in 2024, and not at the same time asWickedandMoana 2, its box office numbers would likely be receiving more attention. All three movies deserve credit for2024’s record-breaking Thanksgiving box officeand all of them areproving to have legs at the box officeas well. The moreGladiator IImoves up the domestic charts, the more likelihood there is of seeingGladiator IIIhappen, and the hiatus between movies will hopefully be shorter than 24 years this time.
Gladiator II
Cast
Gladiator 2 is the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s award-winning film Gladiator from 2000. Scott returns to direct the sequel, with Paul Mescal staring as Lucius, alongside Denzel Washington and Joseph Quinn as the villain Emperor Geta. Gladiator 2 had been stuck in development hell for years before a script written by David Scarpa finally moved forward.
