Gladiator II continues to ascend the charts of 2024’s highest-grossing movies at the domestic box office. The long-awaited sequel reveals what happens to Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal) in the years after the events of the original movie. Gladiator II had its domestic debut on November 22, the same day as Wicked. Even though Wicked‘s box office outperformed Gladiator II during the opening weekend, the Ridley Scott-directed sequel has still done well at the box office.

As per The Numbers, Gladiator II is 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’s Venom: The Last Dance and Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One in order to become one of the top 15 highest-grossing movies of the year. With Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us only narrowly ahead at $148.5 million, Gladiator II is 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:

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 of Wicked and Moana 2, the latter of which released only five days after Gladiator II‘s domestic debut. Wicked and Moana 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.

Gladiator II is all but guaranteed to surpass It Ends With Us domestically and is likely to end up earning more than Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as well. Gladiator II‘s ending sets 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 make Gladiator III become a reality and 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

If Gladiator II had released at a different point in 2024, and not at the same time as Wicked and Moana 2, its box office numbers would likely be receiving more attention. All three movies deserve credit for 2024’s record-breaking Thanksgiving box office and all of them are proving to have legs at the box office as well. The more Gladiator II moves up the domestic charts, the more likelihood there is of seeing Gladiator III happen, and the hiatus between movies will hopefully be shorter than 24 years this time.

Source: The Numbers

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Gladiator II

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.

Release Date

November 22, 2024

Runtime

148 minutes

Cast

Paul Mescal
, Pedro Pascal
, Denzel Washington
, Connie Nielsen
, Joseph Quinn
, Fred Hechinger
, Derek Jacobi
, May Calamawy
, Peter Mensah
, Matt Lucas
, Alexander Karim
, Tim McInnerny
, Lee Charles
, Chidi Ajufo
, Alfie Tempest
, Riana Duce
, Chi Lewis Parry
, Paul Candelent
, Hadrian Howard
, Alexander Simkin
, Mikhail Basmadjian
, Matthew Charlery-Smith
, Maxime Durand
, Lior Raz

Writers

David Scarpa
, Peter Craig
, David Franzoni

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