In retrospect it was probably a bad idea to make a movie called Labor Day (remember that 2013 Kate Winslet misfire?) since Labor Day weekend is one of those rare holidays where people mostly avoid the movies. Essentially it's the last "outdoor" weekend, and it's no longer hot enough to pine away for air conditioned storytelling. At any rate here is the quickie chart for the weekend. Were you an iconoclast who did go to the movies this weekend or were you thwarted by Hollywood's lack of desire to program anything between franchise blockbusters. Seriously this year feels like they're not even trying -- thank god awards season might rescue us...
| Weekend Box Office Estimates August 30th- September 1st Estimates 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| W I D E |
PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES |
 Good Boys |
 Brittany Runs a Marathon |
| 1 Angel Has Fallen $11.5 (cum. $40.6) |
1 🔺 Tod@s Caen $1 on 371 screens *new* |
| 2 Good Boys $9.1 (cum. $56.1) REVIEW ★ |
2 🔺 After the Wedding $445k on 428 screens (cum. $862k) REVIEW |
| 3 The Lion King $6.7 (cum. $520.9) REVIEW |
3 🔺 Brittany Runs a Marathon $414k on 49 screens (cum. $637k) |
| 4 Hobbs & Shaw $6.2 ($157) REVIEW ★ |
4 Mission Mangal $370k on 151 screens (cum. $3.3) |
| 5 Overcomer $5.7 (cum. $17.2) |
5 🔺 Luce $277k on 235 screens (cum. $1.2) REVIEW ★ |
| 6 Ready or Not $5.6 (cum. $20) REVIEW ★ |
6 🔺 Killerman $150k on 320 screens *new* |
| 7 Scary Stories... $5 (cum. $57.6) |
7 🔺 Maiden [DOC] $134k on 180 screens (cum. $2.7) REVIEW ★ |
| 8 Spider-Man Far From Home $4.2 (cum. $384.7) REVIEW |
8 🔺 Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins [DOC] $93k on 18 screens *new* |
| 9 Dora and the Lost City... $4.1 (cum. $49.5) REVIEW |
9 🔺 Official Secrets $80k on 4 screens *new* REVIEW |
| 10 Angry Birds 2 $4.1(cum. $33.9) |
10 🔺 Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles [DOC] $74k on 28 screens (cum. $131k |
numbers on that chart are pulled from boxofficemojo
The biggest gainer among wide releases was Spider-Man Far From Home which returned to the top ten by re-expanding by 2,000+ theaters with some extra minutes of footage added (the same trick Avengers Endgame played to put itself past Avatar in the all-time charts).
It was quiet at the nation's arthouses. The weekend's best per screen average went to the new Keira Knightley drama Official Secrets (reviewed at Sundance) with a decent $20,000 per screen at 4 locations. We also wanted to mention Honeyland (reviewed) which fell just below the top ten above. It's now amasssed $371k in the US (impressive for a foreign language documentary on beekepeing!) and was announced to be the Oscar submission for North Macedonia recently so try to see it while it's still in theaters (it's at 42 locations now)