The Labor Day weekend is a dead weekend for movies – even though there is money to be made on it – and the theaters tried to up their game for it with a National Cinema’s Day with $3 tickets. That helped to get people back into the theater for a couple of things such as the re-release of Spider-Man: No Way Home with additional footage. That let the film add another $6 million for the three days and projected a bit more when viewed as a four-day weekend with the holiday.
It also helped with Top Gun Maverick as that film in its 15th week added another $5.5 million which with the Monday numbers will put it over the $700 million mark.
Pretty great for a movie nobody thought should be made.
Everything else is pretty much just a few million and close to that so it’s jockeying for a position where it doesn’t mean much. Dragon Ball Super at least added another $2.4 million to its coffers to bring it to $34.8 million, which is really great for a specialty project like this.
As for what’s next, September 9th sees the wide release of Brahmastra Part One: Shiva from Disney while 20th Century Studios goes with the horror/thriller Barbarian. Avenue Pictures is going to try and go wide with Medieval.
| # | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total | Market Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Sony | $6,000,000 | 3,935 | $1,525 | $810,793,000 | 38.6% |
| 2 | Top Gun Maverick | Paramount | $5,500,000 | 3,113 | $1,767 | $698,829,744 | 27.2% |
| 3 | DC League of Super Pets | Warner Bros. | $5,450,000 | 3,115 | $1,750 | $80,806,058 | 5.8% |
| 4 | Bullet Train | Sony | $5,400,000 | 3,117 | $1,732 | $85,932,558 | 5.7% |
| 5 | Invitation, The | Sony | $4,705,000 | 3,114 | $1,511 | $13,749,963 | 4.8% |
| 6 | Beast | Universal | $3,640,000 | 3,217 | $1,131 | $25,419,575 | 4.4% |
| 7 | Minions: The Rise Of Gru | Universal | $3,130,000 | 2,457 | $1,274 | $358,867,065 | 3.8% |
| 8 | Thor: Love And Thunder | Disney | $2,446,000 | 2,090 | $1,170 | $339,962,296 | 3.4% |
| 9 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero | Crunchyroll | $2,411,000 | 2,468 | $977 | $34,863,492 | 2.8% |
| 10 | Jaws (1975) | Universal | $2,300,000 | 1,246 | $1,846 | $266,224,000 | 1.1% |
| 11 | Where The Crawdads Sing | Sony | $1,865,000 | 2,074 | $899 | $84,855,398 | 0.4% |
| 12 | Nope | Universal | $1,580,000 | 1,518 | $1,041 | $120,125,275 | 0.3% |
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[Source: Box Office Essentials]