By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com
The Weekend Report
Don’t Breathe became the air apparent as it scared up an opening estimate of $25.9 million. The session’s other new national debut was the actioner Mechanic: Resurrection that ranked fifth with a $7.3 million tally. Additionally two films got a limited wide launch. The pre-political romance Southside With You inaugurated with modest approval of $2.8 million while Hands of Stone — the fictionalized early years of boxing champion Roberto Duran — bowed to a low blow of $1.7 million. Greater, a fact-based college football drama, fumbled with $640,000 at 434 stadia.
Hell or High Water expanded further and maintained solid averages. There was also an effective slow rollout for A Tale of Love and Darkness. Best of the exclusives was the family dramedy The Hollars with box office of $43,300 from four gatherings.
In the niches, the only Indian import to register a pulse (albeit faint) was the tongue-in-cheek superhero yarn A Flying Jatt, with a $96,400 gross. Chinese imports included Tunnel, with an okay $167,000 and Time Raiders with a tepid $86,700.
With a chunk of youth back in school, the traditional late-summer slump set in, with grosses for the frame barely better than $100 million. Box office ebbed 13% from the prior weekend but was ahead of 2015 by 35%. Twelve months back, the $13.1 million third weekend gross of Straight Outta Compton led with newcomer War Room in second with $11.3 million.
Domestic box office is poised to surpass $8 billion on Wednesday. The current year is running at a 4% faster pace than 2015.
Modestly-budgeted chiller Don’t Breathe was easily tracking ahead of the pack with expectations of a debut of $21 milion or $22 million. Strong critical response and solid word-of-mouth provided a box office boost. The film had a slight male tilt of 53% with 52% of the audience aged 25-years and younger.
The appeared to be limited interest in “Resurrecting” the modestly successful 2011 The Mechanic. Nonetheless, the film hit its core audience with numbers that reflected tracking expectations. It also tilted slightly male at 51% but with 78% of its audience aged 25-years and older.
*Secret Life Of Pets cume updated.
| Weekend (estimates) August 26 – 28, 2016 | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Gross (avg) | % chng | Thtrs | Cume |
| Don’t Breathe | Sony | 25.9 (8,480) | NEW | 3051 | 25.9 |
| Suicide Squad | WB | 12.2 (3,410) | -41% | 3582 | 283 |
| Kubo and the Two Strings | Focus | 7.8 (2,390) | -38% | 3279 | 24.8 |
| Sausage Party | Sony | 7.6 (2,430) | -51% | 3135 | 80 |
| Mechanic: Resurrection | Lionsgate | 7.3 (3,240) | NEW | 2258 | 7.3 |
| Pete’s Dragon | BV | 7.2 (2,220) | -37% | 3244 | 54.6 |
| War Dogs | WB | 7.0 (2,160) | -52% | 3258 | 27.5 |
| Bad Moms | STX/eOne | 5.7 (2,400) | -29% | 2565 | 95.4 |
| Jason Bourne | Uni | 5.2 (2,130) | -35% | 2445 | 149.3 |
| Ben-Hur | Par | 4.5 (1,450) | -60% | 3084 | 19.5 |
| The Secret Life of Pets | Uni | 3.7 (1,790) | -37% | 2091 | 353.2* |
| Hell or High Water | CBS/Lionsgate | 3.6 (4,000) | 35% | 909 | 8.5 |
| Florence Foster Jenkins | Par/eOne | 3.0 (2,250) | -32% | 1324 | 19.8 |
| Southside With You | Roadside | 2.8 (3,430) | NEW | 813 | 2.8 |
| Star Trek Beyond | Par | 2.2 (1,750) | -44% | 1277 | 150.9 |
| Hands of Stone | Weinstein | 1.7 (2,070) | NEW | 810 | 1.7 |
| Lights Out | WB | .69 (1,140) | -57% | 603 | 65.5 |
| Greater | Hammond | .64 (1,880) | NEW | 340 | 0.64 |
| Finding Dory | BV | .63 (1,820) | -31% | 345 | 489.6 |
| Ghostbusters | Sony | .54 (1,240) | -50% | 434 | 124.9 |
| Nerve | Lionsgate | .53 (1,170) | -55% | 455 | 36.8 |
| Nine Lives | Europa/VVS | .49 (920) | -65% | 532 | 18.2 |
| Ice Age: Collision Course | Fox | .48 (1,050) | -47% | 455 | 61.7 |
| Don’t Think Twice | Film Arcade | .44 (2,960) | 16% | 150 | 2.4 |
| Café Society | Lionsgate/Mongrel | .36 (1,660) | -28% | 216 | 10 |
| Equity | Sony Classics | .34 (1,340) | 157% | 255 | 0.93 |
| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) | $111.40 | ||||
| % Change (Last Year) | 35% | ||||
| % Change (Last Week) | -13% | ||||
| Also debuting/expanding | |||||
| Indignation | Roadside Attractions | .24 (1,410) | -53% | 172 | 2.8 |
| Captain Fantastic | Bleecker/eOne | .17 (1,410) | -29% | 122 | 5 |
| Tunnel | Well Go | .17 (4,640) | 36 | 0.17 | |
| Anthropoid | Bleecker/Elevation | .14 (1,160) | -74% | 124 | 2.7 |
| A Tale of Love and Darkness | Focus | .12 (4,580) | 220% | 26 | 0.17 |
| Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Orchard | .12 (1,220) | -26% | 100 | 4.4 |
| A Flying Jatt | Balaji | 96,400 (1,190) | 81 | 0.1 | |
| Time Raiders | Media Asia | 86,700 (2,480) | 35 | 0.09 | |
| Remember the Goal | 5&2 | 59,600 (770) | 77 | 0.06 | |
| Ignacio de Loyola | ABS | 46,700 (2,120) | 22 | 0.05 | |
| The Hollars | Sony Classics | 43,300 (10,070) | 4 | 0.04 | |
| Mia Madre | Music Box | 36,200 (6,030) | 6 | 0.04 | |
| Retour chez ma mere | A-Z Films | 28,800 (1,800) | 16 | 0.03 | |
| Howards End (reissue) | Cohen Media | 24,300 (8,100) | 3 | 0.02 | |
| The Intervention | IDP | 22,900 (1,530) | 15 | 0.02 | |
| 25 Kille | Video Palace | 22,200 (1,010) | 22 | 0.02 | |
| Complete Unknown | IFC | 13,300 (6,650) | 2 | 0.01 | |
| Daylight’s End | Throttle | 10,100 (630) | 16 | 0.01 | |
| Space Dogs: Adventure to the Moon | Epic | 9,600 (175) | 55 | 0.01 | |
| Hav Faith | Habakkuk | 9,500 (4,750) | 2 | 0.01 | |
| In Order of Disappearance | Magnolia | 7,100 (1,420) | 5 | 0.01 | |
| Fatima | Kino | 5,700 (5,700) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Kate Plays Christine | Grasshopper | 5,400 (5,400) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Floyd Norman: An Animated Life | Fiore | 3,700 (1,230) | 3 | 0.01 | |
| Domestic Market Share (January 1 – August 25,2016) | |||||
| Distributor (releases) | Box Office | Market Share | |||
| Buena Vista (11) | 2095.9 | 26.60% | |||
| Warner Bros. (18) | 1286.9 | 16.40% | |||
| 20th Century Fox (14) | 1137.2 | 14.40% | |||
| Universal (14) | 1018.2 | 12.90% | |||
| Sony (19) | 579.1 | 7.40% | |||
| Paramount (12) | 577.7 | 7.40% | |||
| Lionsgate (16) | 317.2 | 4.00% | |||
| Focus (9) | 151.5 | 1.90% | |||
| STX (5) | 143.3 | 1.80% | |||
| Open Road (5) | 69.9 | 0.90% | |||
| Weinstein Co. (8) | 54.9 | 0.70% | |||
| A24 (7) | 48.7 | 0.60% | |||
| Roadside Attractions (8) | 37.3 | 0.50% | |||
| Other * (254) | 351.2 | 4.50% | |||
| 7869 | 100% | ||||
| * none greater than 0.4% | |||||
| Top Domestic Grossers (January 1 – August 25, 2016) | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Box Office | |||
| Finding Dory | BV | 478,968,645 | |||
| Captain America: Civil War | BV | 407,747,164 | |||
| The Jungle Book | BV | 363,274,049 | |||
| Deadpool | Fox | 363,070,709 | |||
| The Secret Life of Pets | Uni | 349,461,005 | |||
| Zootopia | BV | 341,268,248 | |||
| Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice | WB | 331,123,905 | |||
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens * | BV | 284,378,657 | |||
| Suicide Squad | WB | 270,772,627 | |||
| The Revenant | Fox | 182,765,375 | |||
| X-Men: Apocalypse | Fox | 155,854,117 | |||
| Star Trek Beyond | Par | 148,630,049 | |||
| Jason Bourne | Uni | 144,127,235 | |||
| Kung Fu Panda 3 | Fox | 143,528,619 | |||
| Central Intelligence | WB | 127,191,219 | |||
| The Legend of Tarzan | WB | 125,600,081 | |||
| Ghostbusters | Sony | 124,402,621 | |||
| The Angry Birds Movie | Sony | 107,467,556 | |||
| Independence Day: Resurgence | Fox | 102,807,487 | |||
| The Conjuring 2 | WB | 102,470,008 | |||
| * does not include 2015 box office | |||||
