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Box Office Weekend: Don’t Breathe Regulates Labor Day Box Office

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

Things are looking good for Don’t Breathe as it enters its second week at the top of the box office class. Through the holiday weekend, it held onto quite a bit of its income, as an estimated $19.6 million added up to a $55 million domestic total – well above its $9.9 million costs. And though it had much more ground to make up, Suicide Squad remained critic-proof and a success, staying in second place with an estimated $12.8 million and over $300.2 million in domestic income, and $675.7 million worldwide. In third and fourth place, the critically successful Pete’s Dragon (estimated $8.6 million) and Kubo and the Two Strings (estimated $8.5 Don't Breathe Postermillion) have failed to spark much in box office returns; while Pete’s Dragon is closer to success with its $94.9 million in worldwide revenue, Kubo and the Two Strings has not even reached its $60 million budget costs, earning $41.8 million worldwide.

Though not for kids, Sausage Party is currently the highest grossing animated film of the current top ten (third overall), as an estimated $6.5 million gave the $19 million production a domestic total of $89.6 million. War Dogs, in the meantime, is one of only two films on the list unwilling to release its budget costs, but at an estimated $6 million holiday weekend and $36.5 million in domestic total, it would be difficult to call it a success. Though it is certainly a success compared to Mechanic: Resurrection (estimated $5.6 million), which has made $15.7 million domestically and languishes in tenth place on the list.

Bad Moms landed just below War Dogs, also with an estimated $6 million, but has managed to break $100 million in revenue and continues to be a strong winner at the box office. An opening estimated of $5.9 million, on the other hand, represents a slow start for The Light Between Oceans, the romantic drama costing $20 million and receiving lukewarm critical praise. But wider release has been kinder to Hell or High Water, the critically praised western starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges rose from twelfth to ninth place with an estimated $5.6 million, though it still needs a bit of income to break even on its $12 million costs.

Weekend Box Office (September 2nd – September 5th)

  1. Don’t Breathe…$19.6 million
  2. Suicide Squad…$12.8 million
  3. Pete’s Dragon…$8.6 million
  4. Kubo and the Two Strings…$8.5 million
  5. Sausage Party…$6.5 million
  6. War Dogs…$6 million
  7. Bad Moms…$6 million
  8. The Light Between Oceans…$5.9 million
  9. Hell or High Water…$5.6 million
  10. Mechanic: Resurrection…$5.6 million

Seth Paul

When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."
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