The list of Top 10 movies coming from the second weekend of August is a short one, but we shouldn’t forget it happened just a year ago with It Ends With Us (8/9) opening at $50M and finishing #8 with $131M. We did have one player here (Mario!) savvy enough to select it. No one this year had the cojones to pick the newest horror sensation Weapons ($43M), but that kind of opening will easily hit the necessary $74M to knock off Elio with three full weekends remaining. Getting an ‘A-‘ CinemaScore on top of a 95% RT Critics score from 265 reviews tells us all we need to know about its chances. Sorry Thomas, but it doesn’t look like we’ll see another Perfect Score in 2025.
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Holdover News
- #1 Lilo & Stitch ends up at #40 on the All Time list at $421M as it just shed 2/3 of its theaters for only a $121K weekend.
- #2 Superman moves up one spot after a $7.9M weekend, just as expected. At $331.4M total it’s now #87 on the All Time list, up from #103.
- #3 Jurassic World: Rebirth slides after a $4.8M weekend. Still a good number for a sixth weekend (which was the third best of the summer). At $326.9M it moved up from #99 to #92 on the All Time List.
- #4 How To Train Your Dragon just lost over half its theaters and dropped to a $456K weekend. It’s should hold onto its spot a couple more weeks as…
- #5 The Fantastic Four: First Steps suffered another big weekend drop (-59.2%) for only $15.7M in just its third weekend. $300M doesn’t look likely, and catching HHTYD at $261M isn’t a given.
- #6 M:I – Final Reckoning won’t give up with a $109K weekend and is locked in.
- #7 Thunderbolts* finally called it a career after 14(!) weekends and $190.3M. Not the hit Marvel was hoping for.
- #8 F1 continues to score the best holds of any major movie this summer, with just a -30.2% drop in its seventh weekend. It’s only $11.6M back with 3 full weekends to go.
- #9 Final Dest: Bloodlines is locked in at $138M.
- #10 Elio is pretty much looking at its final weekend in the Top 10.
Next Weekend: There may not be any more SMP selections for the remainder of August, but we do get a couple new Wide releases in Nobody 2 and Americana. The first Nobody (2021) was a pleasant surprise, but that really bad trailer for the sequel isn’t doing it any favors. Americana looks much more interesting.