Today will mark the final day for summer Box Office with the 2015 4.48 billion dollars according to comScore.
That would be almost last summer’s total, but 5.5 per cent behind the 2013 record of 4.75 billion dollars.
The Labour Day frame was performing better than 2015’s, when Sony’s second weekend of “The War Room” won with 13.3 million dollars over four days.
“Don’t Breathe” would hit nearly 55 million dollars in its first 11 days and was already in profit for Sony, thanks to its price tag of less than 10 million dollars.
The tale of a home-invasion burglary gone badly was the latest in a long line of strong performers in the horror category this summer, including two New Line entries.
“The Conjuring 2″ and “Lights Out” — Universals’ “The Purge: Election Year” and Sony’s “The Shallows’’ and “Suicide Squad” declined by only 18 per cent during the Friday-Sunday period and had become the eighth title to top the 300 million dollars mark this year.
Disney’s fourth weekend of fantasy-adventure “Pete’s Dragon” was leading the rest of the pack with an estimated 8.9 million dollars for four days.
Edging Focus Features third frame of animated drama “Kubo and the Two Strings” with 8.7 million dollars.
Sony’s fourth weekend of “Sausage Party” is following in fifth with 6.7 million dollars for a total of nearly 90 million dollars.
Disney’s launch of period drama “Oceans” premiered Thursday in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz, the film was the final DreamWorks title being distributed by Disney through its Touchstone label with future DreamWorks movie going out through Universal.
“The Light between Oceans,” which carries a 20 million dollars production budget, is directed by Derek Cianfrance from his own script based on the M.L. Stedman novel.
“Morgan,” directed by Luke Scott, centres on an intelligent robot, played by Anya Taylor-Joy who attacks one of her creators.
The ensemble cast includes Kate Mara, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Boyd Holbrook, Michelle Yeoh, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Giamatti.
“Morgan” is a low-risk proposition for Fox with a skimpy 6 million dollars budget.
Scott is the son of Ridley Scott and has been a second-unit director on two of his father’s recent movies “The Martian” and “Exodus: Gods and Kings.” (Reuters/NAN)