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Box Office Flashback August 12, 2022

Mid-August is a weird time at the box office, as the last of the summer blockbusters and the first of the late August-early September dumps begin to open against each other.

Two Years Ago--August 7, 2020:

#1 Movie:

The Tax Collector

New Theatrical Releases:

The Tax Collector--$1 million/68/18%/22

Peninsula--$1.2 million/63/55%/51

Made in Italy--$0.1 million/183/44%/44

La Llorona--NA/NA/96%/79

New Streaming Releases:

An American Pickle--72%/58

The Secret Garden--66%/59


Six Years Ago--August 5, 2016:

New Wide Releases:

Suicide Squad--1/$133.7 million/$325.1 million/9/26%/40

Nine Lives--6/$6.3 million/$19.7 million/109/14%/11

New Limited Releases:

Little Men--$0.7 million/258/97%/86

Embers--NA/NA/83%/55


Eleven Years Ago--August 12, 2011:

#1 Movie:

Rise of the Planet of the Apes--$27.8 million

New Wide Releases:

The Help--2/$26 million/$169.7 million/13/76%/62

Final Destination 5--3/$18 million/$42.6 million/73/62%/50

30 Minutes or Less--5/$13.3 million/$37.1 million/87/45%/49

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie--11/$6 million/$11.9 million/134/60%/48

New Limited Releases:

Senna--$1.6 million/189/93%/79

Unfinished Spaces--NA/NA/NA/NA


Sixteen Years Ago--August 11, 2006:

#1 Movie:

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby--$22.1 million

New Wide Releases:

Step Up--2/$20.7 million/$65.3 million/40/21%/48

World Trade Center--3/$18.7 million/$70.3 million/37/66%/66

Pulse--5/$8.2 million/$20.3 million/117/11%/27

Zoom--9/$4.5 million/$12 million/148/4%/26

New Limited Releases:

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna--$3.3 million/192/55%/NA

Conversations With Other Women--$0.4 million/283/74%/62

Half Nelson--$2.7 million/200/91%/85


Twenty-One Years Ago--August 10, 2001:

New Wide Releases:

American Pie 2--1/$45.1 million/$145.1 million/13/52%/43

The Others--4/$14.1 million/$96.5 million/21/84%/74

Osmosis Jones--7/$5.3 million/$13.6 million/121/56%/57

New Limited Releases:

The Deep End--$8.8 million/130/82%/78


Twenty-Six Years Ago--August 9, 1996:

New Wide Releases:

Jack--1/$11.2 million/$58.6 million/25/17%/31

Escape From L.A.--3/$8.9 million/$25.5 million/63/53%/54

New Limited Releases:

Basquiat--$3 million/170/67%/65


Thirty-One Years Ago--August 9, 1991:

#1 Movie:

Hot Shots!--$8 million

New Wide Releases:

Double Impact--2/$7.6 million/$30.1 million/45/35%/40

Pure Luck--5/$5 million/$22.6 million/59/17%/36

Bingo--10/$2.1 million/$8.7 million/104/NA/NA

Delirious--13/$1.8 million/$5.6 million/119/30%/NA


Thirty-Six Years Ago--August 8, 1986:

#1 Movie:

Aliens--$5.8 million

New Wide Releases:

One Crazy Summer--4/$3.4 million/$13.4 million/62/45%/47

A Fine Mess--9/$2.6 million/$6 million/96/25%/35

New Limited Releases:

Transformers: The Movie--$5.9 million/99/62%/43

Stand By Me--$52.3 million/13/91%/75

She's Gotta Have It--$7.1 million/90/94%/79


Forty-One Years Ago--August 7, 1981:

New Wide Releases:

Heavy Metal--NA/NA/66%/51

New Limited Releases:

An Eye for an Eye--NA/NA/NA/33

Student Bodies--$5.2 million/80/33%/41

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