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Box Office Flashback: August 19, 2022

As we move later into August, the last few big summer titles come out.  Oddly enough, so do the Oscar contenders.  Of course, the end of August also brings with it plenty of trash, as studios try to empty their shelves of problematic titles.

Two Years Ago--August 14, 2020:

New Theatrical Releases:

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run--1/$0.9 million/$4.8 million/42/67%/65

Unhinged--2/$0.6 million/$20.8 million/17/48%/40

The Silencing--6/$0.05 million/$0.1 million/185/13%/NA

Spree--10/$0.02 million/$0.03 million/229/67%/42


Six Years Ago--August 12, 2016:

#1 Movie:

Suicide Squad--$43.5 million

New Wide Releases:

Sausage Party--2/$34.3 million/$97.7 million/31/82%/66

Pete's Dragon--3/$21.5 million/$76.2 million/40/88%/71

Florence Foster Jenkins--8/$6.6 million/$27.4 million/94/88%/71

New Limited Releases:

Anthropoid--$3 million/186/66%/59

Hell or High Water--$27 million/95/97%/88


Eleven Years Ago--August 19, 2011:

#1 Movie

The Help--$20 million

New Wide Releases:

Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World--3/$11.6 million/$38.5 million/77/23%/37

Conan the Barbarian--4/$10 million/$21.3 million/118/25%/36

Fright Night--6/$7.7 million/$18.3 million/122/72%/64

One Day--9/$5.1 million/$13.8 million/130/36%/48


Sixteen Years Ago--August 18, 2006:

New Wide Releases:

Snakes on a Plane--1/$13.9 million/$34 million/93/69%/58

Accepted--5/$10 million/$36.3 million/87/38%/47

Material Girls--9/$4.6 million/$11.5 million/153/4%/17

New Limited Releases:

The Illusionist--$39.9 million/77/73%/68

Expanding:

Little Miss Sunshine--7/$5.6 million


Twenty-One Years Ago--August 17, 2001:

#1 Movie:

American Pie 2--$21.1 million

New Wide Releases:

Rat Race--3/$11.7 million/$56.6 million/44/45%/52

Captain Corelli's Mandolin--6/$7.2 million/$25.5 million/89/28%/36

American Outlaws--8/$4.9 million/$13.3 million/123/14%/25


Twenty-Six Years Ago--August 16, 1996:

New Wide Releases:

Tin Cup--1/$10.1 million/$53.9 million/28/72%/60

The Fan--4/$6.3 million/$18.6 million/89/37%/32

Alaska--8/$2.9 million/$11.8 million/117/23%/NA

Bordello of Blood--9/$2.6 million/$5.8 million/141/15%/36

House Arrest--12/$2.3 million/$7 million/139/10%/NA


Thirty-One Years Ago--August 16, 1991:

#1 Movie:

Hot Shots!--$6.3 million

New Wide Releases:

Mystery Date--8/$2 million/$6.2 million/116/25%/NA

New Limited Releases:

The Commitments--$14.9 million/80/89%/73

In the Shadow of the Stars--NA/NA/NA/NA


Thirty-Six Years Ago--August 15, 1986:

New Wide Releases:

The Fly--1/$7 million/$40.5 million/23/93%/79

Armed and Dangerous--2/$4.4 million/$16 million/55/10%/17

Manhunter--8/$2.2 million/$8.6 million/76/93%/75

New Limited Releases:

The Boy Who Could Fly--$7.2 million/88/63%/67


Forty-One Years Ago--August 14, 1981:

New Wide Releases:

Condorman--NA/NA/31%/46

Deadly Blessing--$8.3 million/68/33%/56

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