Late August and early September is traditionally dump season. Even with Labor Day providing a three-day weekend, there rarely is anything particularly good or memorable released during this time of year, though there are a few cult hits scattered among the detritus. (*4 day weekend totals)
Two Years Ago--August 28, 2020:
New Theatrical Releases:
The New Mutants--1/$7 million/$23.9 million/13/35%/43
Bill & Ted Face the Music--4/$1.1 million/$3.4 million/45/83%/65
The Personal History of David Copperfield--5/$0.5 million/$1.9 million/57/92%/77
The Eight Hundred--9/$0.1 million/$0.4 million/120/88%/64
Lingua Franca--NA/NA/88%/61
The Mole Agent--NA/NA/95%/69
New Streaming Releases:
Ava--18%/39
Rogue--64%/NA
Six Years Ago--August 26, 2016:
New Wide Releases:
Don't Breathe--1/$26.4 million/$89.2 million/34/88%/71
Mechanic: Resurrection--5/$7.5 million/$21.2 million/103/30%/38
New Limited Releases:
Southside With You--$6.3 million/150/91%/74
Hands of Stone--$4.7 million/158/44%/54
Eleven Years Ago--September 2, 2011:
#1 Movie:
The Help--$14.6 million
New Wide Releases:
The Debt--2/$9.9 million/$31.2 million/98/77%/65
Apollo 18--3/$8.7 million/$17.7 million/123/24%/24
Shark Night--4/$8.4 million/$18.9 million/121/19%/22
New Limited Releases:
Seven Days in Utopia--$4.4 million/162/23%/37
Sixteen Years Ago--September 1, 2006:
#1 Movie:
Invincible--$12.2 million
New Wide Releases:
Crank--2/$10.5 million/$27.8 million/100/61%/57
The Wicker Man--3/$9.6 million/$23.7 million/107/15%/36
Crossover--12/$3.8 million/$7 million/173/2%/30
Expanding:
The Illusionist--5/$6.2 million
Twenty-One Years Ago--August 31, 2001:
New Wide Releases:
Jeepers Creepers--1/$13.1 million/$37.9 million/65/46%/49
O--7/$5.7 million/$16 million/111/64%/53
Twenty-Six Years Ago--August 30, 1996:
New Wide Releases:
The Crow: City of Angels--1/$9.8 million*/$17.9 million/91/11%/NA
First Kid--3/$8.4 million*/$26.5 million/59/20%/48
The Stupids--15/$1.6 million*/$2.5 million/175/21%/NA
New Limited Releases:
The Trigger Effect--$3.6 million/165/72%/66
Thirty-One Years Ago--August 30, 1991:
#1 Movie:
Dead Again--$6.3 million*
New Wide Releases:
Child's Play 3--2/$5.7 million*/$15 million/79/23%/27
Thirty-Six Years Ago--August 29, 1986:
#1 Movie:
Stand By Me--$5 million*
New Wide Releases:
Born American--9/$2.2 million*/$3.4 million/124/NA/35
Bullies--13/$1.5 million*/$3 million/127/NA/NA
Forty-One Years Ago--August 28, 1981:
New Limited Releases:
Body Heat--$24.1 million/33/98%/77
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash--NA/NA/NA/NA
Gallipoli--$5.7 million/76/91%/65
Expanding:
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