Is mid-October a terrible time to release a movie? Not necessarily, but you wouldn't know it from this week's anniversary list, which largely consists of underachievers and disappointments.
*Total is for full four-day weekend
Two Years Ago--October 9, 2020:
New Theatrical Releases:
The War With Grandpa--1/$3.6 million/$21.3 million/15/29%/34
Yellow Rose--9/$0.2 million/$0.4 million/121/87%/70
Time--NA/NA/98%/91
New Streaming Releases:
Charm City Kings--79%/62
New Re-Releases:
Coco--6/$0.6 million/NA/NA
Six Years Ago--October 7, 2016:
New Wide Releases:
The Girl on the Train--1/$24.5 million/$75.4 million/41/44%/48
The Birth of a Nation--6/$7 million/$15.9 million/116/73%/69
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life--7/$6.9 million/$20 million/108/64%/51
New Limited Releases:
Under the Shadow--$0.3 million/517/99%/83
13th--NA/NA/97%/83
Eleven Years Ago--October 14, 2011:
#1 Movie:
Real Steel--$16.3 million
New Wide Releases:
Footloose--2/$15.6 million/$51.8 million/67/68%/58
The Thing--3/$8.5 million/$16.9 million/124/34%/49
The Big Year--9/$3.3 million/$7.2 million/146/42%/53
New Limited Releases:
The Skin I Live In--$3.2 million/170/81%/70
Bombay Beach--NA/NA/77%/74
Sixteen Years Ago--October 13, 2006:
New Wide Releases:
The Grudge 2--1/$20.8 million/$39.1 million/79/12%/33
Man of the Year--3/$12.3 million/$37.3 million/85/21%/39
The Marine--6/$7.1 million/$18.8 million/120/17%/45
One Night With the King--9/$4.3 million/$13.4 million/139/19%/38
New Limited Releases:
Infamous--$1.2 million/235/74%/68
Sweet Land--$1.7 million/217/85%/75
Deliver Us From Evil--$0.2 million/329/100%/86
Twenty-One Years Ago--October 12, 2001:
#1 Movie:
Training Day--$13.4 million
New Wide Releases:
Bandits--2/$13.1 million/$41.6 million/58/64%/60
Corky Romano--3/$9 million/$24 million/94/7%/20
Iron Monkey--6/$6 million/$14.7 million/115/91%/79
New Limited Releases:
Mulholland Drive--$7.2 million/136/85%/85
The American Astronaut--NA/NA/63%/51
Twenty-One Years Ago--October 11, 1996:
New Wide Releases:
The Ghost and the Darkness--1/$9.2 million/$38.6 million/38/50%/46
The Long Kiss Goodnight--3/$9.1 million/$33.5 million/46/68%/44
The Chamber--4/$5.6 million/$14.6 million/103/15%/45
New Limited Releases:
Michael Collins--$11.1 million/120/78%/60
Trees Lounge--$0.8 million/212/81%/76
Looking for Richard--$1.4 million/189/82%/NA
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press--$0.003 million/305/NA/NA
Thirty-One Years Ago--October 11, 1991:
#1 Movie:
The Fisher King--$5 million*
New Wide Releases:
Frankie and Johnny--3/$4.8 million*/$22.8 million/58/66%/66
Ernest Scared Stupid--4/$4.5 million*/$14.1 million/85/17%/38
Shattered--6/$3.5 million*/$11.5 million/89/36%/NA
New Limited Releases:
Little Man Tate--$25 million/53/73%/71
Homicide--$3 million/136/92%/84
City of Hope--$1.4 million/161/94%/NA
Mindwalk--$0.8 million/183/78%/NA
Thirty-Six Years Ago--October 10, 1986:
#1 Movie:
"Crocodile" Dundee--$10.6 million*
New Wide Releases:
Peggy Sue Got Married--2/$6.9 million*/$41.4 million/19/86%/75
Jumpin' Jack Flash--3/$6 million*/$29.8 million/34/27%/52
Deadly Friend--4/$3.8 million*/$9 million/75/13%/44
New Limited Releases:
True Stories--$2.6 million/134/79%/67
Expanding:
That's Life!--9/$1.4 million*
Forty-One Years Ago--October 8, 1981:
New Wide Releases:
Rich and Famous--$14.3 million/52/60%/52
True Confessions--$12.9 million/69%/68
Expanding:
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Gallipoli
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