Friday, October 14, 2022

Box Office Flashback October 7, 2022

With the arrival of October, movies tended to get an uptick both in terms of quality and of box office potential.  Of course, October is also the beginning of horror movie season, so expect a large number of them over the next month.

Two Years Ago--October 2, 2020:

#1 Movie:

Tenet--$2.7 million

New Theatrical Releases:

Possessor--8/$0.3 million/$0.8 million/81/94%/72

Save Yourselves!--10/$0.1 million/$0.3 million/129/89%/67

The Forty-Year-Old Version--NA/NA/99%/80

On the Rocks--NA/NA/87%/73

Spontaneous--NA/NA/96%/78

New Streaming Releases:

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet--96%/72

Dick Johnson is Dead--100%/89

New Re-Releases:

Hocus Pocus--2/$1.9 million/$4.9 million/41


Six Years Ago--September 30, 2016:

New Wide Releases:

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children--1/$28.9 million/$87.2 million/35/64%/57

Deepwater Horizon--2/$20.2 million/$61.4 million/53/82%/68

Masterminds--6/$6.5 million/$17.4 million/114/34%/47

New Limited Releases:

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story--$1.8 million/209/75%/NA

Denial--$4.1 million/164/83%/63

American Honey--$0.7 million/262/79%/79

A Man Called Ove--$3.5 million/175/91%/70

Expanding:

Queen of Katwe--7/$2.5 million


Eleven Years Ago--October 7, 2011:

New Wide Releases:

Real Steel--1/$27.3 million/$85.5 million/35/60%/56

The Ides of March--2/$10.5 million/$41 million/74/73%/67

New Limited Releases:

Hell and Back Again--$0.04 million/426/100%/81


Sixteen Years Ago--October 6, 2006:

New Wide Releases:

The Departed--1/$26.9 million/$132.4 million/15/90%/85

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning--2/$19.2 million/$39.5 million/78/15%/30

Employee of the Month--4/$11.4 million/$28.4 million/97/20%/36

New Limited Releases:

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie--$3.9 million/187/57%/38

Shortbus--$2 million/213/68%/64

Little Children--$5.5 million/180/80%/75


Twenty-One Years Ago--October 5, 2001:

New Wide Releases:

Training Day--1/$22.6 million/$76.6 million/29/73%/69

Serendipity--2/$13.3 million/$50.3 million/52/59%/52

Joy Ride--5/$7.4 million/$22 million/99/74%/75

Max Keeble's Big Move--6/$5.4 million/$17.3 million/106/29%/40


Twenty-Six Years Ago--October 4, 1996:

#1 Movie:

The First Wives Club--$11 million

New Wide Releases:

The Glimmer Man--2/$7.6 million/$20.4 million/81/11%/33

That Thing You Do!--3/$6.2 million/$25.9 million/60/93%/71

D3: The Mighty Ducks--4/$6.2 million/$23 million/69/20%/NA

New Limited Releases:

Bound--$3.8 million/161/90%/61

Small Wonders--$0.02 million/291/NA/NA

Expanding:

Big Night--10/$1.2 million


Thirty-One Years Ago--October 4, 1991:

#1 Movie:

The Fisher King--$6.1 million

New Wide Releases:

Ricochet--2/$4.8 million/$21.8 million/62/74%/49

The Super--5/$3.7 million/$11 million/93/0%/NA

Shout--9/$1.6 million/$3.6 million/135/NA/NA

New Limited Releases:

The Rapture--$1.3 million/163/67%/NA

Stepping Out--$0.2 million/216/NA/NA

Twenty-One--$0.3 million/214/57%/NA

Expanding:

Paradise--6/$3.6 million

Suburban Commando--7/$2 million


Thirty-Six Years Ago--October 3, 1986:

#1 Movie:

"Crocodile" Dundee--$8.2 million

New Wide Releases:

Tough Guys--2/$4.6 million/$21.5 million/43/53%/54

Children of a Lesser God--5/$1.9 million/$31.9 million/32/80%/80

Playing for Keeps--6/$1.4 million/$2.7 million/130/NA/NA

New Limited Releases:

'Round Midnight--$3.3 million/125/96%/NA


Forty-One Years Ago--October 2, 1981:

New Wide Releases:

Paternity--$18.8 million/39/NA/45

New Limited Releases:

Zoot Suit--$3.3 million/84/55%/NA


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