Despite the National Cinema Day promotion today, the Labor Day holiday domestic weekend box-office is still on track to be fairly dire – albeit better than last weekend.
The re-release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” with what’s dubbed its ‘More Fun Stuff Version’ – an extended cut 11 minutes longer – is on track for a four-day weekend gross of $6.1 million following a $1.75 million haul on Friday.
That’s likely to top this weekend’s box-office, but because the differences in the Top 5-6 films are likely to be within $1-2 million of each other, the ordering could keep changing through until the end of business Monday.
“Top Gun: Maverick” just keeps on ticking and could cruise past the web slinger. Despite the film’s major digital push over the past week or so, the film is on track to drop only 5% from last weekend over the three-day and to score a Labor Day boost meaning it could well have another shot at the top spot with projections currently at $5.95 million for the four-day weekend.
‘Maverick’ is also looking on track to pass “Black Panther” next week to make it into the domestic Top 5 earners of all time.
Sony meanwhile has two films that are contenders for first, with “Bullet Train” on track for $5.9 million over the four days. Horror-thriller “The Invitation” is holding better than expected and is projected for a $4.73 million gross.
Warners has “DC’s League of Super-Pets,” and Universal has “Beast” all still out, with those films tracking for $5.1 million and $4.8 million four-day totals.
The only new wide release for the weekend, the church satire “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” earned $430,000 on Friday and didn’t even crack the Top 10 – it’s looking to land on $1.5 million for the four-day holiday. It wasn’t helped by a rather pitiful C- CinemaScore from audiences.
Source: Deadline
