Jaws Just Snagged Labor Day’s Box Office—Is Hollywood Swimming with Sharks or Sinking Fast?
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Labor Day weekend at the box office—sweet, slow, and almost as predictable as Mercury retrograde wreaking havoc on your texts . With the cosmic lineup favoring nostalgia and unexpected comebacks, Zach Cregger’s Weapons has swaggered back into the top spot, charming audiences to the tune of roughly $12 million. Meanwhile, Jaws, yes the 50-year-old Spielberg classic, is sticking its teeth into second place with a surprising $9.7 million haul—prove that nothing, not even a packed cast of shiny new releases, can outshine a cinematic legend on the big screen, especially when viewed in glorious IMAX. Now, here’s a cosmic question for you: is Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing getting moon-ruined or just lost in the holiday shuffle? With a critically acclaimed pedigree, this flick barely making a splash feels like a studio misstep of galactic proportions—maybe Sony’s stars just weren’t aligned on release strategy, snagging Netflix instead. And The Roses? Struggling under the shadow of its ‘War of the Roses’ forebear, it’s eking out $7.5 million—still, a whole lot better than the disaster-zone that is The Toxic Avenger reboot clocking a measly $2.2 million. Click through if your curiosity is piqued and you want the full cosmic crash course on this holiday weekend’s box office chaos. LEARN MORE
Labor Day weekend is always slow at the box office, and this year is proving to be no exception. With Kpop Demon Hunters no longer playing, Zach Cregger’s Weapons was easily able to retake the top spot (as we predicted earlier this week), with Deadline reporting it will end the weekend with about $12 million.
Second place is proving to be a bit of a surprise, with Jaws’ 50th-anniversary release likely to take second place with about $9.7 million for the four-day weekend. The fact that Steven Spielberg’s 50-year-old classic is easily beating some star-studded newcomers is notable, but truth be told, nothing beats the original Jaws on the big screen—and seeing it on an IMAX screen is pretty unforgettable (we have a story on the experience dropping later today).
Sadly, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing is getting lost in the shuffle, with it likely to only make in the high single digits this holiday weekend. I’m not sure what Sony was thinking, dropping a critically acclaimed movie from a beloved director on the traditional Labor Day dump weekend. It feels like this movie was made to serve their Netflix pipeline, with the studio having an exclusive deal that sends their movies directly to the streamer (which also nabbed Kpop Demon Hunters when the studio opted not to give it a theatrical release).
The Roses, a remake of The War of the Roses, isn’t faring too well either, with it only on track for a $7.5 million weekend. However, it’s still doing a million times better than The Toxic Avenger, which will—at best—rank in tenth place with a terrible $2.2 million for this expensive Troma reboot. What a disaster.
We’ll be back tomorrow with a full rundown of the Labor Day weekend box office.
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