by Conan Simmons – September 8, 2020 – 4:36 pm
Labor Day weekend has come to a close and the weekend box office numbers are in, as expected Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action film ‘Tenet’ takes the number one spot. No other new films broke the top 5 and Disney has not released the streaming numbers for ‘Mulan’ meaning it probably didn’t do too well.
Not all theaters in the U.S. are open yet due to Covid-19. Science-fiction fantasy is dominating the box office with three of the five films in the top 5 falling into the genre.
Weekend Top 5 (September 4 – 7, Labor Day Weekend)
- ‘Tenet’ – $20.2 million – sci-fi action
- ‘The New Mutants’ – $2.9 million – fantasy (falling from #1 with $7 million)
- ‘Unhinged’ – $1.8 million – action (falling from #2 with $2.6 million)
- ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ – $700k – comedy (falling from #3 with $1 million)
- ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run’ – $300k – animated (falling from #4 with $600k)
Overall this weekends box office total is $25.9 million. That is an increase of $14.2 million over last weekends total which came in at $11.7 million. An impressive take considering four of the top five films saw revenue declines from 30-59%.
‘The New Mutants’ saw its box office decline by $4.1 million or 59% from its debut weekend.
‘Unhinged’ declined $800k for a 32% drop from last weekend. Overall it has declined 75% from its opening weekend.
‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ dropped $300k for a 30% decline continuing its strong run on positive reviews.
‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run’ also dropped $300k marking its first significant drop since debuting two weeks ago where it has maintained nearly $600k each weekend. It has now declined by 50%.
A good showing for theaters this weekend indicates the industry will be fine as soon as the United States gets its act together and starts putting Covid-19 under control like most of the rest of the world currently has done.