{"id":117874,"date":"2025-08-29T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117874\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:00:12","slug":"summer-box-office-to-end-with-a-sluggish-labor-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117874\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Box Office to End With a Sluggish Labor Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labor Day weekend historically closes the summer box office season on a quiet note, but this weekend will be a particularly sluggish one for theaters as the fourth weekend of Warner Bros.\/New Line\u2019s \u201cWeapons\u201d may return to the No. 1 spot after the limited engagement of \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d edged it out last weekend.<\/p>\n

The new release slate for this upcoming holiday is highlighted by Sony\/Columbia\u2019s \u201cCaught Stealing,\u201d a new crime thriller starring Austin Butler and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Next weekend may see more of a boost with the anticipated $35 million-plus opening for another New Line film, \u201cThe Conjuring: Last Rites.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jay Roach\u2019s \u201cWar of the Roses\u201d remake \u201cThe Roses\u201d starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will also be released by Searchlight, while Universal will offer a 50th anniversary re-release of the first modern blockbuster, Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cJaws.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cCaught Stealing\u201d is expected to lead the newcomers with a studio-projected $10 million 4-day opening from 3,500 locations. Filmed in New York, it carries a net budget of $40 million and may need post-theatrical revenue to get in the black if it doesn\u2019t find a foothold with an expected predominantly male audience.<\/p>\n

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While some criticism was leveled towards its familiar plot beats and gratuitous violence, critics have been largely positive towards \u201cCaught Stealing,\u201d calling it the most accessibly entertaining film from the director of \u201cRequiem for a Dream\u201d and \u201cMother!\u201d As of this writing, it has an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Roses,\u201d a dark comedy based on the 1981 novel \u201cThe War of the Roses\u201d has received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics with a 65% Rotten Tomatoes score.<\/a> Projections have that film earning a $6-9 million 4-day opening from approximately 2,500 locations while the \u201cJaws\u201d re-release is projected for a $6-8 million 4-day total.<\/p>\n

Labor Day tends to be when a lot of the summer box office momentum slows to a crawl. Since theaters reopened following the pandemic, the four-day weekend stretch has exceeded $100 million for three of the past four years, with the highest being the $139 million extended weekend of 2021 thanks to the opening of Marvel\u2019s \u201cShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the low end was Labor Day weekend 2022, where the fifteenth weekend of \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d led the charts amid a drought of popular new releases that lasted until November, with overall totals for the holiday reaching just $71 million. 2025\u2019s Labor Day total should be higher but is unlikely to exceed $100 million.<\/p>\n

By Monday, the summer box office season, which lasts from the first Friday of May to Labor Day, is expected to be flat from last year\u2019s $3.63 billion total. While there were fewer flops and down periods than last summer, only Disney\u2019s live-action \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d exceeded $400 million domestic and $1 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n

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Since theaters reopened, the only $4 billion domestic summer has been in 2023, the year of \u201cBarbie\u201d and \u201cOppenheimer.\u201d From 2007 to 2019, the summer total exceeded $4 billion every year save for the $3.8 billion total of 2017. <\/p>\n

Despite the diminished market, some major theater chains have been able to adjust thanks to loyalty programs and other amenities that have increased spending from those who are still going to theaters frequently. For the second quarter of this year, which include the first half of the summer season and the release of spring hits \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d and \u201cSinners,\u201d Cinemark reported the second highest quarterly earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization<\/a> in company history behind only the second quarter of 2019, the period in which \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d was released.<\/p>\n

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