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Sony's thriller "Don't Breathe" leads box office for 2nd weekend

Xinhua, September 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

The U.S. Labor Day weekend box office saw Sony's thriller "Don't Breathe" lead the chart with 15.7 million U.S. dollars in estimated sales this weekend, not including Labor Day Monday receipts.

"Don't Breathe" was expected to deal 19.4 million dollars in tickets by the close of business Labor Day. This 9.9 million dollars budget film finished atop the box office for a second weekend in a row only with a drop of 40.6 percent compared with last weekend.

It gross now sits over 51.1 million dollars after 10 days in release. And it became only the second horror film to top the weekend box office two weekends in a row since 2014.

In second place, "Suicide Squad" was expected to close in at 10 million dollars three-day revenue and around 13 million dollars for four-day weekend. Over five weeks since its release, it has grossed 297.4 million dollars in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates gathered by comScore.

Internationally, "Suicide Squad" added another 11.8 million dollars this weekend from other 65 territories, pushing its overseas gross to 375.5 million dollars and its worldwide gross to over 672.9 million dollars, much more than its 175 million dollars budget.

Two animated film came in nearly tied for third and fourth in three-day weekend, "Pete's Dragon" at 6.47 million dollars and "Kubo And The Two Strings" at 6.46 million dollars.

The R-rated Sony's comedy "Sausage Party" was in fifth place with 5.3 million dollars on its fourth three-day weekend of exhibition, and 88.4 million dollars in sales over four weeks.

As the end of the Labor Day in the United States, the summer revenue for 2016 seems to be in a neck and neck battle with last year.

Box office analysts at comScore noted that the total box revenue of this summer could be statistically dead even with the summer of 2015's 4.5 billion dollars final full season total.

Disney's animated film "Finding Dory" holds the first place in this summer with around 482 million dollars in North America and 943 million dollars worldwide. It also leads as the No. 1 animated film of all-time in North America. Endit