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Breathing activity into what was accepted to be a apathetic end to the summer box appointment season, Sony Pictures’ “Don’t Breathe” over-performed, abrogation three-time box appointment champ, Warner Bros.’ “Suicide Squad,” in the dust.
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Box Office: 'Don't Breathe' Scares Up $26.1 Million as Hot Summer ... | don t breathe box officeThe low-budget abhorrence cine raked in a hasty estimated $26.1 actor in the U.S. and Canada, able-bodied afore analyst projections of $12 actor to $14 million.
“‘Don’t Breathe’ is a blur that, I accept to admit, from Day One, we knew we had article special,” said Rory Bruer, the studio’s administration chief. “It was one of those things area the aisle concluded up actuality far above what we could've imagined, a beauteous result.”
The agitated abstruseness about a accumulation of accompany whose home aggression artifice goes angrily amiss stars Stephen Lang, Jane Levy and Dylan Minnette amid others. The $9.8-million flick is the latest banking success for Uruguay-born writer-director Fede Alvarez, best accepted for 2013’s “Evil Dead" remake. Alvarez has been in aerial appeal in Hollywood aback he was apparent through a abbreviate blur uploaded to YouTube in 2009.
“Don’t Breathe” benefited from one of the biggest, best advancing agenda business campaigns in Sony’s history, afterward afresh acknowledged digital-skewing campaigns for “Sausage Party” and “The Shallows.”
Audiences and cine critics arise pleased. Admirers gave the account an all-embracing B-plus CinemaScore (A-minus from the beneath 35 crowd) while 87% of Rotten Tomatoes critics rated the blur positively.
“Don’t Breathe” is the latest in well-reviewed abhorrence fare, a brand that has had a active summer at the box office, including hits like “Lights Out" and “The Conjuring 2” from New Line Cinema, and “The Purge: Election Year” from Universal Pictures.
“Suicide Squad” alone to additional abode with $12.1 actor in its fourth week, still affair analyst expectations, which were at $12 actor this week. The DC antihero mashup, afterwards accepting almost poor reviews, has taken in $282.9 actor domestically. Internationally, the account has brought in an estimated $353.1 million.
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t Breathe Tops Box Office, Jason Bourne Big in China | don t breathe box officeLanding in third was “Kubo and the Two Strings,” from LAIKA and Focus Features, with $7.9 million. In its additional week, the activated blur has grossed $24.9 actor domestically to date.
Sony’s “Sausage Party” continues to be a big money maker, landing in fourth in its third week, with an estimated $7.7 million. The $19-million blur has already fabricated aback added than four times its amount with a calm gross to date of $80 million.
The alone added above absolution this week, Lionsgate’s “Mechanic: Resurrection,” took the fifth atom with an estimated $7.5 actor in admission sales. Though alone affair analyst expectations of $6 actor to $8 million, the blur will prove to be a above success for the flat aback factoring in projections on the home ball advanced and its UK release.
“Mechanic: Resurrection” is the aftereffect in a Jason Statham franchise. The first, “The Mechanic,” about an aristocratic hitman, opened to $11 actor aback it was appear by CBS Films in 2011. It eventually grossed $62 actor worldwide.
In the new film, Statham, accepted for activity roles in the “Fast & Furious” and “Crank” franchises, is abutting by costars Jessica Alba and Tommy Lee Jones.
“Mechanic: Resurrection” has audiences and critics at odds. While admirers gave the account a B-plus CinemaScore, alone 24% of Rotten Tomatoes critics advantaged it.
On the limited-release front, this weekend was “Hands of Stone,” from Weinstein Co. The battle ball pulled in an estimated $1.7 actor from a mid-level absolution of about 800 theaters, advancing in able-bodied beneath analyst projections of beneath than $6 million.
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Box Office Prediction: Don't Breathe vs. Suicide Squad | don t breathe box officeThe blur tells the adventure of Panamanian fighter Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez), who became a apple best with the advice of allegorical drillmaster Ray Arcel (De Niro). R&B accompanist Usher plays allegorical boxer Sugar Ray Leonard.
“Hands of Stone” was originally planned for a added push, but the aggregation absitively to calibration aback its absolution plans, a absorption of the abstracts they had calm at the time, said David Glasser, the studio’s admiral and arch operating officer.
“By activity on 800 screens early, [audiences] alpha to apprehend who [the film’s characters] are,” he said. “It was about accepting the admirers acquisition it.”
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The admirers appropriately far has been 60% macho and 50% Latino. And while alone 46% of Rotten Tomatoes critics advantaged the flick, admirers gave it an A CinemaScore, with the under-35 army giving it an A-plus, according to the studio.
Glasser projects able chat of aperture will see the film’s achievement access abutting anniversary aback it expands to 2,000 theaters.
Another notable admission in bound absolution is Roadside Attraction’s Barack and Michelle Obama adulation adventure “Southside With You.” It took in about $3 actor from about 800 locations.
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Don't Breathe' Box Office Could Hit $21 Million In Debut Weekend ... | don t breathe box officeThe blur starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter as the Aboriginal Couple afore the White House is a hit with critics, with 93% of Rotten Tomatoes critics benign the picture.
Up abutting for premieres on Labor Day weekend is Disney’s “The Light Between Oceans” and a host of baby releases.
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