The Labor Day weekend box office is usually pretty dismal & this year was no exception. The upside on a weekend like this is that holdovers get to do decent business since there are no significant releases this weekend. Don’t Let Go was the only real new wide release this weekend & you have to go all the way to 14th place to find it.
Maintaining the top spot is Angel Has Fallen with $11.8 million, down 44.6% from last weekend. The drop was below 50% because the film was the defacto choice for people that decided to go to the movies over the weekend. Factoring in the Labor Day holiday, the film saw a weekend of $14.8 million. Fallen has grossed $43.9 million to date and that puts it over its reported budget of $40 million. Overseas numbers haven’t kicked in yet but Lionsgate should see a solid global take from the film that is similar to its predecessors.
Good Boys holds steady in second with $9.5 million, dropping only 18.4%. I mentioned last week that Good Boys would perform well over Labor Day & this slim drop shows that word of mouth for the R-rated comedy is solid. Factoring in the Labor Day holiday, the weekend came in at $12.1 million. Good Boys has now grossed $59.1 million to date and all on a slim $20 million budget.
The Lion King remains in the top 5 after 7 weeks of release with $6.7 million, down 16.2%. The Lion King is also benefitting from the lack of competition, especially over this weekend. Factoring in the Labor Day holiday, the film saw a weekend of $9.3 million. The Lion King has grossed a staggering $523.5 million to date & has a global take of $1.56 billion.
In fourth, we find Hobbs & Shaw with $6.3 million, down 20.9%. The Fast & Furious spinoff saw a Labor Day holiday gross that pushed it to $8.2 million and now the film’s domestic total has hit $159 million. Even though it won’t match its $200 million budget here, its $684 million worldwide gross ensures we will get more from the Hobbs & Shaw crew.
Rounding out the top 5 is not Overcomer like originally reported, but Ready or Not with $5.8 million, down just 26.7%. The drop is stellar for the horror genre which usually sees drops of 45% or more but I think word of mouth is at play here. The film will get knee-capped by It: Chapter Two this week but the movie is headed for at least $30 million by the end of its run & that’s all on a $6 million budget. Factoring in the Labor Day holiday, the film grossed $6.99 million for the weekend. Since the box office counts the 3-day weekend for placement, the film gets to finish fifth but with the four day holiday, Overcomer did pull ahead on Monday with a gross of $7.7 million with Labor Day factored in. Ready or Not has grossed $21.4 million to date.
Check out the full top ten results below:
| Film | Total | % Change | Gross to Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onward | $10,601,952 | -72.9% | $60.3 |
| Bloodshot | $9,176,695 | NEW | $9.17 |
| I Still Believe | $9,103,614 | NEW | $9.10 |
| The Invisible Man | $5,890,805 | -61.1% | $64.3 |
| The Hunt | $5,304,455 | NEW | $5.3 |
| Sonic the Hedgehog | $2,522,584 | -67.3% | $145.7 |
| The Way Back | $2,356,115 | -71.2% | $13.3 |
| The Call of the Wild | $2,226,720 | -67.1% | $62 |
| Emma. | $1,295,215 | -73% | $9.9 |
| Bad Boys for Life | $1,102,208 | -63.5% | $204.2 |
