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Sony's thriller ‘Don't Breathe’ leads box office for 2nd weekend
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The US Labor Day weekend box office saw Sony's thriller "Don't Breathe" lead the chart with US$15.7 million in estimated sales this weekend, not including Labor Day Monday receipts.
"Don't Breathe" was expected to deal US$19.4 million in tickets by the close of business Labor Day. This US$9.9 million 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 US$51.1 million 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 US$10 million three-day revenue and around US$13 million for four-day weekend. Over five weeks since its release, it has grossed US$297.4 million in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates gathered by comScore.
Internationally, "Suicide Squad" added another US$11.8 million this weekend from other 65 territories, pushing its overseas gross to US$375.5 million and its worldwide gross to over US$672.9 million, much more than its US$175 million budget.
Two animated film came in nearly tied for third and fourth in three-day weekend, "Pete's Dragon" at US$6.47 million and "Kubo And The Two Strings" at US$6.46 million.
The R-rated Sony's comedy "Sausage Party" was in fifth place with US$5.3 million on its fourth three-day weekend of exhibition, and US$88.4 million 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 US$4.5 billion final full season total.
Disney's animated film "Finding Dory" holds the first place in this summer with around US$482 million in North America and US$943 million worldwide. It also leads as the No. 1 animated film of all-time in North America.
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