Last year Labor Day was a huge boost for the box office. Thanks to the shameless remake of Halloween it was the first time that the top ten movies of the four day weekend yielded more than $100 million. This year some of the movies opening for Labor Day are no less shameless but are enjoying much less attention and ticket sales (and thank goodness for that...I've been getting tired of movies like Disaster Movie making gobs of cash). In fact, this holiday weekend has seen seen the lowest totals since 2004's dismal turn out.
Tropic Thunder was lucky enough to float on top of everything else for one last weekend making it three weekends at the top. Despite that it's still struggling to hit the break even mark for its budget. Meanwhile other newcomers this weekend gave very little competition, living up to their miserable reviews by making minimal cash. For a more in depth look at the performance of this weekend's new releases and the three day weekend numbers read up here. For the four day holiday numbers, check out the chart below.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
Labor Day Weekend, 2008 |
LW = Last Week WR = Weeks Released
THTRS = Number of Screens
* Denotes new release.
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| 1. | Tropic Thunder | $14,300,000 - Total: $86,634,000 | LW: 1 WR: 3 THTRS: 3473 |
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| 2. | Babylon A.D. * | $12,000,000 - Total: $12,000,000 | LW: N WR: 1 THTRS: 3390 |
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| 3. | The Dark Knight | $11,025,000 - Total: $504,696,000 | LW: 4 WR: 7 THTRS: 2750 |
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| 5. | Traitor * | $10,000,000 - Total: $11,501,000 | LW: N WR: 1 THTRS: 2054 |
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| 6. | Death Race | $8,195,000 - Total: $25,044,000 | LW: 3 WR: 2 THTRS: 2537 |
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| 8. | Mamma Mia! | $5,786,000 - Total: $132,877,000 | LW: 8 WR: 7 THTRS: 1968 |
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