Theater Counts: Don’t Breathe Starts in 3,051 Theaters
August 25, 2016
A horror movie getting genuinely good reviews leads the new releases into theaters this weekend. Don’t Breathe is expected to top the chart, and is helped by its debut in 3,051 locations, easily the most among the new releases. Mechanic: Resurrection is playing in 2,258 moviehouses, which will likely translate into a struggle at the box office. It could end up neck-and-neck with Southside with You at the box office this weekend. The Obama date dramatization opens in 811 venues, about the same as Hands of Stone (we don’t have an official count for that one yet). Hands of Stone is expected to be slightly behind that pack at the box office.
Looking ahead to next weekend, we have another group of muted openings. Morgan is expected to play in 2,000 or so theaters and The Light Between Oceans in 1,500. Neither figure suggests much confidence in the performance of the films at the box office.
Theater Counts for Weekend of August 26
Movie | Distributor | Theaters | Previous Theaters | Change |
Suicide Squad | Warner Bros. | 3,582 | 3,924 | -342 |
Kubo and the Two Strings | Focus Features | 3,279 | 3,260 | +19 |
War Dogs | Warner Bros. | 3,258 | 3,258 | 0 |
Pete's Dragon | Walt Disney | 3,244 | 3,702 | -458 |
Sausage Party | Sony Pictures | 3,135 | 3,103 | +32 |
Ben Hur | Paramount Pictures | 3,084 | 3,084 | 0 |
Don't Breathe | Sony Pictures | 3,051 | | new |
Bad Moms | STX Entertainment | 2,565 | 2,811 | -246 |
Jason Bourne | Universal | 2,445 | 2,887 | -442 |
Mechanic: Resurrection | Lionsgate | 2,258 | | new |
The Secret Life of Pets | Universal | 2,091 | 2,404 | -313 |
Florence Foster Jenkins | Paramount Pictures | 1,324 | 1,528 | -204 |
Star Trek Beyond | Paramount Pictures | 1,277 | 1,966 | -689 |
Hell or High Water | Lionsgate | 909 | 472 | +437 |
Southside with You | Roadside Attractions | 813 | | new |
Hands of Stone | Weinstein Co. | 810 | | new |
Lights Out | Warner Bros. | 603 | 942 | -339 |
Nine Lives | EuropaCorp | 532 | 1,364 | -832 |
Ice Age: Collision Course | 20th Century Fox | 455 | 782 | -327 |
Nerve | Lionsgate | 455 | 859 | -404 |
Ghostbusters | Sony Pictures | 434 | 788 | -354 |
The Jungle Book | Walt Disney | 352 | 152 | +200 |
Finding Dory | Walt Disney | 345 | 450 | -105 |
The Legend of Tarzan | Warner Bros. | 288 | 338 | -50 |
The BFG | Walt Disney | 235 | 207 | +28 |
Café Society | Lionsgate | 216 | 271 | -55 |
Central Intelligence | Warner Bros. | 206 | 256 | -50 |
Indignation | Roadside Attractions | 172 | 317 | -145 |
Greater | Hammond Entertainment | 134 | | new |
Hunt for the Wilderpeople | The Orchard | 100 | 125 | -25 |
Captain America: Civil War | Walt Disney | 93 | 117 | -24 |
Remember the Goal | Five & Two Pictures | 78 | | new |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Paramount Pictures | 73 | 85 | -12 |
Space Dogs: Adventure to the Moon | Epic Pictures Group | 43 | | new |
Gleason | Open Road | 35 | 56 | -21 |
Time Raiders | Asia Releasing | 31 | | new |
A Tale of Love and Darkness | Focus World | 25 | 2 | +23 |
Alice Through the Looking Glass | Walt Disney | 25 | 44 | -19 |
Love & Friendship | Roadside Attractions | 20 | 15 | +5 |
In Order of Disappearance | Magnolia Pictures | 6 | | new |
Mia Madre | Music Box Films | 6 | | new |
Our Kind of Traitor | Roadside Attractions | 5 | 9 | -4 |
Howards End | Cohen Media Group | 3 | | new |
Fatima | Kino Lorber | 1 | | new |
Note: New theater counts are added as studios report throughout the day on Thursday
Estimates for Weekend of September 2
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