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If you think this weekend is bad, historically the post-Labor Day weekend is even worse
In the past decade (2001-2010), the post-Labor Day weekend had seen a high of $76.2m and a low of $50.3m for the combined gross of top 12 movies, with the average being $61.9m, and in 4 of last 5 years, it was the worst weekend of the year. Outside Emily Rose, 2 Resident Evil and 1 Tyler Perry films, no other films opened to $15m+; in fact, outside those four, only 1 broke $11.4m - 3:10 to Yuma.
If you think this weekend is bad, historically the post-Labor Day weekend is even worse Aug 26, 23:10
But Contagion is tracking very good and it opens that weekend. {nm} Aug 26, 23:11
Is it? I would still rather believe in the historical trend though, and currently the 2 bigger openers of that weekend Aug 26, 23:21
Was there MTC tracking for CONTG? I couldn't find it ... or does that come tomorrow? {nm} Aug 27, 00:28
MTC is normally the Monday of opening (or Tuesday in this case cause of Labor Day) {nm} Aug 27, 00:30
ta ... still a ways to go then {nm} Aug 27, 00:34
I'm all about Contagion. This looks way better than Outbreak and I loved that movie. {nm} Aug 27, 00:18
Fun Fact: Outbreak was directed by Wolfgang Peterson, the director of The Neverending Story. {nm} Aug 27, 01:22
That wasn't the weekend of the blackout then... it was the weekend Freddy vs. Jason opened. {nm} Aug 27, 06:06
We are getting into the lopp of a film can adjust to under 2 Aug 27, 06:34
there are so many typos and missing words I'm not even going to try to fix {nm} Aug 27, 06:35