August 2018 has proven to be much better than last year, but is still delivering just the twelfth largest grosses for the month to date since 2000.
This, despite the fact every weekend this month has significantly outperformed the same weekend last year thanks to performances that include Warner Bros.’s The Meg and Crazy Rich Asians, along with Paramount’s late-July release of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which remains the month’s top performer.
This weekend a couple of typical late-August releases in Stx’s The Happytime Murders and Global Road’s A.X.L.
hit theaters as the summer movie season begins to wind down, but most attention will remain on the weekend’s holdovers.
After a strong start last week and news already this week that Warner Bros.
and director Jon Chu are developing a sequel, look for Crazy Rich Asians to once again top the weekend box office.
Not only are audiences turning out to see the film,
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