Though the box office slump continues, it looks like the worst is over.
The weekend’s 48.5 million overall box office is the fourth worst of the year, but it’s around a 13 increase from last weekend’s 42.3 million, which was the year’s second worst weekend and may turn out to be the season’s weakest.
This weekend is the first in September to perform better than the same weekend last year, which had an MCU title at the head of the month with little else to follow, and the buzz on Don’t Worry Darling suggests that next weekend should see more growth.
Of course, these low overall numbers are still bleak (keep in mind no pre-pandemic weekend dropped below 60 million since 2001), and the numbers will remain ugly until Halloween Ends opens in four weekends from now, but after seven of the past ten weekends declining, any improvement is a decent sign.
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