With Monday marking the final day of the season, the summer box office is running about dead even with the last year's $4.48 billion, according to comScore. As of Jul 31, summer box office had totalled $3.33 billion and was down 4.8 percent from the 2015 box office at the same point. But one of the strongest Augusts on record, led by Warner Bros' "Suicide Squad" and bolstered by "Don't Breathe", Sony's "Sausage Party" and STX's "Bad Moms", brought the business back to life, noted Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore. "Don't Breathe" has taken in $55 million in its first 11 days and is already in profit for Sony, thanks its price tag of less than $10 million. "Don't Breathe" and "Suicide Squad" pushed the overall Labour Day box office to $126 million, up $9 million from a year ago when the second weekend of "War Room" led with $13.4 million.

Source: bd News24 September 06, 2016 19:30 UTC