Horror film Don’t Breathe continues $15.7m hold on U.S. box office

The Disney remake pulled in another $6.5 million this weekend, giving it an excellent hold of 13%, but it’s too little too late, at least on the domestic side.

The DreamWorks drama The Light Between the Oceans, starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, debuted with a modest $5m a day after it premiered at the Venice film festival. Universal will handle future releases under a deal signed past year between DreamWorks Studios, Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment, and Entertainment One.

The new horror film Don’t Breathe won its second weekend in a row at the box office with an additional $15.7 million gross! Updated Labor Day numbers will be reported Monday.

Morgan, a sci-fi horror thriller targeting younger consumers, earned a dismal $2 million from 2,011 theaters for a projected four-day gross of $2.4 million, putting it at No. 18. Made for $175 million, Suicide Squad stars Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, Cara Delevingne, Adam Beach, and Karen Fukuhara. Unadjusted for inflation, it is now actor Will Smith’s second-highest grossing film of his almost 30-year career in the entertainment industry, trailing just under $10 million behind 1996 blockbuster Independence Day’s $306.2 million total.

“The Light Between Oceans”, which carries a $20 million production budget, is directed by Derek Cianfrance from his own script based on the M.L. Stedman novel. The animated-film has now grossed $64.22M in four-weeks, not the best that Disney has seen but still rather successful. The story follows a group of scientists who create Morgan (Taylor-Joy), a being with superhuman qualities.

“Morgan” is a low-risk proposition for Fox with a skimpy $6 million budget.

This week the drama “The Light Between Oceans” and the horror-thriller “Morgan” hit the box-office, but neither film found much success. The R-rated Don’t Breathe, about an ill-considered attempt to burglarize the home of a blind man, is on pace to make $19.4m over the four-day holiday weekend. Its expected to take in $5.8 million for the four-day Labor Day weekend, putting its domestic total at $16 million to pass up Love & Friendship ($14 million).

Also beginning its holiday expansion yesterday, The Weinstein Co’s Hands of Stone expanded to 1,524 theaters and will expand even further, into 2,011 theaters starting Friday as it hopes to improve on its $1.75 million opening last weekend from 810 theaters. The modern-day Western earned $4.5 million for the three days as it moved into 1,030 theaters.