Sunday, September 10, 2017

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the movie box office weekends


Sources:  Daily Mail, Variety

Yet as Variety points out, "It" was able to set some box-office records this weekend during the approach of a 'record-setting Hurricane Irma'.
“It” broke out on Thursday night with $13.5 million preview number — the third-largest for 2017, trailing only Disney’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and “Beauty and the Beast,” and the largest gross for a [1] horror movie, an [2] R-rated title, a [3] September release and a [4] film based on a Stephen King book.  [numbers added]

Related reading:
Summer Box Office Officially Worst in Over a Decade.  (Variety, 9/5/2017)

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