The summer box office season ends this Labor Day weekend with "Weapons" likely to retake the crown ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Greetings!

My, how time flies. It seems like yesterday that kids were gleefully running out of school, ready to enjoy their summer break. While many of them spent some of that time in theaters, they and the rest of the movie-going public didn't spend as much time there as Hollywood would've liked.

It's been an unremarkable stretch for Hollywood, with the live-action "Lilo & Stitch" and "Jurassic World Rebirth" the only real unmitigated successes. Even "Superman," which had a lot of momentum in the U.S., fell short of expectations overseas.

Next week, Jeremy Fuster will have a more comprehensive overview of how the summer box office performed. For now, his lead story takes a look at how the season is expected to end quietly this Labor Day weekend.

Roger Cheng
Managing Editor of Business and PRO
roger.cheng@thewrap.com

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A QUIET LABOR DAY

You know it's going to be a lackluster weekend when "Weapons," a film that came out on Aug. 8, is expected to retake the pole position at the box office. The film was displaced last weekend by the one-off singalong event screenings of Netflix's "KPop Demon Hunters," but faces competition that isn't expected to mount much of a challenge.

Leading the pack of newcomers is Darren Aronofsky's "Caught Stealing," starring Austin Butler, followed by "The Roses," an adaptation of the 1981 novel "War of the Roses" starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman.

Since theaters reopened in the wake of the pandemic in 2021, the Labor Day weekend box office exceeded the $100 million mark three out of the four years. It's not expected to do so this weekend.

DON'T MISS

The Toronto International Film Festival doesn't start until next week, but Umberto Gonzales and Drew Taylor have rounded up the 13 buzziest titles. There's optimism going in that the activity will pick up compared to last year, when things slowed considerably. In the lineup is a Steven Soderbergh drama, a wordless action movie and the latest from Sydney Sweeney.

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