so hardly anyone showed up in theatres honk for jesus save your soul a megachurch satire starring regina hall and sterling k brown crashlanded in 14th place with 144 million from 1882 theatres nbcuniversal the studios parent company didnt reveal streaming metrics by monday its expected to reach 175 million lucky for focus features which bought the wellreviewed movie at the sundance film festival for 85 million its hybrid release on peacock will help mitigate the films dismal theatrical run reviews are very good but the film is not connecting theatrically says david a gross who runs the movie consulting firm franchise entertainment research during the last two years movies released simultaneously in theatres and on streaming have underperformed at the box office thats part of whats happening oddly enough given the top two films in the country were months old this saturday ranked as the highestattended day of the year according to the national association of theater owners thats because sept 3 was national cinema day which brought out an estimated 81 million people as more than 3000 theatres across the country slashed the price of admission participants including major chains like amc and regal charged just 3 to any movie in any format far less expensive than the countrys average ticket price the heavily discounted prices may have increased attendance and popcorn sales but it didnt do much to boost overall revenues over the traditionally slow labor day weekend in 2021 disneys shangchi and the legend of the ten rings set a labor day weekend record with 94 million this year the collective box office tally for every film in theatres is closer to 50 million of course its tougher than usual to compare because of saturdays markdown with national cinema day we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing said cinema foundation president jackie brenneman this event outstripped our biggest expectations the idea of the day was to thank moviegoers for an amazing summer and now we have to thank them for this amazing day given the domestic box office wasteland holdovers bullet train dc league of superpets and the invitation rounded out the top five on box office charts sonys bullet train is aiming for third place with 54 million from 3117 locations dropping only 10 from last weekend for the fourday holiday weekend its expected to bring in 68 million after five weeks of release the brad pittled bullet train has generated a solid 866 million to date theres also a chance that warner bros animated dc league of superpets could take the no 3 spot based on estimates the family film added 54 million from 3115 locations and looks to close the labor day holiday weekend with roughly 6 million so far dc league of superpets has earned 809 million and finally the invitation which topped the box office last weekend tumbled to fifth place with 47 million from 3114 cinemas by monday its expected to earn 57 million taking ticket sales to