wp-plugin-hostgator domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114ol-scrapes domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/5\/23338141\/national-cinema-day-jaws-box-office<\/a> This Saturday was dubbed \u201cNational Cinema Day<\/a>,\u201d in which theaters around the US cut their ticket prices to $3 in an effort to keep bringing people back to the movie theater. And it worked! More than 8.1 million people went to the movies on Saturday, Variety <\/em>found<\/a>, compared to 1 million the day before and 1.7 million the day after. National Cinema Day brought the biggest crowds to theaters of any day in 2022, which leads to one inevitable conclusion: people will go to movies when movies only cost three bucks. Who knew!<\/p>\n One thing not needed to get the butts back in the seats? New movies. August has been a month-long movie doldrums, the result of so many pandemic shutdowns and general supply chain issues. Tom Cruise always has the answer, though: the top grosser of the day was Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>, which added about $6 million to its box office haul over the long weekend. (Cruise and co. have been keeping theaters afloat all summer, actually, bringing in $698 million overall since the movie\u2019s release in May.) Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>which came out last Christmas, took second place in the box office. The best-performing new movie this weekend \u2014 Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.<\/em> \u2014 came in at #14<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the real dark horse, the shark in the water nobody saw coming, was a little flick you might have heard of called Jaws. <\/em>Playing in theaters around the country, the movie made about $2.6 million over the three-day weekend. That put it 10th for the weekend, just behind Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero<\/em> and just ahead of Where The Crawdads Sing<\/em>. (Like I said, it\u2019s not a banner moment for movies.) On a per-theater basis, Jaws <\/em>actually outperformed every other movie in theaters this weekend. Not bad for a movie that originally hit theaters in 1975 \u2014 and only made about $7 million its opening weekend.<\/p>\n
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