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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/5\/23338141\/national-cinema-day-jaws-box-office<\/a>
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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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