THE WEEKEND WARRIOR Early Edition January 17, 2025

Box Office Analysis for WOLF MAN, ONE OF THEM DAYS, SEPTEMBER 5

It’s the first extended four-day holiday of the year, this one to celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr, the legendary civil rights leader who was so active in the ‘60s to get African-Americans treated more fairly. It makes sense that the United States would give him his own holiday to celebrate his birth, and it’s become a

This week we have three new wide releases… supposedly. Two of them are definite, that being Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man and the Sony comedy One of Them Days, but Paramount is supposed to expand the critically-acclaimed September 5 wide, and other awards contenders could try to sneak into more theaters, such as the Golden Globe-winning The Brutalist. Unfortunately, the studios doing these platform releases are being skittish about sharing theater counts, a trend that has gotten quite frustrating over the past few months and doesn’t allow the type of accuracy of information that I prefer.

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