Theater counts: October kicks off with Halloween classic Hocus Pocus
October 1, 2020
While still headlining the box office charts, Warner Bros. continues to keep quiet on both box office numbers and location counts for Tenet. Disney is re-releasing the Halloween classic Hocus Pocus, which turns 27 this year, and arrives in 2,570 theaters as a special October release. That’s a step up from the 2,097 venues that played the re-release of The Empire Strikes Back last weekend. There are no new wide releases this weekend, with Save Yourselves! being the highest debuting film, opening in 388 locations. We are still awaiting counts for The Last Shift and The Broken Hearts Gallery, but will update accordingly when they are announced.
Here are the numbers…
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Theater Counts for weekend of October 2 - October 4
Movie Distributor Theaters Previous
TheatersChange Tenet Warner Bros 2,830 2,830 Hocus Pocus Walt Disney 2,570 The New Mutants Walt Disney 2,154 2,305 -151 Unhinged Solstice Studios 2,023 2,182 -159 Infidel Cloudburst Entertainment 1,792 1,885 -93 Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back Walt Disney 1,675 2,097 -422 Shortcut Gravitas Ventures 655 600 +55 Kajillionaire Focus Features 547 529 +18 Save Yourselves! Bleecker Street 388 new Words on Bathroom Walls Roadside Attractions 314 797 -483 The Personal History of David Copperfield Searchlight Pictures 285 512 -227 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Paramount Pictures 215 250 -35 Bill & Ted Face the Music United Artists 207 353 -146 The Secrets We Keep Bleecker Street 113 449 -336 A Call to Spy IFC Films 75 new