The only thing hotter than this heatwave is Amazon’s stock right now! (Subject to change at every single second.) But Jeff Bezos is clearly taking all that money and putting it in his pocket rather than in new Amazon Prime Original series and movies, as August is another quiet month for the streaming service’s new
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Update: CBS Films/eOne/Lionsgate’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark racked up $2.33M at 2,500 locations that began at 7PM. How front-loaded will the Andre Ovredal-directed PG-13 spooky film be? Tracking heading into the weekend had Scary and Dora colliding as they aim to grab young teen girls with $15M-$17M apiece. But Paramount’s live action take of the famed
Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw isn’t going anywhere, and they’ll stay put in No. 1 this coming weekend with $28M-$30M, a decline somewhere between -50% and -53%. This as five wide entries flood the market including Paramount/Nickelodeon/Walden Media/MRC’s storied IP Dora and the Lost City of Gold, CBS Films/eOne/Lionsgate’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Disney/Fox’s The