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That is how Sony's creepy thriller The Invitation managed to top box office charts with a paltry US$7 million. Its win comes with some pretty weak bragging rights; it's the lowest first-place finish since May 2021, when COVID was keeping people at home.

Now, it's not the pandemic that's preventing audiences from going to theatres, it's the lack of appealing options. Overall, the domestic box office generated just US$54 million over the weekend, the worst collective result in months.

And the bad times are expected to continue until at least late September or early October, when Don't Worry Darling (Sep 23), Halloween Ends (Oct 14) and the comic book adaptation Black Adam (Oct 21) open in theatres. It's a disappointing finale to an otherwise strong summer at the movies, which fielded plenty of box office hits including Top Gun: Maverick, Minions: The Rise Of Gru, Thor: Love And Thunder and Elvis.

Over the weekend, two other films – director George Miller's R-rated dark fantasy Three Thousand Years Of Longing and the John Boyega-led heist drama Breaking – also opened in cinemas to middling results.