https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/movies/hollywood-summer-box-office-movie-ticket-sales.html
To find a slower summer, you have to go back to 1995, when “Apollo 13” and “Pocahontas” were top draws, according to Box Office Mojo, an online database. After adjusting for inflation, the summer of 1995 had about $3.76 billion in ticket sales.
Recent days were particularly terrible. Friday to Sunday, theaters in North America sold about $74.7 million in tickets, a 25 percent decline from the same period last year. With no new wide releases, the No. 1 draw was again “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” (Lionsgate), which collected an estimated $10.3 million, for a three-week total of $55 million.
The only new offering was the long-gestating drama “Tulip Fever,” which the Weinstein Company released with little fanfare in 765 theaters. That poorly reviewed film arrived to a dismal $1.2 million in ticket sales. Audiences also ignored the 40th anniversary rerelease of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (Sony), which took in about $1.8 million in 901 theaters.