Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 6.2.2024
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  OPENINGS: The major studios abandoned this normally prime summer-season weekend, and a flood of indies rushed in to grab the available theaters. None were able to capitalize to a particularly notable extent, with the anime HAIKYUU: THE DUMPSTER BATTLE (Crunchyroll/Sony) faring best at $3.5M. The genre is typically very frontloaded, so Haikyuu may not […]

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