Box Office: 'The Kitchen' Bombs While 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' Impresses | THR News - video Dailymotion

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The dog days of summer have hit the box office hard. Not even the star-power trio of Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisbeth Moss could save 'The Kitchen,' which bombed this weekend.

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00:00Our husbands have 24 months left on her sentences.

00:03Sorry, baby.

00:05This is the Irish mob. Organized crime.

00:07The dog days of summer have hit the box office hard.

00:10Not even the star-powered trio of Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elizabeth Moss

00:14could save the kitchen when it bombed this weekend.

00:17I can see you got brains, and I know you got money.

00:20But we got one thing that you don't.

00:24We got criminals.

00:25The only new title to impress was Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,

00:28which opened to $20.8 million.

00:32You don't read the book. The book reads you.

00:36The scary flick placed second behind Holdover, Hobson Shaw.

00:39Meanwhile, Dora and the Lost City of Gold came in third with a subdued $17 million.

00:44We're gonna die out here. There's no need to overreact.

00:47Ah! Ah! Get it off! Get it off!

00:51But the kitchen went up in flames, grossing only $5.5 million to come in at number 7.

00:56It marked one of studio Warner Brothers' lowest openings in recent times,

01:00and a career-worst start for McCarthy and Haddish.

01:03Adult skewing films opening nationwide have burned out quickly this summer.

01:06Exceptions include Quentin Tarantino's star-studded Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,

01:10the only original 2019 summer movie to cross $100 million domestically after opening nationwide in late July.

01:17For the latest box office news and numbers, head to THR.com.

01:20Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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