With no new product in the marketplace, a rerelease of the 1993 Halloween cult classic Hocus Pocus was almost able to banish Christopher Nolan's Tenet and take the top spot at the weekend box office with a mere $2 million.
That's a stat no one wants to read, considering this was to have been the weekend that Wonder Woman 1984 unfurled. But, like numerous other fall tentpoles, the superhero sequel relocated out of concern that moviegoers aren't ready to return to the multiplex amid the ongoing pandemic.
That has forced cinema owners to rely on a diet of holdovers like Tenet— which launched over a month ago — smaller indie fare and rereleases, such as Disney's Hocus Pocus.
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