The summer’s biggest blockbusters opened huge, and “held” audience, week to week, weekend to weekend.

As front loaded as “Toy Story 5”(not far under $500 million), “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” (way over $700, closing on $800) and “The Odyssey” (just cleared $500 million, and counting) seemed when they opened, it’s that staying power that’s paid off.

“Spider Man: Brand New Day” to dropped about 50% , weekend to weekend, and cleared $70 million on this its third weekend of release. And Christopher Nolan’s biggest hit, “The Odyssey,” is dropping only 27-30% weekend to weekend, adding $23.2 million this fifth weekend of its release.

Whatever hits the early summer provided, 2026 is proving that opening a big film late enough in July can turn August into a bonanza for cinema owners.

Two new releases about dinosaurs dueled for third place. Thee “Twilight Zone”/Spielberg-inspired “The End of Oak Street” showed some muscle, on track to clear $21 million.“Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie” is a late summer animated break from the “Toy Story/Minions” parade just cleared $20 million for fourth place..

Other reviews I’ve glanced at for “Oak Street” seem to be awash in lowered expectations, with critics relishing the chance to bash “Jurassic” movies and Spielberg outings that they almost certainly raved about when they came out. Nonsense. At least we all agree that Anne Hathaway sells the reality of this wormhole in time tale, delivering a terrified face that even her “Devil Wears Prada” co-star Ms. Streep would have trouble matching.

The surprise in fifith place is a girlgroup celebration doc, “Katsye: Wild Hearts” did a middle $3.95 million, good enough for fifth place in the slack season for new releases.

“Six: The Musical Live” is a bit of filmed theater that managed sixth with a $3 million take.

The Reagan/Gorbachev nuclear-de-escalation drama “The Brink of War” from Angel Studios, starring Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris, is pulling in $2.68 million or so from aged Reagan fans. That’s good enough to seat it in a Dog Days of August top ten (seventh). I ducked into a showing of it to see if I wanted to sit through the entire thing and thought “Meh.” Reviews have been mixed to poor on that one.

“Toy Story 5” $2.3 million) spent most of the summer in the top five and is still doing eighth place business.

“One Night Only” earns another week in the top ten with a $2 million tally, good enough for ninth placeo back in session.

And “Vishwanath & Sons,” a dramedy import from the subcontinent, cracked the top ten with a $1.6 million opening weekend. As loyal as that audience is, if I was an urban theater owner, I’d want an Indian title every week, a new anime every month and maybe two horror titles a month for good measure.

“Moana” and “Super Troopers 3,” “The Invite,” “Hadestown” and “Obsession” are driftig out of the top ten and into the summer sunset.