Movie Preview: August 2026

Welcome to the final month of the summer! Or, well… welcome to nearly halfway through the final month of the summer, that is. Apologies for a delayed post. Real summer got in the way with family, friends, and all that fun stuff. That said, the first weekend of the month (July 31-August 2) I actually covered in my July preview because the weekend started on the final weekend of July, while the first full weekend of August (August 7-9) was dominated by the same headlines that dominated most of July: “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey.” So let’s recap what happened here…

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” not only exceeded expectations, but soared past them, breaking the opening weekend record previously set by “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019, leaving many pondering on how a solo Spider-Man film toppled the culmination of the Infinity Saga. The official opening weekend total for “Brand New Day” was $360.1 million, which was $3 million ahead of the $357.1 million total of “Endgame.” And now as of this post’s publication on August 13, it is encroaching on the $2 billion mark globally, as well as nearly $700 million domestically, leaving some wondering if it can top the overall domestic record of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which stands at $936.7 million. Meanwhile in the world of Christopher Nolan, “The Odyssey” was the highest opening weekend domestically for an R-rated film not named Deadpool, while also being the highest opening weekend for Nolan not named Batman. Its total global earnings are now over $1.1 billion, becoming Nolan’s highest grossing film ever, Batman or not, shattering all sorts of IMAX records in the process.

So yeah, you can say it’s been an excellent few weeks at the box office. This led July to hit the billion-dollar mark at the domestic box office, making it the third month in a row. “Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” are currently carrying August to hit the same mark as well, especially since Spider-Man only had one day in July. If they succeed at this, it will be the first summer ever where all four summer months hit the $1 billion mark. It’s also the first summer with three different summer movies that have earned at least $400 million domestically, with “Toy Story 5” being the other one. The final historical mark is that the best overall summer at the domestic box office is the summer of 2013, with $4.754 billion. Currently we are at $4.013 billion as of me publishing this, with four weekends left – the final three weekends of August and the first weekend of September, because Box Office Mojo, which tracks these records, counts through Labor Day weekend, not just through the end of August.

With all this historical context in mind, we now track the remainder of August, while recapping that first full weekend. Even though the biggest blockbusters of the summer are in the rearview mirror, there are a lot of titles to talk about in August for those looking for additional theatrical trips. Are any of these movies sleeper hits waiting to happen? Can any of them knock Spider-Man off its perch at the weekend box office? Let’s dive in and check it out!

As always, release date information for this post is courtesy of the-numbers.com and boxofficepro.com. With both sites having their own challenges this year, which I’ve mentioned often, I do my best to look at other sources as well in order to provide the most accurate information. All this said, the movies listed in this post are the movies currently slated for a wide release in the United States and Canada and are always subject to change.

August 7 – 9

Universal's "One Night Only"

As mentioned in the intro, this first full weekend of August was again dominated by “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey.” To put things in perspective, the weekend as a whole earned $202.3 million domestically, with 56 movies reported. Of that, “Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” combined for $175.9 million, which was 86.9 percent of the weekend total. “Brand New Day” specifically earned $144.3 million, a 59.9 percent drop from its opening weekend, nearly identical to the 58.7 percent drop of “Avengers: Endgame” in its second weekend, which means it should remain a good comparison as we move through this preview to see what the bar for the No. 1 spot is each weekend.

There were three new movies that opened in wide release this weekend. Collectively they only made $11.5 million, which was just 5.7 percent of the weekend total. But hey, sometimes the fun of a smaller month like this is to search for the hidden gems that exist in the movie world. The leader of this trio was One Night Only, which earned $5.5 million from 3,012 theaters, good enough for third place on the weekend. This comes from Will Gluck, director of “Anyone But You,” “Easy A” and “Friends with Benefits,” and is a movie that some have referred to as “the sex Purge,” given that the premise involves a futuristic New York City where premarital sex is outlawed, except for one night a year, much like the Purge franchise where all crime is legal for one night a year. A premise of this nature has naturally led to various levels of conversation from a variety of different fronts. A clever premise for a rom-com? A terrible premise? Too political? Too many questions and not enough answers? A premise directly centered around sex, but most of the sex and nudity were edited out of the movie… and is that good or bad? Sometimes controversy leads to curiosity. And August has been a good month for rom-coms recently, as “It Ends With Us” opened to $50 million back in August 2024. But that was not the case with this one. This time, controversy led to very mixed reviews and most audience members didn’t show up.

Coming in just behind “One Night Only” is a trilogy capper of a franchise that you may not have known is now a trilogy, and that is Super Troopers 3. The original “Super Troopers” is an absurdist comedy following a group of goofy cops who spend more time playing pranks and goofing off than enforcing the law. This until they get forced into an actual murder investigation that forces them to actually do their job, which is easier said than done when they’re not taken seriously. The movie was not a huge financial success when it opened back in 2002. It opened to $6.2 million and finished with $18.5 million domestically. It only had a production budget of $1.2 million, so despite not being a huge success, it was profitable based on its budget and became a cult classic following its theatrical run. It took 16 years, but a sequel in 2018 was finally released. Similar story. A production budget of $13.5 million and a final domestic total of $30.6 million, after an opening weekend of $15.2 million. A financial profit, but it didn’t break the bank. Evidence that cult classics that get belated sequels don’t always lead to an increase in box office. And now “Super Troopers 3” had the lowest opening of all of them, with just over $4 million. And that’s with 24 years of ticket price inflation. But hey, fans of this particular police squad now have a whole trilogy of films to enjoy, so that’s a win in its own right.

Speaking of a movie drenched in controversy, the final movie in our trilogy of openers was Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man. Eli Roth has always been a controversial filmmaker. Controversy is basically his middle name. He’s most known for movies like “Cabin Fever,” “Hostel,” and “The Green Inferno,” which are movies that helped coin the term “torture porn,” which is a subgenre of horror focusing heavily on sadistic violence, bodily mutilation, and slow, agonizing pain. The point of the horror in these movies is to show an explicit display of suffering, all of which is present in most of Eli Roth’s films. His recent film, though, was a PG-13 adaptation of the video game “Borderlands,” a movie that wound up as a major flop in 2024. After that disaster, Eli Roth claimed he’s not following any studio notes and is doing things his way. And thus we get “Ice Cream Man,” which is *not* a remake of the 1995 film of the same name, but is basically a movie where kids in a suburban town turn into homicidal maniacs after eating some ice cream from a mysterious ice cream truck, and result in them murdering many of the adults in the town in a very Eli Roth fashion, while the other kids have to figure out what’s going on and how to stop it. Outside of being a naturally controversial Eli Roth torture porn flick, Roth also confirmed that he used generative AI in certain sequences, which added an additional layer of controversy. All of this resulted in an opening just over $2 million from 1,682 theaters.

While those were the only wide releases of the weekend, here’s a quick run through of a decent number of limited release films. The annual cat video festival, titled CatVideoFest 2026, managed to crack the top 10, earning $568,414 from 255 theaters. The Sundance documentary Cookie Queens also had a decent showing, earning $354,262 from 446 theaters. This follows four young girls striving to be a top-seller of Girl Scout Cookies, showcasing the joys and pains of the cookie selling season. It received very high remarks from Sundance viewers. Released in 6 theaters, the biopic Tony opened with a very strong per-theater average of $58,166, totaling $358,995 on the weekend. It’s a biopic about Anthony Bourdain, focusing on his early years of wanting to be a writer, but instead finding a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant. The movie is directed by Matt Johnson and stars Dominic Sessa as Tony, with Antonio Banderas in a highly acclaimed supporting role. Not far behind “Tony” was Teenage Sex and Death and Camp Miasma, opening in 5 theaters for a total of $249,606, a per-theater average of $49,921. This comes from director Jane Schoenbrun, who recently found huge critical success with “I Saw the TV Glow.” The movie is a satirical slasher film following a filmmaker who is hired to direct a new installment in the Camp Miasma franchise. Schoenbrun talked about how the film would engage with the concept of gender deviance seen in such horror classics as “Psycho” and “Silence of the Lambs,” intending on honoring and critiquing those films, while also likening the concept to “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” set in a “Friday the 13th” sequel. Both “Tony” and “Camp Miasma” received high critical acclaim and will be expanded over the course of the month.

August 14 – 16

Warner Bros.' "The End of Oak Street"

It’s a dino showdown in the second full weekend of August as two new dinosaur-themed movies go head to head, battling it out for… second place. After a second weekend total of $144.3 million, Spider-Man is looking at a third weekend in the range of $60-65 million if it continues to follow the trajectory of “Avengers: Endgame,” which earned $63.3 million in its third weekend. As popular as dinosaurs are, the new dino movies aren’t projected to get quite that high.

The first of these two dino movies is Warner Bros. live-action thriller The End of Oak Street. Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as a struggling couple, they wake up one day to find that their entire neighborhood has seemingly been transported into a prehistoric era. Initial teasers were vague at first in regards to what the danger was going to be, which is par for the course given that the producer here is J.J. Abrams and he loves his mystery boxes. But you can’t make a dinosaur movie without revealing to audiences that you made a dinosaur movie, so the full-length trailers pulled back the curtain and revealed that, yes, they are running from dinosaurs. This seemingly calls back to the initial “Jurassic Park” film that portrayed the dinosaurs as scary monsters in a horror movie setting before the franchise devolved into brainless action. As such, the actual writer and director of this movie is David Robert Mitchell, who hasn’t done a whole lot, but did write and direct the widely acclaimed 2014 horror film “It Follows,” so suspense is certainly a thing he is more than capable of pulling off. “The End of Oak Street” has been projected to open in the $15-20 million range, but this has always seemed like something with the potential to break out, even if it’s a notch or two higher at $25-30 million. It beat out the kids movie we’ll talk about here in a second on Thursday and Friday, but Saturday will be key in seeing who wins the full weekend race.

While teens and adults will be out seeing Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor run away from dinosaurs, the kids have their own dinosaur adventure to explore as the PAW Patrol crew takes on dinosaurs in PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie. The title itself here is more or less self-explanatory, but the PAW Patrol lands on a mysterious island that happens to be inhabited by dinosaurs. Although this movie looks like it’s less about them running from dinosaurs and more about them aiming to protect the dinosaurs from the evil humans who are trying to mine the island for its resources. Because dinosaurs are our friends, not our enemies! And not that your kids care about the voice cast in PAW Patrol, but this does feature voice work from the likes of Mckenna Grace, Terry Crews, Jennifer Hudson, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, and even Bill Nye. And as a bonus for the parents, the trailer also advertises that the movie features new music by Backstreet Boys. PAW Patrol has been around as a series for quite some time, initially debuting in August 2013, and currently has 14 seasons and 311 episodes. This current movie will be their third theatrically released movie. “PAW Patrol: The Movie” opened to $13.1 million in August 2021, while “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” nearly doubled that with $22.8 million in September 2023. A $20-25 million opener is thus a fair expectation for this third movie.

There’s actually a lot more coming this weekend than just our dino movie showdown, and I’ll make an attempt to cover it in a readable fashion, but the final theatrically released movie opening in wide release this weekend is Angel Studios’ The Brink of War. Earlier this summer, Angel Studios had some good luck with “Young Washington,” which opened to $19.4 million around the 4th of July weekend and has made $46.9 million domestically so far. And now they’re trying their luck again with another U.S. President, this time Ronald Reagan in the 80s as he meets with Mikhail Gorbachev of Russia. The specific year is 1986 and the event depicted in the movie is the Reykjavik Summit, where Reagan and Gorbachev met in Iceland to discuss arms control, a meeting that eventually led to the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. In this movie, Jeff Daniels plays Reagan, while Jared Harris plays Gorbachev, in a movie directed by Michael Russell Gunn in his feature directorial debut. The obvious thing here is that Reagan is not George Washington and Cold War politics is not going to draw in the same crowd as 1700s U.S. history prior to the Revolutionary War, so the prognosis on this one is not as high as “Young Washington” as it looks to slip into the more traditional opening range of $3-5 million for Angel Studios releases.

In the previous paragraph, I mentioned that “The Brink of War” is the final theatrically released movie opening in wide release this weekend. And I use that specific wording because opening in 1,461 theaters this weekend is SIX: The Musical Live!, which is a theatrically released filmed stage production. “SIX” is a British musical that is a modern retelling of the lives of the six wives of Henry VIII, presented in the form of a singing competition and pop concert where the six wives take turns telling their stories to determine who suffered the most, ultimately seeking to reclaim their individual identities and rewrite their stories. The musical initially premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, performed by studios from Cambridge University. Two years later, it premiered in West End in January 2019, then later on Broadway in February 2020, quickly taking a hiatus due to COVID before coming back in October 2021. In 2022, it was nominated for 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and won Best Original Score and Best Costume Design. There have been a few of these filmed stage productions that have hit theaters, but most recently “Hadestown: The Musical” released in July in between the releases of “The Odyssey” and “Brand New Day,” earning a surprising $10.3 million that weekend, beating out all the other smaller releases that weekend.

While that’s it for wide releases on the weekend, there’s also a whole bunch of moderate releases. We’ll do a speed round through those. In 510 theaters, NEON will be releasing the stoner comedy The Wrong Girls, about two codependent best friends, living paycheck to paycheck and bong road trip to bong road trip, who get caught in a case of mistaken identity. This stars Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat as the two girls, with LaKeith Stanfield, Tony Hale, Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Kate McKinnon, and Cate Blanchett in various supporting roles. Paired along with that will be The Rivals of Amziah King, a neo-Western crime thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Kurt Russell, while introducing Angelina LookingGlass as a woman named Kateri who loses her mother and leaves foster care, reuniting with her former foster parent Amziah King (McConaughey), a beekeeper, musician, and anchor of his community as he fends off threats to his honey business. We also have Nimrods, a coming-of-age road-trip comedy about a group of teenagers who believe their band is opening for Green Day on New Year’s Eve. This movie is based on Green Day’s early limited success as a band before the release of their breakout album “Dookie.” The final moderate release I’ll mention is Your Letter, a South Korean animated film about a bullied girl who transfers schools hoping for peace, but is isolated due to her past trauma until she discovers a series of secret letters around the school, sending her on a mysterious quest to uncover their sender’s true intent. This movie had a festival release as early as 2024 before then opening in South Korea and several other countries in late 2025. It is just now getting a release in the United States by Crunchyroll.

And if none of these eight movies catches your interest, a whole slew of re-releases enter theaters as well. Opening on Friday was Wet Hot American Summer, Your Name, and Train to Busan. On Sunday we’ll see La La Land and Point Break hit theaters again. In between this weekend and next, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that being the original 1974 film, will return to theaters on Wednesday, August 18.

August 21 – 23

Sony's "Insidious: Out of the Further"

This third full weekend of August is the first weekend where we might have a competition for that No. 1 spot at the weekend box office. The fourth weekend of “Avengers: Endgame” came in at $29.9 million. If Spider-Man continues to follow that trajectory, and does indeed hit the $60-65 million range in the previous weekend, that puts it anywhere in the range of $27-35 million. If it happens to start holding a bit better, it could wind up higher in the range of $37-41 million. Either way, we have a franchise horror film coming out this weekend that’s projected as the top opener of the month and those numbers are within striking distance.

That franchise horror film is Insidious: Out of the Further. The Insidious franchise began in 2010, with the first movie being directed by James Wan, written by Leigh Whannell, and produced by Jason Blum, a powerhouse trio in the horror realm. The premise has centered around a purgatory realm called the Further, a place inhabited by the tortured spirits of the deceased. The first film centers around a boy, named Dalton Lambert, who was born with the ability to astral project his consciousness and had been unknowingly doing so in his sleep, which resulted in him being captured in the Further. This then resulted in the spirits in the Further using his body to re-enter the physical realm. Each of the ensuing chapters have centered around this general concept of the Further. “Out of the Further” is the sixth film in the franchise, but the first movie without the Lambert family, the central family in the first, second, and fifth movie – with the third and fourth movies being prequels following Elise Rainer, the psychic in the first movie. Elise Rainer is the lone character returning in “Out of the Further,” with her role as a spirit guide within the Further, guiding our new cast of characters, led by Amelia Eve as Gemma. The contrast here is that, while Dalton’s ability is to project outward into the world of the Further, Gemma’s ability is that she accidentally pulls the entities inward into ours. Box office wise, the franchise’s peak was in 2013, when “Chapter 2” opened to $40.3 million. The two prequels dipped a bit, opening in the $20 million range, while “The Red Door” in 2023 jumped up to $33 million after bringing back the original characters. A new cast of characters could create another dip, but the idea of the spirits coming into our world could also give another boost. Either way, the $25-35 million predicted range is also in the same range as Spider-Man, which could result in a close race.

It wouldn’t be one of these quieter months without a Jason Statham action flick. Whether it be January, April, or August, this is the window he thrives in and he’s got another one for us here with Mutiny. From Jean-François Richet, director of the 2023 Gerard Butler film “Plane,” “Mutiny” has Statham playing Cole Reed, a former marine who is framed for the murder of his billionaire industrialist boss. Now forced to go on the run, Cole works to uncover an international conspiracy and find the people responsible in order to prove his innocence. Classic premise for some punching, kicking, and gunplay from Statham, providing some comfort food in late August for Statham fans or action fans in general. These movies often land in the $5-8 million range, with some like “The Beekeeper” and “A Working Man” hitting the mid-teens. His high for one of these solo action flicks, so not counting franchise films like Fast & Furious or The Expendables, is “The Meg” in August 2018, which was a massive breakout with a $45.4 million opening. With no prehistoric shark for him to battle, this will likely land in his more traditional range.

While “Insidious: Out of the Further” and “Mutiny” are the main attractions this weekend, we’ll do another speed run of a trio of moderate releases. No official theater count estimates for these movies, but I would guess they’re likely to be somewhere in the realm of 500-1,500 theaters, fighting for a spot in the top 10. The first is Black Bear Pictures releasing the comedy Spa Weekend, about a group of four female friends, played by Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Anna Faris, and Michelle Buteau, who decide they are burned out and need a break. They all decide to go on a… wait for it… spa weekend. This is from the director of “Bad Moms” and writers of “The Hangover,” so that style of comedy is what they’re going for here. And speaking of four friends, NEON will be releasing the horror thriller It Ends, also about a group of four friends who decide to leave on a trip. Except their trip isn’t so happy as a wrong turn causes them to be trapped on a never-ending backroad. Their choices are either figure out a way to escape or accept their fate. This movie was released at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2025, was briefly available on the Letterboxd Video Store at the end of 2025, before NEON eventually acquired the rights and got it into general theaters this weekend. The final movie of this weekend sees the future arrive with the sci-fi thriller Hot Spot. Directed by Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska, and distributed by Focus Features, this movie is set in a near future society ruled by sentient A.I. In this realm, a private detective investigates a murder case, only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord, later causing his identity to slowly unravel, sending him into a hypnotic meltdown.

August 28 – 30

Ketchup Entertainment's "Coyote vs. Acme"

The final weekend of August is historically one of the year’s lowest grossing weekends. The summer is over. School has begun. And the box office enters a bit of an awkward phase before the fall movie seasons slowly ramp back up. Movies *can* do good here. But studios mostly prefer not to schedule their main releases. From a forecasting standpoint, that does lead to an interesting race. Our final Spider-Man tracker has it potentially landing in the $17-25 million range. The fifth weekend of “Avengers: Endgame” that we’ve been comparing to was $17.2 million. If it managed to sneak out a win against the latest Insidious movie, it could pull off the full sweep of August by winning a fifth weekend in a row. If it lost the previous weekend, it could retake the top spot as horror sequels almost always have a massive dip in their second weekend. But there’s also two movies this weekend that are forecast to open in this similar range. A four movie race to finish the month? Sounds fun to me!

The first new movie I’ll bring up here is a movie that, quite honestly, is simply happy to exist. This is Ketchup Entertainment’s release of Coyote vs. Acme. On the surface, this is a simple movie with a simple premise. Wile E. Coyote has been around for a very long time, first appearing in 1949, with a long-standing rivalry with the Road Runner. This new movie brings Wile E. back in a live-action/animated hybrid film where he enlists a billboard attorney to sue the Acme Corporation for repeatedly selling him alleged faulty products. This based on the 1990 magazine article from The New Yorker titled “Coyote v. Acme,” by Ian Frazier. It’s a movie that could be a fun introduction of the character to a new generation of kids while also being a healthy dose of nostalgia for adults who grew up watching these characters. For many casual movie fans, this might be where the conversation ends. But for those in the loop, this was a movie previously owned by Warner Bros. before they tossed it in the trash in November 2023 in order to get a tax write-off, like they also did with the likes of “Batgirl” and “Scoob! Holiday Haunt.” Warner Bros. received heavy backlash for these decisions. And while the other two have still not seen the light of day, they reversed course with “Coyote vs. Acme” and opened discussions with other distributors, where Ketchup Entertainment won the rights for $50 million and are now giving it a chance to see the light of day. Box Office Pro has the movie projected to open in the $12-18 million range. That could be boosted by people following this story who want to go support the movie Warner Bros. tried to cancel, hoping to show the studio a lesson to not cancel movies for tax write-offs. But again, regardless of box office, the real win here is that the filmmakers get the opportunity to showcase their movie to the world, which they almost didn’t get.

The other movie in competition this weekend is Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Dog Stars. Given the aforementioned history behind this particular weekend, it’s a little odd to see a new Ridley Scott film dumped into late August. Usually when he has a new movie out, it’s showcased in a prime release spot or being pushed for awards at the end of the season, not quietly dumped into the worst weekend of the year. On the flip side, though, if we’re still in contention to break the all-time summer box office record at this point, having a Ridley Scott film at the end help push us over the finish line is certainly a benefit. The movie stars an all-star cast of Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, Allison Janney, Guy Pearce, and Benedict Wong and is based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Peter Heller. The premise of the film is set in the aftermath of a devastating flu pandemic that has almost wiped out humanity. The story is centered around Hig (Elordi), a civilian pilot living with his dog, and Bangley (Brolin), a hardened former Marine, as they confront outside threats and hold onto the possibility of a better life beyond where they currently live. This does provide an interesting contrast to the book vs. the movie, with the book being released eight years before COVID and the movie being released six years after, but the premise of a world-ending pandemic is nothing new and the question that audiences get to answer is what does this movie bring to the table that perhaps other versions of this premise haven’t. Box Office Pro is projecting this to open in the $18-23 million range, which would put it in a similar range of some of his previous films, notably “House of Gucci” in 2021 ($14.4 million), and “Napoleon” in 2023 ($20.6 million). “Gladiator II” opened much higher in 2024, with $55 million, but that was a big-budgeted sequel to a very popular film opening in the holiday season, so the other two are likely the better comparisons.

Similar to the last two weekends, we’ll finish this with a speed round of potential moderate releases fighting for a spot in the top 10. We’ll begin here with Finding Emily, a British romantic comedy about a lovesick musician who is given the wrong number for his dream girl, so he teams up with another female psychology student to go find her. This was released back in its home country of the U.K. back in May and finally arrives in America here in August. The type of rom-com that in decades past would be a major hit, but in today’s world often ends up on Netflix. Luckily here, “Finding Emily” at least gets a chance in theaters first, even if it’s not likely to be a major hit. The same could be send about this next movie, the dark comedy Idiots. This stars Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. as two rock-bottom drivers who are supposed to be completing the simple task of transporting a wealthy teen to rehab, but their passenger derails their plans and instead leads to a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime. This movie actually came out at Sundance this year, and was under a different title. I’ll let you look that up because the previous title included a curse word that I don’t want to type up, but it’s probably a smart idea to change that for the general public. IFC Entertainment bought the rights out of Sundance and has it scheduled here in August. And finally, we get the horror film from Roadside Attractions, Buddy, which was also a Sundance release this year. This is about a group of children stuck in a 90s style children’s TV show that’s obviously trying to emulate Barney. Instead of a big purple dinosaur, it’s a friendly, cuddly orange unicorn. And all is happy and well until some of them realize they can’t get out or remember their past and suddenly the facade starts to crack and maybe Buddy isn’t so friendly and cuddly after all. Both of these Sundance films received positive remarks, as has “Finding Emily” after already being released overseas, so they will provide good, late August options.

Last but not least, one of the all-time classic films will be hitting theaters again, that being Terminator 2: Judgment Day. So if any of these films doesn’t spark any curiosity, there’s also the option of enjoying “T2” in theaters. And on the note of re-releases, Fathom Entertainment will also be re-releasing Castle in the Sky on August 22. And as mentioned towards the beginning of this post, both “Tony” and “Teenage Sex and Death and Camp Miasma” will be getting wide expansions as the month goes on. Either this weekend or the previous weekend, those will likely be options to check out as well.