--- title: 'Don't Breathe' Dominates Late Summer Box Office description: Late summer horror movie Don't Breathe lapped up about $26.1 million this weekend, nearly tripling the $10 million production costs canonical: https://time.com/4469979/box-office-dont-breathe/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-28T19:18:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:14:33.758Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Don't Breathe' Dominates Late Summer Box Office With $26.1 Million og:description: It pushed 'Suicide Squad' to second place og:url: https://time.com/4469979/box-office-dont-breathe/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69fed4e603005d4a/6988a3a7196cf4c04503cf67/dont-breathe-scene-review.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jane Levy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Don't Breathe' Dominates Late Summer Box Office With $26.1 Million twitter:description: It pushed 'Suicide Squad' to second place twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69fed4e603005d4a/6988a3a7196cf4c04503cf67/dont-breathe-scene-review.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Don't Breathe_ Dominates Late Summer Box Office With $26.1 Million by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 28, 2016 7:18 PM UTC  Jane Levy stars in Screen Gems' horror-thriller "Don't Breathe." Jane Levy stars in Screen Gems' horror-thriller "Don't Breathe."Gordon Timpen—Sony Pictures by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 28, 2016 7:18 PM UTC Late summer horror movie _Don’t Breathe_ inhaled about $26.1 million this weekend, nearly tripling the $10 million production costs. The film follows a group of thieves whose attempt to rob a blind man’s goes awry when he pits them in a cat-and-mouse-game. The thriller pushed [_Suicide Squad_](http://time.com/4447995/suicide-squad-move-review/), which took in $12.1 million this week, to second place at the box office. Other new releases, including _Mechanic: Resurrection_ and _Southside with You_ debuted modestly, making $7.5 million and $3.1 million, respectively. _Kubo and the Two Strings_, which made $7.8 million and _Sausage Party_, which made $7.7 million, took third and fourth place at the box office this weekend, with _Pete’s Dragon_ at fifth, with $7.3 million. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4469979/box-office-dont-breathe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4469979/box-office-dont-breathe/"},"headline":"Don't Breathe Dominates Late Summer Box Office With $26.1 Million","datePublished":"2016-08-28T19:18:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:14:33.758Z","description":"It pushed 'Suicide Squad' to second place","url":"https://time.com/4469979/box-office-dont-breathe/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69fed4e603005d4a/6988a3a7196cf4c04503cf67/dont-breathe-scene-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69fed4e603005d4a/6988a3a7196cf4c04503cf67/dont-breathe-scene-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jane Levy","caption":"Jane Levy stars in Screen Gems' horror-thriller \"Don't Breathe.\"","creditText":"Gordon Timpen—Sony Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4469979/box-office-dont-breathe/","name":"Don't Breathe Dominates Late Summer Box Office With $26.1 Million"}}]}] ```