Why This August Will Be A Great Month for Movies

[NelsonG]

Poor August. Statistically, when it comes to the summer movie season, everything is pretty front-loaded. The biggest movies arrive in May, then sort of trickle in throughout June and July. But when we hit August it's a total crapshoot, full of movies that never seem like they belong anywhere on the movie calendar. It's almost as if they're orphan movies, destined to live out their theatrical dreams at the very end of a big season when people aren't really paying attention.  Things are changing for August, though, much in the same way they're changing for February, another so-called throwaway month that's played host to runaway hits like Deadpool and The Lego Movie of late. These months are becoming a home for riskier, more inventive material, and...
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