Deadline's specialty box office round-up covers the Labor Day long weekend, led by dark comedy Buddy, which held strongly in its second week, and a debut for the Jimmy Buffett documentary Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers at a Key West theatre. The report also notes Oscilloscope's CatVideoFest 2026 crossing $1 million cumulatively and continuing its international rollout, underlining a busy period for smaller independent and specialty releases outside the major studio blockbusters.

Buddy, from Roadside Attractions and Saban Films, took $5.75 million over the three-day weekend (around $7.2 million over four days) across 1,771 screens, pushing its cumulative total to roughly $14.3-15.7 million. The Jeff Bridges-narrated Buffett documentary grossed $5,200 from two sold-out Key West screenings and will expand to about 70 locations through October, while CatVideoFest is adding France, Denmark and the UK to its release. Other new entries included A24's Onslaught, which opened to $1.9-2.3 million on nearly 1,900 screens, alongside smaller openings for Dear You and The Sun Never Sets, and continuing runs for A24's Tony, The Invite and Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma.