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Officially, summer begins on the June 21 solstice and ends on September 22.<\/p>\n
At the movie theater,\u00a0the summer movie season is measured a little differently. \u201cSummer movies\u201d tend to start coming out around Memorial Day, and sometimes even earlier than that. (This year, The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>hit theaters on May 22, but in the weeks\u00a0prior\u00a0you could\u00a0catch\u00a0The Devil Wears Prada 2\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Mortal Kombat II<\/em>\u00a0in theaters.)\u00a0And even though August is clearly the summeriest summer month of all (love that humidity!), studios tend to\u00a0cut off the flow of big summer titles after the first weekend of August.<\/p>\n After that, multiplexes are\u00a0too\u00a0full\u00a0of films released over the prior couple of months \u2014 and families are so focused on gearing up for the start of the school year \u2014 for any new product to make much of an impact. Instead,\u00a0late August is the time when companies quietly dump the movies they have little to no faith in; the ones that have struggled through\u00a0troubled productions and rounds of reshoots; the ones that got terrible test scores; the ones that a studio unwittingly acquired in\u00a0a corporate merger.<\/p>\n Sure, you might find a diamond in the rough if you head to the theater\u00a0at the end of August. But you can\u2019t find the diamond if it ain\u2019t buried among a lot of rough.\u00a0The 15 titles below are the rough;\u00a0just a few of the reasons why people think of late August as a cinematic dumping ground.<\/p>\n Want to know why people think only bad movies come out at the end of August? Here are 15 examples.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nInfamous Movies Dumped in August<\/h2>\n