Box Office: 3 New Offerings DOA For Lowest Take Weekend Take Of Year
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Halloween weekend saw 3 new adult offerings DOA at the North American box office, allowing Fox’s The Martian to stay at #1 in its 5th frame with $11.4-M for a domestic total of $182.8-M and worldwide box office of $428.4-M.
Overall weekend box office revenue came in at roughly $74-M, the lowest showing YTD, chilling Hollywood marketing execs.
Warner Bros.’, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) political dramedy Our Brand Is Crisis opened to just $3.4-M from 2,202 theaters, coming in # 7 and marking the smallest nationwide start of Sandra Bullock’s career.
John Well’s Burnt, John Wells’ film starring Bradley Cooper came in luke warm. The Weinstein Co. release opened to $5-M from 3,003 locations to place # 5 behind The Martian and holdovers Goosebumps, Bridge of Spies and Hotel Transylvania 2.
Burnt earn a B- CinemaScore, cost $20-M to produce, the indie film also stars Sienna Miller.
Truth, starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford, tanked as Sony Pictures Classics (NYSE:SNE) expanded the awards hopeful into 1,120 theaters. The movie took in $900,914 for a total $1.2-M.
And the new film targeting the Halloween crowd, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse finished out of the money. The comedy-horror offering grossed $1.8 million from 1,509 theaters to come in #12.
Sony’s Goosebumps placed # 2 with a $10.2-M for a domestic total of $57-M and global box office take of $75.6-M. And fellow Sony title Hotel Transylvania sequel came in # 4 in its 6th weekend with $5.8-M for a domestic box office of $156-M. Overseas, it jumped the $200-M mark, ending Sunday with a foreign take of $217.6-M and global box office of $373.6-M.
Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, continues to be one of the few adult offerings to work, coming in # 3 with $8.1-M for a domestic total of $45.2-M. DreamWorks co-financed the Cold War thriller with Participant. Overseas, the historical drama took enjoys an early total of $12.3-M for a worldwide box office of $57.4-M.
Universal’s, a unit of Comcast Corp (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Steve Jobs fell 64% in its 2nd weekend in wide release. Danny Boyle’s critically acclaimed biopic, starring Michael Fassbender, took in $2.6-M from 2,493 theaters for a domestic box office of $14.5-M. The movie has garnered strong reviews and a high-profile tour on the fall festival circuit as awards season commences.
The big box office news is overseas, where the latest James Bond 007 spy thriller Spectre opened to a record-shattering $83.4-M in the UK. The 24th James Bond installment opens on 6 November in North America.
Have some fun, see a movie this weekend.
HeffX-LTN
Paul Ebeling
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