Box Office: ‘War Room’ Takes Labor Day; ‘Walk in the Woods’ Tramples ‘Transporter’
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This was the 2nd best Summer on record for North American box office revenue, and the worst recent Labor Day.
The race for # 1 was between holdovers War Room, a drama from Sony’s TriStar/Affirm label, and Straight Outta Compton. War Room topped the long holiday weekend with $12.6-M for a domestic take of $27.9-M to data.
Summer 2015 was volatile at the box office overall, despite being the 2nd-best ever in terms of North American revenue, with an estimated $4.46-B.
Universal, a unit of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), soared, enjoying a record run.
Disney (NYSE:DIS) was the other big winner.
The 2 studios accounted for 60% of all revenue. Other studios saw big misses. Another low point is this Labor Day weekend, one of the worst in recent memory in terms of revenue.
Straight Outta Compton has ruled the box office for 3 weekends running, it grossed $8.6-M from 3,097 theaters for the 3 days and $11.1-M for the 4, putting it #2. So far its global take is an amazing $168.1-M.
The weekend’s other new nationwide offering in North America, A Walk in the Woods, starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, is beating Transporter Refueled. The film, one of the 1st releases from Broad Green Pictures, took in $8.2-M from 1,960 locations for the 3 days and $10.3-M for the 4, the film’s 6-day debut is $12.2-M.
Walk in the Woods, placing #3, overperformed thanks to interest from older adults moviegoers.
Transporter Refueled opened to a disappointing $9-M for the 4 day, despite getting the 2nd-widest release ever for a Labor Day title. It is playing in 3,434 locations, including IMAX (NYSE:IMAX) and premium large format theaters. The film placed #5 at the box office.
MI- Rogue Nation remains a strong player in its 6th weekend, earning $9.3-M for the 4 days domestically and crossing $500-M globally for Paramount, a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ:VIA), and Skydance.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for No. 8 with $4.42-M from 395 locations.
As with the North American box office, the international market was quiet.
Terminator topped the foreign box office again with $11.5-M, edging out Hitman: Agent 47 ($11.4-M), pending numbers for Transporter Refueled.
At the specialty box office
Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, which Magnolia debuted in 68 theaters and on VOD. The Magnolia release, earning an estimated $181,000 for the 4 days, opened just as Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs feature biopic Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender, makes its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.
Have some fun, see a movie this week.
HeffX-LTN
Paul Ebeling
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