Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of Oct. 4, 2015, as compiled by the company’s theatrical measurement services.

As the trusted official standard for real-time worldwide box office reporting, Rentrak provides the only theater-level reporting in the world. Customers are able to analyze admissions and gross results around the world using Rentrak’s suite of products.

Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, “Fox’s ‘The Martian’ blasts off in 50 global territories with a $100.2 million debut that has the film topping the box office charts in North America and internationally by capitalizing on great word-of-mouth and critical raves.  Chinese films including the comedy ‘Lost in Hong Kong‘ and the action-adventure ‘Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe’ both made their mark with impressive performances on the chart this weekend.”

The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, are below.

  1. Martian, The – 20th Century Fox – $100.2M
  2. Hotel Transylvania 2 – Sony – $53.4M
  3. Lost In Hong Kong – Multiple – $41.0M
  4. Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe – Multiple – $34.0M
  5. Intern, The – Warner Bros. – $27.3M
  6. Goodbye Mr. Loser – Multiple – $26.0M
  7. Everest – Universal – $21.9M
  8. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – 20th Century Fox – $21.4M
  9. Sicario – Multiple – $15.4M
  10. Inside Out – Disney – $12.8M
  11. Visit, The – Universal – $7.2M
  12. Saving Mr. Wu – Multiple – $7.0M

The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, are below.

  1. Martian, The – 20th Century Fox – $55.0M
  2. Hotel Transylvania 2 – Sony – $33.0M
  3. Sicario – Lionsgate – $12.1M
  4. Intern, The – Warner Bros. – $11.6M
  5. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – 20th Century Fox – $7.7M
  6. Black Mass – Warner Bros. – $5.9M
  7. Everest – Universal – $5.5M
  8. Visit, The – Universal – $3.9M
  9. War Room – Sony – $2.8M
  10. Perfect Guy, The – Sony – $2.4M
  11. MET Opera: Il Trovatore (2015) – Fathom Events – $2.0M
  12. Walk, The – Sony – $1.6

Full details regarding the global domestic and international box office results are listed in the table below.

Weekend BO Estimate (USD)

Weekend Release Cume (USD)

Distributor

Title

Worldwide

Int’l

Domestic

Worldwide

Int’l

Domestic

Int’l

#Terr

Dom

Martian, The

100,200,000

45,200,000

55,000,000

100,200,000

45,200,000

55,000,000

 FOX

50

 FOX

Hotel Transylvania 2

53,400,000

20,400,000

33,000,000

150,341,765

59,800,000

90,541,765

 SNY

51

 SNY

Lost In Hong Kong

41,000,000

41,000,000

204,744,452

204,000,000

744,452

 MUL

6

 WGU

Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe

34,000,000

34,000,000

68,000,000

68,000,000

 MUL

1

Intern, The

27,320,000

15,700,000

11,620,000

72,123,892

35,600,000

36,523,892

 WB

58

 WB

Goodbye Mr. Loser

26,000,000

26,000,000

37,000,000

37,000,000

 MUL

1

 CHL

Everest

21,906,470

16,400,000

5,506,470

136,477,780

103,300,000

33,177,780

 UNI

66

 UNI

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

21,350,000

13,700,000

7,650,000

211,041,124

147,800,000

63,241,124

 FOX

59

 FOX

Sicario

15,375,000

3,300,000

12,075,000

25,076,295

10,000,000

15,076,295

 MUL

39

 LGF

Inside Out

12,840,000

12,600,000

240,000

792,252,737

438,400,000

353,852,737

 DIS

26

 DIS

Visit, The

7,249,000

3,300,000

3,949,000

76,694,090

19,000,000

57,694,090

 UNI

31

 UNI

Saving Mr. Wu

7,000,000

7,000,000

13,500,000

13,500,000

 MUL

3

 INDP

Minions

6,310,050

6,000,000

310,050

1,145,310,590

811,400,000

333,910,590

 UNI

45

 UNI

Fack ju Gohte 2

6,000,000

6,000,000

60,000,000

60,000,000

 CON

2

Black Mass

5,905,000

5,905,000

52,521,030

52,521,030

 WB

1

 WB

Regression

4,000,000

4,000,000

4,000,000

4,000,000

 MUL

3

 TWC

Throne, The

4,000,000

4,000,000

37,000,000

37,000,000

 SHO

1

*Territory is a movie studio term for regions of the world consisting of various countries.

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