Thought not known for huge hits, September’s previous record holder was the first film, “Hotel Transylvania” with $42 million in 2012, noted The Wrap.
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The first film, basically an animated version of Adam Sandler’s invite-my-friends-over movies like “Grown Ups“, had a talented cast and gave it nothing to do.
Despite strong competition from The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Deadline reports Hotel Transylvania 2 is on pace to earning a monster $46 million or higher by the end of its first weekend. So, it looks like Adam Sandler can count this as a win for himself as well. Audiences for the Nancy Meyers film were 62 per cent women and 88 per cent over the age of 25.
“Double Dragon” (1994) Box Office: $2.34 million.In this wildly-inaccurate vision of 2007, the fate of a crappy city called “New Angeles” (L.A. and San Diego combined) will be decided by an ancient Chinese medallion, that alcoholic sibling on “Party of Five” and the T-1000 from “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”.
Meanwhile “Black Mass“, a biopic about Irish-American mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, landed in fifth place with $11.5 million.
The Intern does offer a few good moments and there is a platonic playfulness between De Niro and Hathaway, which endears the film even more.
Thriller “Everest“, in which a group of climbers find themselves engulfed in a blinding blizzard on the side of the iconic mountain, rose to fourth place in its second weekend out with $13.1 million.
“Hotel Transylvania 2” serves as the sequel to Tartakovsky’s “Hotel Transyvlvania”. And Sony, which had its inner workings laid bare in last year’s hack attack by North Korea, was subjected to a summer that saw films like “Aloha” and Sandler’s video game “Pixels” rejected by audiences.
That left Eli Roth’s “Green Inferno” as the weekend’s only other wide release.
The “Maze Runner” sequel ended up falling to the No. 3 spot, adding $14 million to its domestic gross.
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After a successful limited release in IMAX, Universal is expanding Everest into traditional theaters this weekend. The company had hoped the film would debut to between $4 million and $5 million. “We have worked closely with Reliance to ensure that the experience for players is a true extension of the new movie, and unveils a level of entertainment on mobile devices that fans and players will not be able to put down”, said Mark Caplan, Senior Vice President of Sony Pictures Consumer Products.
