Pictures shows, Ann Dowd, from left, as Nell, Sandra Bullock as Jane and Reynaldo Pacheco as Eddie, in Warner Bros.
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The failure of “Our Brand is Crisis” contributes to an annus horribilis for Warner Bros.
The point is that Burnt sits pretty much at the rock-bottom of Cooper’s career, and Our Brand Is Crisis is definitely Bullock’s career nadir. On a weekend where there were new films starring Bradley Cooper and Sandra Bullock, the top three films were holdovers. The “60 Minutes II” scandal drama “Truth“, with Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford, expanding nationwide, and the horror comedy “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” added to a plague of empty theaters.
With Halloween landing on a Saturday this year, most of the studios took the weekend to fill their pockets with the treats of past weekend releases.
This week’s victory comes courtesy an estimated $11.4 million in weekend receipts.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, it’s rare for Kroll to make any comment about box office results.
Finally in fifth place we have the first of our disappointing openings of the weekend, Bradley Cooper’s Burnt which opened to an estimated $5 million from a wide 3,003 theaters for a per screen average of only $1,678.
“Our Brand is Crisis”, a political satire about a PR executive navigating a Latin American presidential election, was the worst wide release opening of Bullock’s career and was even less popular than 1996’s forgettable “Two If By Sea” with $US4.7 million.
Absent meaningful competition from the week’s newcomers, “The Martian” wins its second straight (and fourth total) weekend box office. The pictures have made $155.7 million and $18.6 million domestically.
Among Oscar contenders in limited release, Focus Features moved “Suffragette” from four theaters to 23, earning $155,000 in the process.
Goosebumps starring Jack Black came a close second with $10.2 million and Steven Spielberg’s Bridge Of Spies starring Tom Hanks stayed in third place with $8.1 million.
Rounding out the box office top 10 are Vin Diesel’s The Last Witch Hunter in sixth place, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension in seventh place and Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak in ninth place. Usually they have to wait 90 days between a picture’s theatrical debut and its digital launch.
“Next week, the whole complexion of this will change”, says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box office data firm Rentrak. “You look at the new films being offered up and none of them had a lot of marketing support behind them”.
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