Final numbers are expected Monday. “Peanuts”, from 20th Century Fox, repeated last week’s second-place finish, adding $24.2 million to its take.
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That meant a movie that has been out in the charts for seven weeks earned more than another story of survival and rescue attempts, this one based off a true story.
As IF had foreshadowed, The Dressmaker, Oddball ($10.65 million) and Alex & Eve ($400,000) have propelled Australian films’ B.O. receipts to $80 million, an all-time record in dollars, eclipsing 2001’s $63.4 million.
As the season’s first premiere with a holiday theme, costing less than $18 million, expectations are that its performance will improve as the Thanksgiving weekend approaches.
It’s possible that “Love the Coopers” ate into the “Peanuts” family audience. The film is scheduled to be released on November 12. The 50% drop in business is the second best hold of the Bond films -starring Daniel Craig- in their sophomore session. The first two films in the franchise opened with over $150 million, and “Mockingjay Part 1” opened previous year with $121 million; so a few are already saying that if “Part 2” opens with anything less than $120 million, it will considered a disappointment.
The Peanuts Movie also had a solid second weekend, holding on to second place with an estimated $24.2 million and falling 45 percent. It has also passed Gladiator as the biggest hit of Ridley Scott’s career both domestically and worldwide. Like Love the Coopers, this one boasted a stellar ensemble cast but fell short in critical regard, with a 40% RT rating. The film has made nearly $5 million in Chile and $3 million in Mexico.
“By the Sea” grossed a measly US$95,440 at 10 sites for a doleful per-screen average of US$9,544. “Spectre” star Craig joined Alibaba founder Jack Ma in a live national TV broadcast to kick off Singles Day, the country’s biggest online shopping day, which was seen by over 500 million viewers. That puts it domestic total at more than $82 million. The budget was $58 million.
Sony’s Goosebumps fared well in its fifth weekend slipping 32% to an estimated $4.7M pushing the cume to $73.5M. It should be able to top $75 million stateside with several markets left to open in overseas. Still, it performed better than wannabe-inspirational American Football drama My All American, which arrived in 12th place with $1.392 million.
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But even more interesting was that, once again, another Bollywood film, “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo”, made the top ten list, coming in at 8th place, with the third highest per screen average on only 286 screens.
