The film is the first R-rated CGI film to be released nationally and it paid off well for Sony. While the Warner Bros. comic adaptation remained at number one this weekend, not too far behind was Seth Rogan’s Sausage Party doing better than predicted.
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The Ben Affleck-Henry Cavill film had a bigger drop-off than “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and “Elektra”, which had declines of 69 percent – still worse than “Suicide Squad“, starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie.
It would seem Suicide Squad is following the same exact pattern as Batman v Superman. “Sausage Party” more than doubled its box office projections, with most folks expecting a modest $15 million weekend.
Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon” opened soft with $21.5 million, followed at No. 4 by Universal’s “Jason Bourne” with $13.6 million (bringing its US total to about $127 million), and STX’s “Bad Moms” at No. 5 with $11.5 million ($71 million total).
It feels good to be bad… David Lowery directed the $65 million film; Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley and Robert Redford star. The original, about a child who befriends a mythical creature seen only to him, was a musical that used a hybrid of live-action filmmaking and drawn animation, in the vein of “Mary Poppins”. The $120 million Bourne has only made $126 million in three weeks and the $185 million Star Trek is at $139.6 million after a month in theaters. No box office data was released for Independent’s Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the Fourth Reich and Edge of Winter, GVN Releasing’s The Fight Within, Brainstorm Media’s The Model, CJ Entertainment’s Operation Chromite, Film Movement’s My King and Abramorama’s The Girl of the Golden West. In a summer filled with major tent-pole pictures from the studio, Hollis said they wanted to also “dust off” a less popular title that they could produce comparatively cheaper and still make money. Families composed to 66 percent of its audience. Moviegoers gave it an A CinemaScore while 85% of critics on Rotten Tomatoes rated it positively.
The movie came in third with .6 million.
Also part of the new releases this week was “Hell or High Water” from Lionsgate.
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“Florence Foster Jenkins“, the third new release, features Streep in the role of a real-life entertainer famed for singing badly. The film’s $4,306 per-screen average and solid critical reviews line up with Streep’s last August outing, 2015’s Ricki and the Flash, which grossed $6.6 million on 1,603 screens.
