Bridget Jones’s Baby, Blair Witch and Snowden didn’t ground Sully at the USA weekend box office.
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The Clint Eastwood-directed film has piled up a whopping $70.5 million at the box office in its first two weeks.
Blair Witch, the sequel to 1999’s Blair Witch Project, didn’t quite impress when it opened this weekend with an estimated $9.7 million, but the film’s writer and director are trying to have a sense of humor about it. Lionsgate released the film across 3,121 locations this week. The film stars James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez and Corbin Reid. Renee Zellweger reprises her single-woman role in the “Bridget Jones” romantic-comedy saga, this time finding herself pregnant and unsure who is the father.
Bridget Jones, opening to $38.1 million globally, did bang-up business in the United Kingdom with a record-breaking $11.3 million, the biggest launch ever for a romantic comedy and the biggest opening to date for Working Title. “Bridget Jones Baby” was directed by Sharon Maguire, working off a screenplay written by Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer.
Debuting at fourth-place was “Snowden, ‘ which opened to 2,443 locations, earning $8.02M overall”.
Admit it, you’re curious what filmmaker Oliver Stone might do with the story of Edward Snowden.
Close attention is being paid to the performance of Stone’s Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Wrapping up the top-five this weekend was another horror-thriller, the ScreenGem summer hit “Don’t Breathe”.
Critics panned “Blair Witch”, which was made for less than $10 million, and audiences are turning up their noses at it, too, giving the film a D+ Cinemascore. The film brought in another $5.6M over the weekend, bumping the film’s four-week running total to $75.33M domestically.
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The British-made film cost a relatively modest $35 million to make and should end up in the black thanks to the overseas box office, where it opened to a rousing $29.9 million from 38 markets, enough to top the foreign weekend chart during a relatively quiet weekend.
