Among 3,525 locations in North America where “Sully” was debuted, the film was screened on 375 IMAX locations, making it the largest September IMAX opening for a wide release with an estimated 4 million dollars in ticket sales.
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“Sully” stars Hanks as Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the career pilot who successfully landed a damaged U.S. Airways jet in the Hudson River after it hit a flock of geese following takeoff from LaGuardia Airport.
In second place is the Morris Chestnut drama, “When the Bough Breaks”. Overall, this weekend’s top twelve delivered almost $86 million, a small uptick from the same weekend a year ago with almost 60% of the top twelve cumulative gross coming from the top two new releases. An estimated 80 per cent of those who turned out this weekend were over the age of 35, too, according to Warner Bros.
The Warner Bros. film cost a reported $60 million to produce.
Dropping to third place from first place is “Don’t Breathe”.
Sully also stars Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) as Sully’s co-pilot, Jeff Skiles, and Oscar nominee Laura Linney (The Savages, Kinsey) as Sully’s wife, Lorrie Sullenberger. This includes $2.3 million from Australia, $925,000 in Russian Federation and $929,000 from the United Arab Emirates. The film opened with $15 million in sales, missing the $17.7 million estimate from Hollywood Stock Exchange. They hire a surrogate, played by Jaz Sinclair, who develops a psychotic fixation on the husband as the pregnancy progresses.
However Paul Dergarabedian said: ‘Because of the success of so many of these films, most of us thought it would do more this weekend, but no one is going to be crying about it over at Sony.
Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, echoed that sentiment, stressing: “The Perfect Guy’s box office was way beyond anyone’s expectations”. The horror movie earns an estimated $8.2 million in its third week after topping the chart for two weeks in a row, while the DC antihero flick adds another $5.7 million for its domestic total of $307 million in its sixth week.
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The Wild Life – a re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story as seen by the animals on the island where he was shipwrecked – opened with US$3.3 million in box office receipts. It cost $10 million to make, according to Box Office Mojo.
