It’s in tenth place with a take of only $2.6 million, that’s down about 64 percent on last weekend. It was apparent a few parents and their kids wanted goofy scares as “Goosebumps” remained in second place with an additional $10.2 million to its total. Those three blockbusters-to-be head a holiday lineup that is expected to rewrite the records book and push the year to an all-time high in domestic grosses.
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Burnt, directed by John Wells and starring Cooper as a chef trying to make a comeback, opened to a measly $5 million from 3,003 locations.
At least it did better than Bullock’s Our Brand Is Crisis, a political comedy that only opened to $3.4 million. The Martian, now in its fifth weekend in release, rang up $11.4 million over the Halloween weekend and has now brought in $182 million domestically. The film’s starry run has brought in about $183 million since its premiere.
The weekend was never meant to be a big one at theaters with Halloween falling on a Saturday and the latest James Bond film, “Spectre” (and follow-up to the $1.1 billion “Skyfall”) awaiting release in the coming week.
Absent meaningful competition from the week’s newcomers, “The Martian” wins its second straight (and fourth total) weekend box office.
Though spooky movies have traditionally been box-office leaders in Halloweens past, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, an R-rated horror-comedy full of raunch and splatter, performed poorly. About $2 million below the lowest expectations, the film didn’t pull in as much of its target audience – women and foodies – as producers had hoped. “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” tanked in its debut, too, while Vin Diesel’s “The Last Witch Hunter” and the highly regarded Oscar hopeful “Steve Jobs” continued to misfire after disappointing wide openings last weekend. The film, which cost about $20 million to make, received a B-minus grading from audience polling firm Cinemascore and a 29% fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Usually they have to wait 90 days between a picture’s theatrical debut and its digital launch. Do you know the last time a Sandra Bullock filmed opened on over 1,000 screens and made less than $3.4 million?
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“Truth“, a drama about “60 Minutes” controversial report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service, stumbled in its wide release expansion. The Sony Pictures Classics’ release moved from 18 screens to 1,120 venues, earning a dispiriting $US900,914 in the process. “The studios knew what they had”.
