The formula works – audiences are exhausted from the summer blockbusters and can only take so much of the serious Oscar-bait dramas coming out, so an easy family cartoon is a relaxing oasis for parents and kids alike. The 2012 original grossed almost $360 million worldwide.
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Additionally, the Robert Deniro and Anne Hathaway film, “The Intern“, also made its launched and brought in .2 million. The Intern was a crowd favorite.
The overall gross of the weekend’s films was $135.4 million, up almost 21% compared with the same weekend period past year. That honor probably goes to Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall, which opened at 129 locations and earned a dismal $871 per theater. The movie has introduced in $ fifty one.7 million so far. This film got shown at more than 3000 sites. Its per screen average fell almost 68% from last weekend. Besides the narrative and the plot, it was the motifs and symbols as well as the costumes that attracted audiences to watch these films. It should finish out at around $50 million to $60 million in the US. Both “Black Mass”, in fifth place with $ eleven.5 million, and “Everest” have been pulling in predominantly male audiences. So while the success of his animated films is definitely a relief for Sandler, it also must be a bit depressing that the formerly great comic icon can only find success as a voice in children’s movies. It will finish with about $65 million to $70 million in the USA; the budget was $53 million.
In its third weekend the M. Night Shyamalan horror flick The Visit scared up another $6.75M, according to estimates, bringing its cume up to $52M.
“Everest“, meanwhile, landed in fourth place with only $13.1 million after expanding nationwide. It should finish out with around $68 million or so. It will likely finish off with about $63 million stateside. It has earned $1.3 million after two weeks.
OPening at #9 was Eli Roth’s latest, the cannibal film The Green Inferno. The low totals and ninth place opening come as a disappointment to distributor High Top Releasing. It garnered 56 percent positive based on critics’ reviews aggregated by Rottentomatoes.com. The film should finish out with around $7 million to $8 million.
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Closing out the top ten for the weekend was Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed drug-war thriller Sicario, which earned $1.8 million from screenings in only 59 theaters – which averages out to a whopping $30,000 per theater. That’s a solid placing Warner Bros. a unit of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), considering Director Meyers’ film targeted older adults, who do not rush out on opening weekend but tend to deliver a long run, the movie played well in every part of the country.
