Spectre, the 24th Bond installment and last week’s top film, earned $35.4 million in its second weekend to top all movies to bring its overall domestic haul to over $130.7 million.
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Lionsgate’s holiday comedy Love The Coopers opened with $8.4 million and a third place finish.
The Peanuts Movie held firm at number two, with takings of $24.2m (£16m).
The first of the weekend’s new movies landed in the #3 spot. The drama eked out $5.8 million from 2,452 theaters – a poor showing and less than the $8 million to $10 million it was expected to generate.
The worst-performing new release was the cookie-cutter sports drama ‘My All American.’ Although it opened on 1,565 screens, the Aaron Eckhart vehicle only scored $1.3 million for 12th place.
According to Box Office Mojo, Spectre made an astonishing $48 million in China, which is just $11 million shy of Skyfall’s entire gross there.
That’s more than the total box office for recent smash hits Mamma Mia, Toy Story 3 or Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2. The film stars Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips and Mario Casas. Acquired by Aviron Pictures for almost $1million, the picture took in an estimated $1.4 million from 1,565 screens, $2 million less than projections.
That said, “you would’ve hoped for a little more, considering their collective star power”, he said. A domestic final in the area of $220M may result for Spectre which has been generating decent but not stellar buzz from ticket buyers. By the Sea grossed a measly United States dollars 95,440 at 10 sites for a doleful per-screen average of USD 9,544. After five weeks of release, “Crimson Peak” has stalled out at $30.8 million which is going to be a costly flop for Legendary and Universal, nor will it help what feels like an already shaky relationship between the two studios.
That places the film 21 percent ahead of the 171.5 million dollars grossed by last year’s “Interstellar” after 45 days of wide release and 14 percent behind the 240.4 million dollars 45-day gross of 2013’s “Gravity”.
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Effusive reviews for He Named Me Malala did not pay off as the documentary about the Pashtun girl who champions the cause of female education in the Muslin world after being shot in the head by the Taliban brought in $56,000 on 34 screens, including previews.
