With a few films making their theatrical debut at the box office this weekend, “Spectre” and “The Peanuts Movie” manage to hold on to the top spots.
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Spending its seventh weekend in the top five, Fox’s The Martian dipped only 26% to an estimated $6.7M and lifted its sum to an fantastic $207.4M. The latest Bond entry shot past $100 million, adding $35 million to its now $130 million domestic total. Bridge of Spies has banked $61.7M over the same number of weeks and grossed an estimated $4.3M this weekend dipping 27% for Disney.
Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” which officially crossed its $200 million mark this past week, took the fourth spot with $6.7 million.
And it was another “good grief” weekend for Charlie Brown, as “The Peanuts Movie” finished in second place for the second weekend.
Roadshow gave Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, the tale of a Hollywood screenwriter trying to make sense of his life starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Antonio Banderas, Isabel Lucas and Teresa Palmer, a token release on 10 screens, grossing less than $10,000. But the pleasures of voyeurism extend only so far. It carries a gargantuan $250 million price tag.
The holiday comedy “Love the Coopers” opened to a better-than-expected third place. Distributed in conjunction with Lionsgate, “Love the Coopers” stars Diane Keaton, John Goodman, and Alan Arkin and cost US$17 million to produce.
Though the 2010 mine crash, which trapped 33 miners underground for 69 days, riveted the world, moviegoers showed little interest in a dramatized version of the accounts. The retelling of Charles M. Schulz’s classic comic strip has benefitted from being one of the only family-friendly flicks in theaters right now, and its domestic total is now at $82.5 million. The film has made nearly $5 million in Chile and $3 million in Mexico.
The film had hoped to snag the faith-based crowds that made “War Room” and “God’s Not Dead” hits, but struggled to complete the play.
This weekend’s final new wide release failed to crack the top 10, and My All American, starring Finn Wittrock and Aaron Eckhart in the story of Texas football legend Freddie Steinmark, only earned $1.4 million in 1,565 locations. Skyfall grossed $59M in China across its entire run and with all the growth there over the past three years, Spectre is headed for a sharply higher haul.
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Expanding to 60 theaters, Tom McCarthy’s acclaimed “Spotlight”, about the Boston Globe investigation into Catholic priest sex abuse, pulled in $1.4 million with a per-screen average of $23,307 for Open Road Films.
