The actor’s fourth turn as James Bond easily outpaced a strong showing for The Peanuts Movie, which still thrived at $45 million in it’s weekend take.
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Sony’s latest James Bond adventure movie “Spectre” got an easy first-place spot at the box office with an estimated $73 million, making it the second biggest Bond opening of all time. But the movie failed to match 007’s biggest hit, “Skyfall”, which grossed $88 million on its first weekend in 2012. Kutcher’s movie tallied just over $16.1 million while Fassbender is now up to a bittersweet $16.6 million.
The combined opening totals were enough to lift Hollywood out of its fall doldrums.
Hotel Transylvania 2 saw its earning power diminished slightly by the arrival of new cartoon competition, with $3.5 million in sixth this weekend. “I mean we have used a lot of ideas up in this film as well as in ‘Skyfall.’ You get to a point that there is not enough room in your brain to think about James Bond anymore”, he told Screen Rant. Its domestic total is now at a $66.5 million, which is slightly healthier than the number for our No. 5 movie this weekend, Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. “The worldwide support for “spectre” is a testament not only to the dedication of our wonderful fans around the globe but also to the incredible team involved with this film who worked so hard both in front of and behind the camera”.
Globally, however, “Spectre” remains a juggernaut, pulling in $200 million and shoving its global total to more than $300 million after a couple of weeks in launch.
Audiences, 70 percent of whom were families, gave “The Peanuts Movie” a strong A CinemaScore, suggesting that word of mouth will be strong for the animated pic.
Global results were more impressive, with “Spectre” outpacing “Skyfall” in many foreign countries where it is opening, with particularly big numbers in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russian Federation. It cost $100 million to make and was produced by Blue Sky, the creative force behind the “Ice Age” series. Overall revenue for the weekend is expected to clock in at $162 million, a record for the first full weekend of November.
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Fox Searchlight offered up another piece of awards bait, debuting the period romance “Brooklyn” in five theaters where it earned $237,389 and picked up a solid per-screen average of $36,200. “Trumbo”, starring Bryan Cranston, took in $77,229 from five theaters.
