The Peanuts Movie remained at number two, banking $24 million. The critically derided Christmas comedy -which stars Diane Keaton, Alan Arkin, Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried and John Goodman among others- opened in third place on 2,603 screens where it earned a mild $8.4 million. The latter, a Warner Bros.-produced film based on the Chilean miner crisis from five years ago, failed to captivate audiences the way the news did at the time: it earned less than $6 million, although worldwide stars Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche and Gabriel Byrne helped it to double that internationally. Written and directed by and starring Angelina Jolie, “Sea” reunites the actress with real-life husband Brad Pitt onscreen for the first time since 2005 action comedy “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”. Sony is distributing the Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and Eon Productions’ film which carries an enormous $250 million price tag. You might consider that amount of money something of a success given the bashing it received at the hands of critics (a painful 17% at Rotten Tomatoes), but conidering the limited likelihood of worldwide interest and a reported $18 million production budget, Love The Coopers is set to be a holiday bust for CBS films. The Ridley Scott feature has earned a great $207 million so far domestically and an additional $263 million from overseas. The latest Bond entry shot past $100 million, adding $35 million to its now $130 million domestic total. The R-rated relationship drama bowed in ten theaters and grossed an estimated $95,000 for a weak $9,500 average.
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Fox’s seventh weekend of “The Martian” finished ahead of “The 33” in fourth place with $6.7 million, declining only 26%. The Fox backed adaptation of Charles Schulz’s iconic comic strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown has earned $82.5 million stateside.
Sony’s Goosebumps fared well in its fifth weekend slipping 32% to an estimated $4.7M pushing the cume to $73.5M.
Also at the specialty box office, Spotlight expanded to 60 locations and earned a solid $1.4 million.
Next week begins the much anticipated surge in moviegoing already kickstarted by “Spectre” and “The Peanuts Movie”. On the horizon are “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2”, which arrives Friday, followed by Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” on November 25 and Disney’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” on December 18.
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The animated hit Hotel Transylvania 2 became the highest grossing film of Adam Sandler’s career after this weekend’s estimated $2.4M (off 35%) raised the total to $165.2M surpassing the $163.5M of Big Daddy which had been the funnyman’s top film since 1999.
