Also making their USA debuts this week are When the Bough Breaks at number 2 with $15 million and The Wild Life (or Robinson Crusoe as it will be else where) at number 5.
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Indeed there is a convincing argument the picture has already made more than it should, given it has a woeful zero per cent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
“Older audiences love to go to the movies as well, and ‘Sully” is exactly the kind of movie that can bring them out’.
Directed by Clint Eastwood, “Sully” handily outperformed recent expectations, which had been in the $25 million range.
ComScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian said: ‘This is the kind of sophisticated drama that is the antidote for older audiences to the youth-driven blockbuster stylings of the summer season.
Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s new movie has soared to the top of the US box office in its opening weekend.
The 10 most-popular movies this week were “Suicide Squad” (5.7 million dollars), “The Wild Life” (3.4 million), “Kubo And the Two Strings” (3.2 million), “Pete’s Dragon” (2.9 million), “Bad Moms” (2.8 million), “Hell Or High Water” (2.6 million) and “Sausage Party” (2.3 million). “Because of the success of so many of these films, most of us thought it would do more this weekend, but no one is going to be crying about it over at Sony”.
Sully also stars Aaron Eckhart and Laura Linney.
“Sully” has a production budget of about $60 million, so it will need to show holdover strength in the following weekends to make it into profitable territory. They hire a surrogate, played by Jaz Sinclair, who develops a psychotic fixation on the husband as the pregnancy progresses.
Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, echoed that sentiment, stressing: “The Perfect Guy’s box office was way beyond anyone’s expectations”.
Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films’ Don’t Breathe stayed high on the chart in its third weekend, coming in # 3 with an estimated $8.2-M for a domestic box office take of $66.8-M. Bruer noted that the 48 percent decline represented an excellent hold for the genre. Suicide Squad was fourth this weekend with $5.7 and is now over $307 million domestically after 38 days of release.
Meanwhile, Kate Beckinsale’s new horror The Disappointments Room was a big disappointment at the US box office, taking in just $1.4 million (GBP1.06 million) thanks in part to a series of awful reviews.
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Lionsgate’s second weekend of Spanish-language comedy “No Manches Frida” continued to perform well in 11th with $2.2 million at 465 sites. The film, which carries a $16 million price tag and was shot in 2014 by D.J. Caruso, centers on a hidden room in the attic at a rural home.
