The comedy “Love the Coopers”-about a four-generation Christmas Eve family celebration that turns wacky and ultimately touching-debuted in third place with $8.3 million”.
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Spectre nabbed another $33.7 million over the weekend, off by just 52.5% against its opening. Final domestic figures will be released Monday. The 24th movie in the 007 franchise (and fourth starring Daniel Craig) is a smash overseas, breaking box-office records in both the United Kingdom and China. Spectre has grossed $128.98 million in box office receipts in North America and has topped the charts for consecutive two weeks.
There’s not a love lost for Sony’s “Spectre” round The Playlist parts, most of us have agreed, it’s a very subpar, James Bond.
“I think we’ve got our next US$1 billion movie”, BoxOffice.com chief analyst Phil Contrino declared. Starring Antonio Banderas, it landed in the fifth spot, behind “The Martian”, which grossed an additional $6.7 million in its seventh week. With an estimated $35.4 million in domestic weekend gross, it has brought in $543.8 million worldwide with many more weeks left to go. The audience was 51% female and 73% over 25. The Hindi-language musical cracked the top ten, landing in eighth placed with an estimated $2.4 million. The new Hindi-language film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo opened in eighth place with an estimated $2.4M from 286 theaters for a $8,392 average for FIP. The film is backed by Alcon Entertainment with a $25 million budget. Which jumped +374.0% by adding 56 screens from 5 and grossed $1,398,405 for a super solid second week $22,925 PSA. The French-flavored movie, which stars real-life spouses Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt as a couple coming apart, took in more than $95,000 in ticket sales, nearly $40,000 below its first weekend projections, for a per-screen average of about $9,500.
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Failing to crack the top 10, despite opening on 1,565 screens, was period football drama “My All American”. Audiences still kept themselves interested over the weekend by checking out the latest adventures of James Bond, but they were also willing to give the random newbies a chance this weekend too for a relatively uneventful time at the movies. Fox Searchlight’s Oscar hopeful Brooklyn also expanded and made $485k at 23 locations.
