Spectre is expected to close out the weekend with $130 million in its last ten days. Peanuts added $24 million bringing its two week total to just under $83 million, according to Brad Brevit at Box Office Mojo.
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Although the previous James Bond films with Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan were separate adventures that featured 007 as a somewhat cynical, humorous womanizer who didn’t seem to age and had “no strings attached”, the producers chose to include a quality TV seriality in the last four movies with Daniel Craig, thus allowing the audience to get to know him better, while seeing the character develop and mature. The ensemble comedy about a family gathering nabbed $8.4 million from 2,603 locations.
Lucky for the Coopers this flick only cost $17 million to make and should be relevant at least until December 25th.
Fox’s seventh weekend of “The Martian” finished ahead of “The 33” in fourth place with $6.7 million, declining only 26%.
Director Sooraj R. Barjatya’s romantic drama Prem Ratan Dhan Payo fetched $590,000 in its Australian opening on 34 screens, a per-screen average of more than $16,000. It has also passed Gladiator as the biggest hit of Ridley Scott’s career both domestically and worldwide. Matt Damon starrer The Martian has once again made the top five with its $6.7 million. The film is backed by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros.
CBS Films’ Love the Coopers was the most successful of the new arrivals, but that really isn’t saying a lot. Audiences liked it much better though, giving it an A- CinemaScore. The film is now heading for a $35 million weekend, after falling behind Skyfall during its debut. The film now will have no issue making it to $85 million domestically. The budget was $58 million.
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Sony’s Goosebumps fared well in its fifth weekend slipping 32% to an estimated $4.7M pushing the cume to $73.5M. That’s a drop of only 27%. It should be able to top $75 million stateside with several markets left to open in overseas. Acquired by Aviron Pictures for almost $1 million, the picture took in an estimated $1.4 million this weekend from 1,565 screens, $2 million less than projections. By the Sea should have pulled in a theater average of at least $25,000-$30,000 to be considered a player. In its eighth week at the box office, Hotel Transylvania 2 has enjoyed a two-month stay in the top 10 during a time which has proven to be a lull at the box office.
