Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Box: With the appropriately named Pan.

1. The Martian - $31m / $104m / $180m
2. Hotel Transylvania 2 - $19m / $116m / $175m
3. Pan - $18m / $18m / $55m
4. Sicario - $7.5m / $27m / $46m
**The Intern - $7.5m / $48.5m / $65m
6. The Walk - $6.5m / $9.2m / $25m
7. The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trialsn - $4m / $69.5m / $80m
8. Black Mass - $3m / $57.5m / $65m
**Everest - $3m / $38.5m / $45m
10. The Visit - $2m / $60.5m / $65m

The Martian almost broke Gravity's October record. It and Hotel Transylvania 2 are doing spectacularly and giving this time of the year the kick it deserves. Sicario did about as expected, still very solid considering it's an adult-aimed dark thriller. The Intern is showing some great legs, and will probably finish just ahead of Black Mass. Who saw that coming? The Nancy Meyers film is really taking advantage of the lack of comedies in the marketplace. The Walk completely bombed in its IMAX only run last weekend, and probably won't do much better once it expands. Despite good reviews, it looks like we'll be seeing think pieces over the next several days about why the film is doing so poorly. (Audiences with vertigo? Audiences uncomfortable seeing the World Trade Center? Audiences uncomfortable with annoying French people?) Pan opens this weekend, and it's going to fail no matter what thanks to that massive budget. I originally thought it might steal some of Hotel Transylvania's family audience but now HT2 seems like a bigger threat to Pan than the other way around. 99 Homes expands to about 500+ locations, but it won't make the top 10. I doubt it even breaks a million.

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