Cowboys and birds lead the way on a rebounding weekend at the box office.
Two big releases carried the weekend at the box office, although there were many huge drop-offs, either. Last week was disappointing, with only one movie making more than $10 million. This week, three films crossed that threshold, two of them being the week’s new wide releases.
The Magnificent Seven opened to $34.7 million, giving it the second highest opening for a live-action Western since 1979 – Cowboys & Aliens debuted at $36.4 million in 2011. But unlike the Jon Favreau movie, The Magnificent Seven doesn’t need to cover a $150 million budget. At a more modest $90 million, barring a huge second-week drop-off, the film should turn a profit.
Storks, the animated movie from Warner Bros., took in $22.2 million, which might be seen as a disappointment compared to other big-budget talking animal movies from this year. Finding Dory ($135 million), The Secret Life of Pets ($104.4 million), and Zootopia ($75 million) all easily cleared it, while even midcarders like Kung Fu Panda 3 ($41.3 million) and The Angry Birds Movie ($38.2 million) topped it. And while there isn’t another animated movie aimed at children for another month, with the pending releases of family-friendly affairs like Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Queen of Katwe, and Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, it might have a tough time recouping its budget.
The only two huge drops came from The Wild Life, which fell 85.1% to $411,840 in its third week, and The Disappointments Room – which never did get released here, unfortunately – which dropped an unbelievable 97.4% to $9,643. That isn’t a typo.
Here is the top ten for the weekend:
1. The Magnificent Seven ($34.7 million, week 1)
2. Storks ($21.3 million, week 1)
3. Sully ($13.5 million, week 3)
4. Bridget Jones’s Baby ($4.7 million, week 2)
5. Snowden ($4.1 million, week 2)
6. Blair Witch ($4.1 million, week 2)
7. Don’t Breathe ($3.8 million, week 5)
8. Suicide Squad ($3.1 million, week 8)
9. When the Bough Breaks ($2.5 million, week 3)
10. Kubo and the Two Strings ($1.1 million, week 6)
Source: BoxOfficeMojo
Published: Sep 27, 2016 09:15 pm