BOX OFFICE REPORT October 30- November 1, 2015(estimates from BoxOfficeMojo.com)
TOP 51. The Martian ($11.4 million)2. Goodsebumps ($10.2 million)3. Bride of Spies ($8.0 million)4. Hotel Transylvania 2 ($5.8 million)5. Burnt ($5.0 million)
As the Ramones once sang: Second verse, same as the first. Just like last week, four of the top five movies were holdovers from the previous week, with only one new entry turning in an extremely lackluster performance, given the track record of the star.
The Martian kept its top position for the fourth time in five weekends. That's rarified company considering only two films in the last five years have pulled off that feat. (That would be Guardians of the Galaxy and Furious 7.) Goosebumps kept its kid-friendly audience right where it wanted it this Halloween weekend, easing only 34 percent for the No. 2 position.
Bridge of Spies will end up being the lowest-grossing film of Steven Spielberg's since Munich, and certainly his lowest collaboration with Tom Hanks, but it's held surprisingly well week over week. Hotel Transylvania 2 has already bested its predecessor, but it's still only the fourth-biggest animated film of the year. Burnt rounded out the top 5, but it's another miss for Bradley Cooper after this year's romantic comedy bummer Aloha.
Outside the top 5: - This Weekend's Indie Champ: Love, Gaspar Noe's XXX-rated semi-autobiographical film about a filmmaker recounting his relationships. Each screen made an estimated $15,062.
- Warner Bros. is finding the title of its Sandra Bullock dramedy prophetic. Our Brand is Crisis only made $3.4 million on more than 2,000 screens. That's an appalling opening for two Oscar winners (in the film, she goes head-to-head with Billy Bob Thornton).
- But even that did better than Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, which wasn't anywhere near the success of the similarly themed Zombieland. This comedy only managed $1.7 million on 1,500 screens.
Next week: The holiday movie season begins in earnest. Spectre, the latest James Bond film, will absolutely be No. 1. The last in the franchise, 2012's Skyfall, opened with a massive $88 million and became the biggest Bond ever. It's already broken the record in its native UK, and I'm expecting a similar boom here. Let's go a little conservative and say $95 million. The Peanuts Movie opens for the kiddos, but it's hard to know just how well it will do. The strip hasn't produced a new piece in 15 years, but last week's showing of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown had one of the biggest audiences on TV that night. So let's just say it will do as well as any other big studio animated film and guess $50 million.
