Weekend Box Office Report: November 7-9 2014

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BOX OFFICE REPORT 

November 7-9, 2014(estimates from BoxOfficeMojo.com)

TOP 51. Big Hero 6 (56.2 million)2. Interstellar ($50.0 million)3. Gone Girl ($6.1 million)4. Ouija ($6.0 million)5. St. Vincent  ($5.7 million)

Even a man with as big a vision as Christopher Nolan, taking audiences to outer space, can't stop Disney. Their first Marvel Comics adaptation, Big Hero 6, took the top spot with an estimated $56.2 million. This is definitely a case of Disney's power. Big Hero 6 is even less well-known than Guardians of the Galaxy, but still managed to make it to No. 1.

Interstellar had far more hype, and has a lot more on its mind than most other blockbusters, but it only opened with $50 million. That's Nolan's lowest opening since The Prestige in 2006. Its mixed reviews mean it won't reach the stratospheric heights of his last three movies, which have all made more than $290 million each.

And then there's Gone Girl, still killing it in its sixth week. It moved back up to No. 3, and should pass $150 million by next week. That's still more than any movie has made since Labor Day. St. Vincent is also a big success story. The Bill Murray-starring indie has now made $27 million thus far, creeping its way into wide release.

Outside the top 5: - This Weekend's Indie Champ: The Theory of Everything, the Oscar-chasing biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking. It averaged $41,400 on only five screens.

- Not everyone gets to take a trip to the National Gallery in London, which may explain why the documentary about it may have done so well. On one lone screen, it made $9,700.

- It's a tight race for the first to $100 million. The Maze Runner and The Equalizer opened within a week of each other, and both are within $2 million of that major milestone.

Next week: Dumb and Dumber To is the biggest movie opening next week, but it will play second fiddle to the second weeks of Big Hero 6 and Interstellar. The best it can hope for is $20 million, I think.

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About Kip Mooney

Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.

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