Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow’s biographical drama Sully continued to fly high in its second weekend at the U.S. box office, while moviegoers grounded new offerings Blair Witch and Bridget Jones’s Baby, both of which came in well behind predictions with $9.7 million and $8.2 million, respectively.
Oliver Stone’s Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, wasn’t as much of a disappointment in debuting to $8 million, since it hadn’t been expected to do much beyond $10 million. Still, it’s the lowest opening of Stone’s career for a movie opening in more than 2,000 theaters.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, September 18, are as follows:
# | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Total | ||
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3-Day Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | ||||
1 | Sully | Warner Bros. | $22,000,000 | 3,525 | $6,241 | $70,541,351 |
2 | Blair Witch | Lionsgate | $9,650,000 | 3,121 | $3,092 | $9,650,000 |
3 | Bridget Jones’s Baby | Universal | $8,240,715 | 2,927 | $2,815 | $8,240,715 |
4 | Snowden | Open Road | $8,023,329 | 2,443 | $3,284 | $8,023,329 |
5 | Don’t Breathe | Sony | $5,600,000 | 3,208 | $1,746 | $75,328,781 |
6 | When The Bough Breaks | Sony | $5,525,000 | 2,246 | $2,460 | $22,697,732 |
7 | Suicide Squad | Warner Bros. | $4,710,000 | 2,740 | $1,719 | $313,782,332 |
8 | Wild Life, The | Lionsgate | $2,650,000 | 2,493 | $1,063 | $6,664,269 |
9 | Kubo And The Two Strings | Focus Features | $2,509,000 | 1,757 | $1,428 | $44,240,974 |
10 | Pete’s Dragon | Disney | $2,041,000 | 1,948 | $1,048 | $72,805,525 |
11 | Hell Or High Water | Lionsgate | $1,925,000 | 1,505 | $1,279 | $22,725,531 |
12 | Bad Moms | STX Entertainment | $1,789,000 | 1,486 | $1,204 | $110,033,928 |