Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Doctor Strange opened to a far better-than-expected $85 million from 3,882 theaters at the North American box office, adding another franchise to the expanding Marvel Studios and Disney superhero universe and putting the movie’s early global total at a magical $325.4 million. Overseas, the pic earned another $118.7 million this weekend. Doctor Strange, …
Read More »‘Inferno’ Fails To Set Box Office On Fire
Ron Howard’s Inferno suffered a startling defeat in its North American box-office debut, grossing an estimated $15 million from 3,575 theaters to come in behind holdover Boo! A Madea Halloween, which scared up $16.7 million from 2,299 theaters in its sophomore outing. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, October …
Read More »Madea Tops Jack Reacher In Battle Of Box Office Dreck
Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween easily scared off Tom Cruise’s sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back to win the weekend box office race with a stellar $27.6 million. Never Go Back followed at No. 2 with $23 million. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, October 23, are as follows: # Title …
Read More »‘The Accountant’ Tallies Up A Box Office Wim
The Accountant topped the North American box office over the weekend with a better-than-expected $24.7 million from 3,332 theaters after being snubbed by many critics. In the action-thriller, Affleck plays a whiz accountant (and assassin) who cooks the books for mobsters and cartels. When he’s targeted by the Treasury Department, he goes …
Read More »‘Girl on the Train’ Roars To Top Of The Box Office
The Girl on the Trainopened to a solid $24.7 million from 3,133 theaters over the weekend, easily winning the North American box-office race, The female-fueled Girl on the Train, an adaptation of British author Paula Hawkins’ hit novel and starring Emily Blunt, was produced by Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks for under $50 million …
Read More »‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ Tops Weak Box Office
Tim Burton’s kid-friendly fantasy adventure Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children opened to $28.5 million from 3,522 theaters at the North American box office over the weekend, blowing past Pete Berg’s oil rig disaster pic Deepwater Horizon and easily landing at No. 1. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Deepwater Horizon placed No. 2 with $20.6 million from 3,259 cinemas. …
Read More »‘Magnificent Seven’ Gallops to No. 1
The Magnificent Seven galloped to a domestic debut of $35 million from 3,674 theaters, placing No. 1 in North America and corralling one of the top openings of all time for a Western, not accounting for inflation. The remake benefited from a star-studded cast led by Denzel Washington and solid reviews. The …
Read More »‘Sully’ Remains On Top Of The Box Office
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 …
Read More »“Sully” Flies To The Top Of The Box Office
Clint Eastwood’s Sully launched over the weekend to a heroic $35.5 million from 3,525 theaters at the North American box office for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, the top takeoff ever for an adult drama opening in September. Sully, which also boasted the top debut for the first weekend following Labor Day, …
Read More »‘Don’t Breathe’ Terrorizes Box Office
Don’t Breathe scared away the dog days of August at the North American box office, opening to $26.1 million from 3,501 theaters, well ahead of expectations and easily placing No. 1. The movie, from Sony’s Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films, is sure to be profitable for the studio, considering it …
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