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Box Office Weekend: Bad Grandpa Defies Gravity

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

Leave it to Johnny Knoxville to achieve the impossible…namely, to take a mega-hit, blockbuster film and send it to slot number two on the top ten. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa took first place for the weekend with an estimated $32 million, making twice its production costs in a single weekend. It sent Gravity, which has scored well domestically and abroad, to second place with an estimated $20.3 million. Captain Phillips, which has never scored first place at the box office, slipped to third with an estimated $11.8 million. It has been a box office and critical success, but it has not seen the success of the other two films.

The Counselor, the latest thriller from Cormac McCarthy, opened to poor reviews and an unpleasant box office start with an estimated $8 million…especially considering its nearest competition, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, held its own with an estimated $6.1 million and broke into $100 million in domestic gross.

Carrie did have a precipitous drop-off from its debut, but its estimated $5.9 million this week, did not turn out to be as large a problem as might be seen at first glance; while in no way a runaway success, it will most likely manage to make its money back at the very least. The same could not likely be said for Escape Plan, whose estimated $4.3 million leaves the high caliber action film with only $17.4 million domestically…far below what a film starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger likely cost. However, while numbers have not been released for 12 Years a Slave, critical acclaim and an estimated $2.2 million speak well for a film in a week in which it gained an additional 104 theaters of release for a grand total of $3.4 million domestic. Neither are there numbers for Enough Said, but the romantic comedy still holds on well for its sixth week with an estimated $1.6 million.

Finally, Prisoners seems likely to drop off the list, but it does not leave a loser…the thriller’s estimated $1.1 million signals a nice end to a medium-weight performance, having made $59.1 million on a $46 million production budget.

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Weekend Box Office (October 26th – 27th)

  1. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa…$32 million
  2. Gravity…$20.3 million
  3. Captain Phillips…$11.8 million
  4. The Counselor…$8 million
  5. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2…$6.1 million
  6. Carrie…$5.9 million
  7. Escape Plan…$4.3 million
  8. 12 Years a Slave…$2.2 million
  9. Enough Said…$1.6 million
  10. Prisoners…$1.1 million

Seth Paul

When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."
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