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Posted October 12, 2014 by Seth Paul in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: Dracula Draws Little Blood


Despite heavy promotion and promises of epic adventure, Dracula Untold (estimated $23.5 million) took a back seat to more subtle fare as Gone Girl (estimated $26.8 million) took the first-place spot once more. Not to say Dracula Untold will be a failure…accounting for worldwide box office, it has achieved $86.1 million and already bested its $70 million budget…but it has proven unpopular with critics and has a long fight to make itself profitable domestically. On the other hand, third-place finisher Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day has little to fear, with an estimated $19.1 million already a good start to its $28 million costs, as well as mildly positive critical praise giving it a leg up.

Gone GirlAnnabelle went last week without providing budget numbers, but if it had cost as much as The Conjuring it would be doing pretty well. However, in a stunning reveal, the horror film cost less than half of the original at $6.5 million; with an estimated $16.4 million, it has made $62.2 million and, more than likely, continuing further tales in the world The Conjuring brought to light. It certainly struck a deeper chord than the middling reception for The Judge, whose estimated $13.3 million puts the star-studded legal drama in a rough place to make back its $50 million costs, while The Equalizer and its tumble to sixth and an estimated $9.7 million has been a good run for Denzel Washington both here and abroad.

The debut of Addicted, based on the erotic thriller novel by the author known as Zane, arrived in the face of rough critical panning and an estimated $7.6 million on an unreported budget (and unlikely to see the kinds of numbers Annabelle has seen). However, it is surrounded by (mostly) good company; save for The Maze Runner (estimated $7.5 million) and its $83.8 million in the bank, the final movies on the list are hurting for cash. The Boxtrolls is floating on a safety cushion thanks to overseas earnings and a small shot in the arm with an estimated $6.7 million domestically, but the universally panned Left Behind with Nicolas Cage has no such safety cushion, and an estimated $2.9 million is not even enough to bring it within spitting distance of its paltry $16 million budget.

Weekend Box Office (October 10th – October 12th)

  1. Gone Girl…$26.8 million
  2. Dracula Untold…$23.5 million
  3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day…$19.1 million
  4. Annabelle…$16.4 million
  5. The Judge…$13.3 million
  6. The Equalizer…$9.7 million
  7. Addicted…$7.6 million
  8. The Maze Runner…$7.5 million
  9. The Boxtrolls…$6.7 million
  10. Left Behind…$2.9 million
Seth Paul

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."