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Box Office Weekend: Gone Girl Takes Box Office With It

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

The box office continues to climb as two big names pull in the bucks, though critical acclaim is divided between them. The biggest draw (and biggest critical winner) is director David Fincher’s Gone Girl with an estimated $38 million. With a $61 million budget it has a ways to go, but it has gotten a good head start. But things might be looking even better for Annabelle. Though panned and not releasing its budget numbers, it picked up an estimated $37.2 million…and if it cost roughly the same as the previous The Conjuring ($20 million), it is already doing quite well regardless of opinion.

The Equalizer has to take third place to the newcomers, but it found a decent second weekend with an estimated $19 million and gross profit at the box office. The Boxtrolls, on the other hand, is struggling to make much of a dent in its costs with an estimated $12.4 million, making in total a little over its $60 million production costs. The Maze Runner, meanwhile, may have tumbled from second to fifth with an estimated $12 million, but it has out grossed both The Boxtrolls and The Equalizer, with $73.9 million in total revenue.

Sixth place lays claim to the rancorously panned Left Behind, starring Nicolas Cage and based on the book series, which debuted with an estimated $6.9 million. With no numbers reported, such an opening would likely make it a bomb, but it is a step up from the 2000 original starring Kirk Cameron, which made less in its entire run than the 2014 production did in a weekend. Beneath it, very little has changed, although the biggest surprise is the drop in revenue for No Good Deed, which fell to tenth with an estimated $2.5 million. The rest all experienced typical drops; This is Where I Leave You added to its success with an estimated $4 million, Dolphin Tale 2 broke even with an estimated $3.5 million, and Guardians of the Galaxy may be in ninth with an estimated $3 million, but still shows the rest of the top ten who is boss, retaining the title of highest domestic grosser of 2014.

Weekend Box Office (October 3rd – October 5th)

  1. Gone Girl…$38 million
  2. Annabelle…$37.2 million
  3. The Equalizer…$19 million
  4. The Boxtrolls…$12.3 million
  5. The Maze Runner…$12 million
  6. Left Behind…$6.9 million
  7. This is Where I Leave You…$4 million
  8. Dolphin Tale 2…$3.5 million
  9. Guardians of the Galaxy…$3.8 million
  10. No Good Deed…$2.5 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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