Unlike Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Riddick will not be enjoying three weeks at the top of the box office. In only its second week, the Vin Diesel sci-fi thriller got knocked to third place with an estimated $7 million. In its place, Insidious Chapter 2 rallied the box office to spooky effect, bringing in an estimated $41.1 million. Even with critics claiming it is nowhere near as effective as the original, it proved more than effective enough to blow past its $5 million production costs. Second place went to the darkly themed comedy The Family. Its debut is much closer to the Riddick debut of last week with an estimated $14.5 million and a $30 million budget to make back (Riddick is still a few million shy of making back its $38 million).
Instructions Not Included (estimated $4.3 million) has managed to bring in $26.6 million so far, though the indie film refuses to officially release its production numbers. If rumors are to be believed and it is a similar $5 million to Insidious Chapter 2, it is a financial success on its own merits. So, too, is the similar box office of One Direction: This is Us, but the concert film dropped to eighth place with an estimated $2.4 million, showing a distinct lack of box office draw after its debut. Planes landed neatly in-between with an estimated $3.1 million, doing moderate business but still lacking the critical and financial acclaim of other Disney ventures. Still, it has performed better domestically than Turbo and Smurfs 2, though Smurfs 2 did better than either film outside of the U.S.
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Speaking of better overseas performance, Elysium came in ninth with an estimated $2.1 million, and while it failed to make back its money here, it pulled in a grand worldwide total of $232.4 million, ensuring it at least modest success if not great acclaim. It finally pairs up with similarly boated Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters at long last, the children’s action film earning an estimated $1.8 million and little chance of making its $90 million costs back domestically, though it has done decent business ($164.6 million) worldwide.
Weekend Box Office (September 13th – September 15th)
- Insidious: Chapter 2…$41.1 million
- The Family…$14.1 million
- Riddick…$7 million
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler…$5.6 million
- We’re the Millers…$5.4 million
- Instructions Not Included…$4.3 million
- Planes…$3.1 million
- One Direction: This is Us…$2.4 million
- Elysium…$2.1 million
- Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters…$1.8 million
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