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Box Office Weekend: Spectre Revives Box Office

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

After last week proved to be the weakest box office in some time, James Bond returned for a smashing weekend to raising flagging hopes. At an estimated $73 million, Spectre won the top spot handsomely, but the film will have a lot of work to do to make back its $245 million production costs, even counting worldwide take. The same holds true for the critically acclaimed The Peanuts Movie. At a cost of $99 million Spectre Posterto make, Charlie Brown and company made their first appearance in CG animation, but at an estimated $45 million, it, too, will have a lot of work to do to ensure it becomes a hit.

The Martian remains the strongest domestic winner with a third-place finish and an estimated $9.3 million adding to $197.1 million in gross totals; Goosebumps (estimated $7 million) and Bridge of Spies (estimated $6.1 million), in the meantime, have proven critically decent, but slow at the box office, with both needing (and not getting) much help from overseas dollars. Hotel Transylvania 2, in the meantime, is finally happy to report its costs…with an estimated $3.6 million boosting it to the break-even point domestically on its $80 million budget, the film has proven to be a major success counting foreign box office, with $404.2 million in worldwide gross.

Seventh and eighth place go to Burnt (estimated $3 million) and The Last Witch Hunter (estimated $2.7 million), and neither film is looking good. Burnt has made $10.2 million gross against a $20 million budget, and The Last Witch Hunter refuses to release its numbers, though the Vin Diesel action flick has done surprisingly well overseas…whether that is enough to make bank is another story entirely.

Finally, The Intern came back to the top ten with an estimated $1.8 million and a reported budget. At $35 million to make, the film broke even here, but worldwide proved a whopping success with over $180 million taken in. So, too, are the fortunes of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. While still the worst performing of the whole series (and at $10 million, cost twice as much as any of the previous films), its estimated $1.7 million weekend and $16.3 million in domestic earnings pales compared to its worldwide total of $67.1 million…proving once again that a movie series, even at greatly diminishing returns, can still be profitable as long as it is cheap.

Weekend Box Office (November 6th – November 8th)

  1. Spectre…$73 million
  2. The Peanuts Movie…$45 million
  3. The Martian…$9.3 million
  4. Goosebumps…$7 million
  5. Bridge of Spies…$6.1 million
  6. Hotel Transylvania 2…$3.6 million
  7. Burnt…$3 million
  8. The Last Witch Hunter…$2.7 million
  9. The Intern…$1.8 million
  10. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension…$1.7 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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