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Weekend Box Office Report
October 13 - October 15, 2017




By Daniel Garris

Weekend Actuals Update:

With actuals now in, Universal’s Happy Death Day came in slightly below yesterday’s studio estimate with a strong first place debut of $26.039 M.

Warner’s Blade Runner 2049 came in slightly ahead of yesterday’s estimate with $15.492 M, as did STXfilms' The Foreigner with a debut of $13.113 M.

Other weekend actuals for the frame include: IT ($6.056 M), The Mountain Between Us ($5.751 M), American Made ($5.501 M), Kingsman: The Golden Circle ($5.379 M), The LEGO Ninjago Movie ($4.316 M), My Little Pony: The Movie ($4.112 M), Victoria & Abdul ($3.006 M), Marshall ($3.001 M) and Professor Marston & the Wonder Women ($737 K).

Weekend Estimates Update:

Universal’s Happy Death Day debuted in first place this weekend with an estimated $26.50 M. The low-budget PG-13 rated horror film from Blumhouse Productions exceeded expectations, which had tended to range from $16 M to $21 M heading into the weekend. Happy Death Day represents another strong performer for Universal and Blumhouse in 2017; joining both Get Out and Split from earlier in the year. Happy Death Day opened 4.2 percent ahead of the $25.43 M launch of 2015’s The Visit (another fairly recent successful low-budget horror film from Universal and Blumhouse). Happy Death Day received a boost from opening on Friday the 13th and from the relative lack of PG-13 rated fare in the marketplace as of late. The film also looks to have been aided by receiving solid critical reviews. Happy Death Day has a current rating of 6.687 on our LoveHate Rate aggregate measurement of critical and online user ratings.

Happy Death Day registered $11.65 M on Friday the 13th (which included an estimated $1.00 M from Thursday night shows that began at 7PM), declined an understandable 19.6 percent on Saturday to take in $9.37 M and is estimated to slide 41.4 percent on Sunday to gross $5.49 M. Going forward, Happy Death Day will hope to hold up well throughout the rest of October in the lead-up to Halloween. Happy Death Day received a B rating on CinemaScore, which is very solid for a horror film.

Warner’s Blade Runner 2049 placed in second with an estimated $15.10 M. On the heels of last weekend’s lackluster start, Blade Runner 2049 was down a sizable 53.9 percent this weekend as strong critical reviews still don’t appear to be helping the film all that much. The ten-day total for Blade Runner 2049 stands at a significantly softer than expected $60.58 M. Blade Runner 2049 is running 5.5 percent ahead of the $57.44 M ten-day start of Alien: Covenant earlier this year and 31.2 percent behind the $88.08 M ten-day haul of 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road.

STXfilms’ The Foreigner opened in third place with an estimated $12.84 M. The Jackie Chan led action-thriller opened towards the higher end of expectations, which had ranged from $10 M to $14 M. The Foreigner represented the first Jackie Chan vehicle to receive a wide release since the release of The Spy Next Door back in January of 2010. The Foreigner debuted 32.0 percent ahead of the $9.73 M three-day start of The Spy Next Door.

The Foreigner started out with $4.75 M on Friday (which included an estimated $775 K from Thursday night shows that began at 7PM), increased a slim 3.2 percent on Saturday to take in $4.90 M and is estimated to decrease 34.9 percent on Sunday to take in $3.19 M. The Foreigner has received mixed critical reviews, but is going over better with online uses. The film has a current LoveHate Rate of 6.830. The Foreigner looks to be going over well with audiences, as the film received a healthy A- rating on CinemaScore.

Warner’s IT took fourth place with an estimated $6.05 M. IT was down 39.3 percent from last weekend, which represented a very solid hold, especially given the new competition the film faced from Happy Death Day. Like Happy Death Day, IT also received a boost this weekend from Friday the 13th. IT has grossed a massive $314.93 M in 38 days, which currently ranks the film in 60th place on the all-time domestic list. IT grossed $10.4 M internationally this weekend, which brings the film’s international total to $315.7 M and worldwide haul to $630.6 M.

It was a fairly close race for places fifth through seventh this weekend between Fox’s The Mountain Between Us, Universal’s American Made and Fox’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle. The Mountain Between Us currently has the edge for fifth place with an estimated $5.65 M, American Made took sixth place with an estimated $5.42 M and Kingsman: The Golden Circle claimed seventh with an estimated $5.32 M. The Mountain Between Us was down 46.5 percent from last weekend, American Made declined just 35.8 percent, while Kingsman: The Golden Circle slowed by 38.7 percent. Respective total grosses stand at $89.65 M for Kingsman: The Golden Circle in 24 days, at $40.15 M for American Made in 17 days and at $20.50 M for The Mountain Between Us in ten days.

Animated films The LEGO Ninjago Movie and My Little Pony: The Movie claimed eighth and ninth place with respective estimated grosses of $4.32 M and $4.00 M. Warner’s The LEGO Ninjago Movie declined 38.4 percent from last weekend, while Lionsgate's My Little Pony: The Movie was down a sharp 55.0 percent. Respective total grosses stand at $51.58 M in 24 days for The LEGO Ninjago Movie and at $15.51 M in ten days for My Little Pony: The Movie.

Meanwhile, Open Road’s Marshall debuted in eleventh place with an estimated $3.04 M. Marshall registered a respectable per-location average of $3,702 from a moderate 821 locations. The film opened on the low end of expectations, which ranged from $3 M to $5 M for the frame. Marshall has received strong critical reviews and has a current LoveHate Rate of 7.768.





Weekend Studio Estimates for October 13 - October 15, 2017.

Film (Distributor) Weekend
Gross
Theatre
Count
Per-Thea.
Average
%Change
Total
Gross
TG to OW
Ratio
Week
1 Happy Death Day
(Universal)
$26,500,000 3,149 $8,415 NEW $26,500,000 1.000 1
2 Blade Runner 2049
(Warner Bros.)
$15,100,000 4,058 $3,721 -53.9% $60,578,000 1.850 2
3 The Foreigner
(STXfilms)
$12,840,000 2,515 $5,105 NEW $12,840,000 1.000 1
4 IT
(Warner / New Line)
$6,050,000 3,176 $1,905 -39.3% $314,930,000 2.552 6
5 The Mountain Between Us
(Fox)
$5,650,000 3,259 $1,734 -46.5% $20,503,000 1.943 2
6 American Made
(Universal)
$5,423,000 3,098 $1,750 -35.8% $40,153,000 2.393 3
7 Kingsman: The Golden Circle
(Fox)
$5,315,000 2,982 $1,782 -38.7% $89,652,000 2.297 4
8 The LEGO Ninjago Movie
(Warner Bros.)
$4,315,000 3,053 $1,413 -38.4% $51,578,000 2.524 4
9 My Little Pony: The Movie
(Lionsgate)
$4,000,000 2,528 $1,582 -55.0% $15,513,000 1.746 2
10 Victoria & Abdul
(Focus)
$3,115,000 900 $3,461 -25.3% $11,342,000 2.719 4
11 Marshall
(Open Road)
$3,039,000 821 $3,702 NEW $3,039,000 1.000 1
12 Flatliners
(Sony / Columbia)
$1,500,000 1,983 $756 -62.3% $15,628,000 2.377 3
13 Battle of the Sexes
(Fox Searchlight)
$1,375,000 1,394 $986 -46.3% $10,389,000 3.040 4
14 Professor Marston & the
Wonder Women
(Annapurna Pictures)
$737,000 1,229 $600 NEW $737,000 1.000 1
15 American Assassin
(Lionsgate / CBS Films)
$525,000 820 $640 -62.2% $35,608,000 2.398 5

The Florida Project
(A24)
$401,000 33 $12,156 154.6% $624,000 1.555 2
'Til Death Do Us Part
(Novus Content)
$319,000 400 $799 -57.5% $3,259,000 2.134 3
The Stray
(Purdie Distribution)
$300,000 430 $698 -49.7% $1,205,000 2.020 2
Despicable Me 3
(Universal)
$243,000 266 $914 -16.1% $263,013,000 3.631 16
Home Again
(Open Road)
$167,000 361 $463 -70.6% $26,801,000 3.128 6
A Question of Faith
(Pure Flix)
$155,000 228 $680 -65.8% $2,196,000 2.142 3
American Satan
(Sumerian Films)
$132,000 55 $2,400 NEW $132,000 1.000 1
mother!
(Paramount)
$125,000 159 $786 -67.8% $17,631,000 2.340 5
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought
Down the White House
(Sony Pictures Classics)
$124,000 89 $1,390 +106.4% $257,000 2.078 3
Stronger
(Roadside)
$115,000 174 $661 -58.6% $4,039,000 2.507 4
Judwaa 2
(Fox International Productions)
$110,000 106 $1,038 -64.8% $1,413,000 2.214 3
Wind River
(Weinstein Company)
$107,000 194 $551 -48.2% $33,455,000 7.271 11
Leap!
(Weinstein Company)
$99,287 185 $537 -53.2% $21,426,000 4.530 8
Cars 3
(Disney)
$95,000 119 $798 -14.8% $152,751,000 2.845 18
The Hitman's Bodyguard
(Lionsgate / Summit)
$83,000 165 $503 -50.7% $75,187,000 3.516 9
Goodbye Christopher Robin
(Fox Searchlight)
$55,800 9 $6,200 NEW $55,800 1.000 1
The Big Sick
(Lionsgate / Amazon)
$27,500 64 $430 +31.3% $42,862,000 5.667 17
Breathe
(Bleecker Street)
$26,254 4 $6,564 NEW $26,254 1.000 1
Brad's Status
(Annapurna / Amazon)
$23,300 39 $597 -79.2% $2,112,000 2.216 5
Chavela
(Music Box Films)
$19,778 14 $1,413 -11.9% $61,162 2.724 2
Wasted!
(Super LTD)
$15,552 11 $1,414 NEW $15,552 1.000 1
Friend Request
(Entertainment Studios
Motion Pictures)
$11,482 50 $230 -84.7% $3,735,000 1.865 4
Beach Rats
(NEON)
$2,935 8 $367 -65.4% $468,000 6.411 8
Tulip Fever
(Weinstein Company)
$2,244 6 $374 -67.2% $2,405,000 2.077 7
Ingrid Goes West
(NEON)
$2,032 5 $406 -43.0% $3,020,000 3.857 10
47 Meters Down
(Entertainment Studios
Motion Pictures)
$401 1 $401 -83.7% $44,307,000 3.954 18

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