Out with the old and in with the new
(it will make sense when you reach nº1). Last week, writer/director Jorge R.
Gutierrez animation The Book of Life was holding on to fifth, but it looks that
two new openings was all it took to push it down to the bottom. The Guillermo
del Toro produced animation has surpassed its production budget in $24 million,
but that's not nearly enough to consider the film a success, on the contrary,
let's not forget marketing costs and theaters percentages.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible,
no Good, Very Bad Day has been given an extended life warranty thanks to the
lack of any family comedies. Unlike the foreign markets where the film flopped,
the North-American audience opened its arms to the PG comedy, where it made
most of its money.
Keanu Reeves "comeback" is
more of a sneaking into the backdoor kind of thing than it was a Mardi Gras
parade bursting through the front. Regardless of John Wick's downward spiral in
the chart, it has been making a few millions along the way, and that's why it
doubled its $20 million budget.
David Ayer's portrayal of a tank crew
in World War II in Fury dropped significantly from last week's position. It seems that the Oscar buzz didn't really
affect the film's box office revenue, which is not to say that it didn't made
its money back and then some.
Another movie with Oscar buzz all around
is Dan Gilroy's peak at Los Angeles insidious, nocturnal, ambulance chasing
"news" reporters. The budget for Nightcawler hasn't been divulged but
I would venture to guess that it is around the $20 million mark (give or take
the odd $10 million), and if so the film still has quite a long-ish road ahead
of it.
This year's yo-yo film is without a doubt
Theodore Melfi's St. Vincent. From 36th, to 15th, to 6th, to 7th, and now 5th
place, this film is literally all over the chart. Like Nightcrawler the budget
is unknown so it's difficult to ascertain if it’s a flop or not. I wonder what
is place will be after next week's premieres.
There isn't much to say about Ouija. It
is one of this year's biggest box-office winners, not because it made such a
ridiculous amount of money, but because it was made with is so little.
David Fincher's Gone Girl doesn't
have legs it has stilts. Not only is Gone Girl Fincher's second highest
grossing film in the North-American market (Seven leads after price inflation),
but also his third highest grossing film Worldwide (The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button and Seven lead).
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
premiered with a bang, more on so internationally where it made $80 million,
then at home where it still made $52 million. The total is already close enough
to its production budget that only if the World ended tomorrow would this film
not become a hit.
Out with the old and in with the new.
Disney's Big Hero 6 just managed to take the first place from Christopher
Nolan's Interstellar. However, the worldwide tally is nowhere near enough
Nolan's race to save humankind, and both films have identical budgets.
|
|
Movie
|
Weekend
|
Total
Worldwide
|
Week
|
|
1
|
Big Hero 6
|
$56,200,000
|
$79,200,000
|
1
|
|
2
|
Interstellar
|
$50,000,000
|
$132,151,000
|
1
|
|
3
|
Gone
Girl
|
$6,100,000
|
$294,809,828
|
6
|
|
4
|
Ouija
|
$6,017,000
|
$56,772,000
|
3
|
|
5
|
St.
Vincent
|
$5,707,000
|
$27,720,558
|
5
|
|
6
|
Nightcrawler
|
$5,512,000
|
$21,525,000
|
2
|
|
7
|
Fury
|
$5,500,000
|
$107,377,709
|
4
|
|
8
|
John
Wick
|
$4,075,000
|
$42,745,000
|
3
|
|
9
|
Alexander
and the…
|
$3,495,000
|
$78,508,000
|
5
|
|
10
|
The
Book of Life
|
$2,800,000
|
$74,015,000
|
4
|
(*) - North-American Market Only
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