After a few indecisive weeks in twelfth and eleventh place, director Alejandro González Iñarritu's dark comedy/drama finally managed to break in to the top ten. Birdman is a miserly $6.5 million short of reaching its production budget, however the film is yet to open in foreign markets, which it will only do early next year. Between now and then the film will be traveling through all the festivals. If you haven't seen Iñarritu's stab at Hollywood and movie stardom you should, as it is one of (if not THE) best movies of the year, with a great shot at getting some nominations for best picture, director, actor (Michael Keaton), and much more. The spirits have left the building and Ouija drops from fourth to ninth. Despite of the hit the horror movie is in the top 100 most profitable movies of the year thanks to its miniscule budget of $5 million. With a slightly higher budget is writer/director Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler, which like Birdman is one of the best movies of the year, with a great shot at getting some Oscar nominations, especially for Jake Gyllenhaal. Nightcrawler still has a few foreign markets left to explore so we should see it at least maintaining its position until next week. It's no surprise that writer/director David Ayer's World War II drama is still hanging around in seventh place. Fury has legs or tracks, mainly because of the genre. Yes, it is a drama, but it's also a War film, which puts it aside from the rest of the "competitors". Writer/director Theodore Melfi's St. Vincent continues to hang in the middle of countdown. In its seventh week, David Fincher's Gone Girl is still holding on to its position in the top five portion of the list. The film is already one of the director's highest grossing movies of all time, behind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Seven. Writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood's (The Secret Life of Bees) Beyond the Lights premieres in fourth, which isn't bad considering the lack of mainstream star power. The film is being called formulaic, and cheesy, but considering its more than fresh status (84%) on Rotten Tomatoes, one should think twice before saying no to it. Coming in third with $233 million and change is Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Despite the big fan base, Nolan has managed to polarize fans with this somewhat "complicated" story. Disney's Big Hero 6 has yet to hit its budget, however Baymax and team has more than enough charisma to pull children and parents to theaters.
Silence. Dull. Lazy. Uninspired. Flat.
Sad, and yet funny, is how directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly Dumb and Dumber
To is being described. Regardless of its low critic score, the sequel to the
1994 comedy takes the number one spot in this week's countdown.
Just an aside. Surprisingly out of
the top 10 are two premieres, John Stewart's Rosewater and one of the most
talked about and anticipated movies of the year, Foxcatcher starring Steve
Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum. The Oscar contender made $288,000 in
just six theaters, while Stewart's directorial debut (which premiered higher
than Foxcatcher) grossed $1,200,000 in 371 theaters.
Movie
|
Weekend
|
Total
Worldwide
|
Week
|
|
1
|
Dumb and Dumber To*
|
$38,053,000
|
$38,053,000
|
1
|
2
|
Big
Hero 6
|
$36,010,000
|
$148,353,000
|
2
|
3
|
Interstellar
|
$29,190,000
|
$233,310,000
|
2
|
4
|
Beyond
the Lights*
|
$6,500,000
|
$6,500,000
|
1
|
5
|
Gone
Girl
|
$4,625,000
|
$314,466,652
|
7
|
6
|
St.
Vincent
|
$4,025,000
|
$33,782,061
|
6
|
7
|
Fury
|
$3,819,000
|
$127,441,000
|
5
|
8
|
Nightcrawler
|
$3,038,000
|
$26,769,000
|
3
|
9
|
Ouija
|
$3,025,000
|
$61,405,000
|
4
|
10
|
Birdman*
|
$2,450,000
|
$11,575,000
|
5
|
(*) - North-American Market Only
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