Nobody does it better than new James Bond film
Latest 007 flick pulls in a cool $73M as ‘Peanuts Movie’ takes second.
Secret agent James Bond rescued the box office after a string of October flops and propelled “Spectre,” the latest in the 007 franchise, to an estimated $73 million first-place finish for the weekend, followed by a solid showing for “The Peanuts Movie.”
“Spectre,” which stars Daniel Craig as the debonair, martini-drinking spy for the fourth time, had ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada that fell within the range of projections from the industry and from Sony, which produced the film with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and EON Productions.
Coming in second for the weekend was 20th Century Fox’s “The Peanuts Movie” with $45 million in domestic ticket sales.
The weekend’s No. 3 film was “The Martian,” which added $9.3 million in its sixth weekend. The picture, also from 20th Century Fox, had led the box office four out of the previous five weekends. It has grossed an estimated $197.1 million in the U.S. and Canada.
Completing the top five were Sony’s “Goosebumps,” which pulled in $7 million, and Disney’s “Bridge of Spies,” which brought in $6.1 million. Both films were in their fourth weekend.
“Spotlight,” director Tom McCarthy’s drama about the Boston Globe’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of priest sexual abuse, did well in its first weekend of limited release. The Open Road film starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams averaged $60,455 on five screens, the best per-screen number of the week. It was followed by “Brooklyn,” starring Saoirse Ronan, which averaged $36,200 on five screens.
The box office as a whole remains up 5 percent compared with 2014, and big titles are on the horizon: “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2” arrives Nov. 20, followed by Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” on Nov. 25 and Disney’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” on Dec. 18.
Coming this week: Aaron Eckhart plays University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal in “My All American.” Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt played married folks who no longer like each other in “By the Sea.”