Nothing all that new to report that wasn’t previously discussed yesterday morning as this weekend’s estimates were pretty much spot on.
Antoine Fuqua‘s The Equalizer starring Denzel Washington took the #1 spot to the tune of $34.1 million, which was about $900,000 less than estimated, but that’s no huge surprise. Opening day audiences gave the film an “A-” CinemaScore, which could make next weekend’s drop interesting, though facing off against David Fincher‘s Gone Girl and Annabelle could be tough given there are so many R-rated movies today’s movie going audiences can support at once.
In second was last weekend’s #1 film, The Maze Runner, which dropped only 46.4% to $17.4 million, which is far better than we saw from Liam Neeson‘s A Walk Among the Tombstones, which fell 67.1% and finished its sophomore weekend with $4.1 million.
The weekend’s other new release was Laika’s The BoxTrolls, which earned the stop motion animation studio its highest opening to date at $17.2 million. Tough to know right now how well it will holdover, but that’s a good start.
When it comes to the Box Office Challenge, I’ve listed the current top ten from the points and accuracy leaderboards directly below and you can find the full leaderboard here. For the complete box office top ten and points awarded for this weekend specifically click here.
Points Leaderboard Top 10
- J T (67 points)
- Alan Smithee (57 points)
- PJ Edwards (53 points)
- austinjoel (52 points)
- Nathan (51 points)
- Arthur Carlson (46 points)
- Matt P (41 points)
- Abraham Sánchez (40 points)
- Stephen Jay (40 points)
- Vaus (38 points)
Accuracy Leaderboard Top 10
- J T (83.87% accuracy)
- Return of the BT (81.93% accuracy)
- Exxdee13 (79.637% accuracy)
- Ryan Jayden (79.387% accuracy)
- Rob (78.795% accuracy)
- Matt Taylor (77.939% accuracy)
- Mykael (77.715% accuracy)
- Jack Tyler (77.581% accuracy)
- Arthur Carlson (77.279% accuracy)
- zm (77.194% accuracy)
