“Spectre” was able to keep the top for a second week and is closing in on $130 million. While it is performing well in the US it is still doing better overseas. It has now opened in China and has made over $400 million overseas. The last film in “The Hunger Games” series releases this weekend so “Spectre” is done at the top but should stay in the top 5.
“The Peanuts Movie” also had a good holdover and is now over $80 million domestically. It has one more weekend to make money before any competition comes in to eat away at its market. “The Good Dinosaur” should take away all of that market really.
Newcomers “The 33” and “Love the Coopers” both made the top 5 but aren’t anything special, in fact our reviewer absolutely loathed Coopers.
| Rank | Title | Studio | Weekend Gross | % Change | Total Gross | Week # | |||||
| 1 | Spectre | Sony | $33,681,104 | -52.2% | $128,981,285 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | The Peanuts Movie | Fox | $24,013,538 | -45.7% | $82,303,394 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | Love the Coopers | CBS | $8,317,545 | – | $8,317,545 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | The Martian | Fox | $6,712,171 | -26.0% | $207,394,787 | 7 | |||||
| 5 | The 33 | WB | $5,787,266 | – | $5,787,266 | 1 | |||||
A quick note on budgets and dollar figures:
Films making back their budgets is a good sign, but that is just the money to film. It doesn’t include distribution and marketing. Marketing can cost as much as a film. That big Superbowl spot is spendy. So take that into account when judging a film’s success. Hitting $100 million isn’t the same as it once was.
All dollar amounts in the top 5 come from estimates based on ticket sales unless noted otherwise. Occasionally this article will be published when actual results come out, which is usually late Monday afternoon. For more about this and other ins and outs of movie tracking click here.