Brad Pitt and his tank full of awesome tracked their way to the top of the box office for the weekend of October 17-19th, 2014 While “Fury” did well it didn’t do great and wasn’t too far ahead of “Gone Girl” which was entering its third week of release. It could possibly be due to minimal marketing, mixed with the subject matter not being universally appealing. Regardless of the reason it still should end up around $80 million.
Coming up just behind “Gone Girl” was the new animated flick “The Book of Life” which did about average along with other recent animated films including last months “The Boxtrolls” and other family films like “Alexander.”
Next week sees smaller films like the horror flick “Ouija” and the Keanu revenge flick “John Wick”
| Rank | Title | Weekend Gross | % Change | Total Gross | Week # | ||||||
| 1 | Fury (2014) | $23,702,421 | – | $23,702,421 | 1 | ||||||
| 2 | Gone Girl | $17,511,956 | -33.7% | $106,780,820 | 3 | ||||||
| 3 | The Book of Life (2014) | $17,005,218 | – | $17,005,218 | 1 | ||||||
| 4 | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | $11,456,954 | -37.6% | $36,288,619 | 2 | ||||||
| 5 | The Best of Me | $10,003,827 | – | $10,003,827 | 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 films 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.