The last weekend of September was a bit quiet as the two new releases underperformed. The Magnificent Seven is the new box office champion after grossing $35 million during its opening weekend. Westerns are an interesting genre and I’m expecting this film to at least reach $100 million domestically.
Storks came in second place with a comfortable $21.8 million during its opening weekend. The film has garnered some positive reviews which could help give it a successful box office run. Sully drops to third this week with $13.8 million and has pushed its domestic gross to over $90 million. It will cross $100 million domestically next week.
Fourth, fifth and sixth place this week goes to the films that have been released for ten days. Bridget Jones’s Baby with $ 4.5 million, Snowden with $4.1 million and Blair Witch with $4 million. The original Blair Witch Project grossed over $140 million domestically and it doesn’t appear this film will come close to that total at all.
Suicide Squad brought in $3.1 million and has now grossed $318.1 million domestically. It is now the 14th highest grossing superhero film after just passing Iron Man 2 reports Box Office Mojo. It seems it will probably finish just below Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice’s gross of $330.4 million.
I think The Magnificent Seven can repeat as champion even with the addition of three new releases this upcoming weekend including Deepwater Horizon, the new drama based on the true events of what happened on an oil rig in 2010.
Weekend Gross by Distributor:
Sony Pictures: $41.9 million (+29.4 percent)
Warner Bros: $39.1 million (+11.2 percent)
Lionsgate: $6.7 million (-10 percent)
Universal: $5.7 million (-4.8 percent)
Open Road: $4.1 million (-3.9 percent)
Disney: $1.8 million (-1.6 percent)
Focus Features: $1.1 million (-1.4 percent)
STX Entertainment: $1 million (-0.8 percent)
Next week’s opening include Deepwater Horizon, Masterminds and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.