'Sully' Still the Fall's Top Movie

We're eight weeks into the fall movie season, and the top-performing film of the autumn is still a movie that debuted eight weeks ago. Sully, the only movie to manage to stay at number one for more than a single week since the beginning of September, continues to be the highest-grossing film of the fall season and the only fall-released film to make it into the top 20 films of 2016.

Sully debuted to an unexpectedly strong $35 million when it opened on the weekend of September 9, and only The Magnificent Seven, which debuted to $34.7 million the weekend of September 23, has come close to matching that total. Of the 14 new wide releases since Sully premiered, only The Magnificent Seven has earned more than $30 million in its opening weekend, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is the only other film to earn more than $25 million.

Perhaps more concerning is that of those 14 new films, half have earned less than $10 million in their opening weekends.

The next two weekends aren't going to challenge Sully's hold on the fall title, either. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is forecast to meet the mid-$20-million bar this weekend. Next week's Inferno, which, like Sully, stars Tom Hanks, might come close, but with Marvel's Doctor Strange bowing just a week later, Inferno will only have one week in the top spot, just like every other fall movie so far.