Weekend Box Office: Another Bomb-Filled Weekend
by EG
It should probably be no surprise that the past weekend was not a lucrative one at the box office. Saturday was Halloween, the weather was not good across much of the country, and the new movies in theaters were not the kind that inspire much enthusiasm among wide audiences. Still, the weekend turned out to be worse -- the worst weekend, ticket-sales-wise, of the year so far, in fact -- than even those factors would predict.
The top four films were all hold-overs, with The Martian and Goosebumps remaining strong in the top two spots, with gross earnings of $11.4 million and $10.2 million, respectively. Third and fourth place, respectively, went to Bridge of Spies and Hotel Transylvania 2. The highest-grossing of the week's new movies was Bradley Cooper's Burnt, which took in $5 million.
Following the top five were more hold-overs -- The Last Witch Hunter and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension -- in sixth and seventh place. The week's second new film, Sandra Bullock's Our Brand Is Crisis came in eighth with a dismall take of $3.4 million.
The week's final new wide release, Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse, took in $1.8 million and settled into twelfth place.