Weekend Box Office: Hotel Transylvania 2 Takes a Bite Out of Competition

From this week's box office results, we learned several interesting facts. We learned that audiences don't seem to have the thirst for blood that they used to, and we learned that moviegoers seem to like Adam Sandler more when they can't see him.

This week's top performer, in terms of ticket sales, was Hotel Transylvania 2, an animated comedy starring the voices of Sandler, Kevin James and many other big names. The sequel took in $47.5 million over the weekend, a record for a September debut and a much more impressive debut than most of Sandler's recent films. It helped that there has not been a new film suitable for family audiences in theaters for quite some time.

Second place went to The Intern, a new comedy starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. The film earned $18.2 million. Third place went to holdover The Mazerunner: Scorch Trials, and fourth place was secured by Everest, which went into wide release this weekend. Fifth place went to another holdover, Black Mass.

The weekend's third wide release, Eli Roth's bloody cannibal thriller The Green Inferno, had a disappointing weekend, pulling in only $3.5 million. That was enough to crack the top ten, but only barely; the film finished the weekend in ninth place.