Spectre still leads USA box office

Considering the buzz around Spectre, the film could open somewhere in the range of Rs 25-30 cr over its four-day weekend which would put along with Jurassic World’s Rs 24 cr weekend but shy of Age of Ultron’s Rs 36 cr opening.

The Peanuts Movie is the second in line to have held out for a second consecutive week, according to BoxOfficeMojo. As well as it’s doing in North America, the movie’s overseas profits will make the $245 million picture profitable.

[Photo Image via 21st Century Fox]The Peanuts Movie benefits from a solid and recognizable brand which may help keep a few wind in its sails in the coming weeks, however, despite the relative staying power of such family-friendly animated films, the coming weeks, particularly Thanksgiving weekend, sees a few powerhouse competitors looking to knock it out of the top 10, including the latest in the wildly popular Hunger Games franchise.

But the runner-up for a second straight weekend closed the gap a bit. But last week’s powerhouses “Spectre” and “The Peanuts Movie” won at the box office.

Love the Coopers opened to a better-than-expected $8.4-M from 2,603 theaters.

The China number wasn’t that far from the total Chinese haul of “Skyfall”, the last 007 film that took in $59 million behind the Great Wall in 2012. A quick glance at the less-than-impressive $3,227 per-screen average points to this being a flop.

IMAX played a big part in the success of “Spectre” in China, as it does with most Hollywood blockbusters. Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” has spent seven weeks within the box-office top 10 and still shows no signs of slowing down.

Matt Damon’s flyaway hit “The Martian” dipped to fourth place with $6.7 million in its seventh weekend and a massive $207.4 million total, while Chilean mining drama “The 33” fared OK in its first week out, digging up $5.8 million for No. 5.

When adjusted for inflation, the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom is Titanic, with earnings of more than £110 million.

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, an Indian film distributed by Fox worldwide Productions, came in eighth in the US with $2.4 million from just 286 locations. It landed in the #8 position with $2.4 million and a per-screen average of $8,392. Think of how much more it would have made if not for that lengthy runtime.

Failing to crack the top 10, despite opening on 1,565 screens, was period football drama “My All American”.

Of the new wide releases, CBS Films’ holiday-flavored “Love the Coopers” fared best.