James Bond wins his second weekend at the box office

It’s no secret that the “someone” is Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with Academy Award victor Christoph Waltz portraying the penultimate Bond villain played in the past by actors such as Donald Pleasance (in You Only Live Twice), Telly Savalas (in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), and Charles Grey (in Diamonds Are Forever). Additionally, and it’s not a 100% accurate comparison because not all countries open at the same time, but after two weeks of release, “Skyfall” was at $289 million internationally. It displaced The Martian down to fourth, though Ridley Scott’s sci-fi drama (or comedy, if you count its Golden Globe categorization), still made $6.7 million, and crossed the $200 million mark in the United States alone. The specialty field story this weekend belonged to Open Road’s “Spotlight”. The Daniel Craig film has been impressive overseas, having success in China, where it recently debuted.

SPECTRE opened to $48.2 million in China, which nabs it the record for the biggest opening weekend of all-time for an imported 2D film.

“The Peanuts Movie”, from 20th Century Fox, remained in second place with $24.2 million. So far this year films have grossed $9.2 billion at the domestic box office, which is up 3.5% compared with the same time a year ago. “Even though they’re the two biggest stars in the world, it was never going to be a runaway blockbuster”. The European craftsmanship house film stars the genuine couple as a spouse and wife attempting to adapt in the fallout of an injury. The R-rated relationship drama bowed in ten theaters and grossed an estimated $95,000 for a weak $9,500 average.

CBS Films’ Love the Coopers was the most successful of the new arrivals, but that really isn’t saying a lot. Debuting on 256 screens, it finished with $2.4 million. The audience was 70% female and 82% over 25.

Just missing the top 10 was fellow new release “My All American”, about University of Texas football star Freddie Steinmark and his battle with cancer. My All American came in around number twelve with just $1.4 million. i Spectre slipped 50% from last weekend, but still held on to number one.

Lucky for the Coopers this flick only cost $17 million to make and should be relevant at least until December 25th. The Matt Damon sci-fier has topped “Cinderella” as the year’s seventh-largest domestic grosser with $207. Its cume has hit $1.8 million. That brings the horror comedy to $73.5 million domestically and $103.2 million worldwide. Fox Searchlight’s Oscar hopeful Brooklyn also expanded and made $485k at 23 locations. Starring Saoirse Ronan as an Irish immigrant in the 1950s, the period drama has total $832,996 in 10 days.