“Spectre” & “Peanuts” Continues Reign On Box Office

“Spectre” added $35.4 million to bring its domestic total to $130.7 million.

“Spectre” has been topping the box office charts since its opening weekend and this weekend has been no exception. All told, it was the weekend’s second-highest grossing film with $31 million, behind only “Spectre” with $152 million. And it nabbed the biggest Chinese Friday box office of all time for a 2D title with $15-M.

This week, the Open Road Films movie extended to 60 screens, pulling in nearly $1.4 million. In the meantime, while The Peanuts Movie is staying in a strong second place with an estimated $24.2 million, it has a long way to go to be profitable on its whopping $99 million budget, with a worldwide total of $90.6 million. But it has grossed $17.7 million so far and our guess is the studio will wait until its nominated up the wazoo from the Globes and the Academy and slowly start upping the theater count again; a second shot at a slowly-building platform release as it were. The movie sunk in its limited debut. The R-rated relationship drama bowed in ten theaters and grossed an estimated $95,000 for a weak $9,500 average. By the Sea is an art house movie like those of the 1970’s. This moment, when the villain justifies his actions, was a big letdown because it is a cliché one would hope not to find in a Bond film. Its cumulative audience has hit United States dollars 1.8 million.

The comedy about four generations of a family coming together on Christmas Eve stars Diane Keaton, John Goodman and Olivia Wilde among others.

CBS Films’ ‘The 33’ rounded out the Top 5.

The film based on the 2010 Chilean mining disaster took $5.8m (£4m) from 2,452 cinemas. The Fox backed adaptation of Charles Schulz’s iconic comic strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown has earned $82.5 million stateside. Starring Antonio Banderas, the PG-13 film was not liked by film critics.

Bridge of Spies and Goosebumps continue to make their way down the list after five weeks in release, while the Indian film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo was a surprise entry at No. 8.

“We just have to be better than everybody else…” And it made history in India, scoring the biggest Bollywood opening of all time with 4-day box office of $27-M. A domestic final in the area of $220M may result for Spectre which has been generating decent but not stellar buzz from ticket buyers.