‘Spectre’ stays on top with $35.4M, ‘Peanuts’ with $24.2M

Computer-animated 3D cartoon The Peanuts Movie – the first big screen rendering in 35 years for the beloved comic book characters – sold an estimated US$24.2 million in tickets to stay in second place in its second week, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

In this image released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures/EON Productions, Daniel Craig appears in a scene from the James Bond film, “Spectre”. Daniel Craig’s fourth Bond film has most flexed its muscles overseas, where the majority of its $500 million-plus two-week global haul has come from.

The Peanuts Movie opened in a solid second place last weekend, earning $44.2 million.

After just two weekends at the box office, it’s already 5th on the all-time list of Bond films and last week it had the second largest opening of any Bond flick in history. Ridley Scott’s film became the seventh 2015 release to cross the $200 million mark and over the last three weeks it hasn’t seen a drop less than 26.1% making my 34% drop seem steep by comparison.

“This is your obligatory, wacky, dysfunctional, family Christmas comedy with a few niblets of drama for poignancy”. “Skyfall”, its immediate predecessor, slid 53% in its second weekend to $41 million on its way to a $304 million domestic total. “Love the Coopers” will be joined next week by “The Night Before” as seasonally themed movies. Goosebumps (US$4.7 million) 7.

The 33, about 33 Chilean miners trapped 700 meters underground for 69 days in 2010, debuted in fifth place with a take of U.S. $5.8 million. The film, which cost $25 million to make, tracked the best among adult Latino moviegoers in the West and South. The French-flavored movie, which stars real-life spouses Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt as a couple coming apart, is expected to earn $132,000 on its first weekend. The critically acclaimed drama about The Boston Globe’s investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic church is an Oscar hopeful in many major categories. The film has made nearly $5 million in Chile and $3 million in Mexico.

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.

Love the Coopers landed in third place with 2.8 million on Friday. The film, written and directed by Angelo Pizzo, received an A CinemaScore grade despite poor critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Especially considering that she has been very vocal of late about how white male directors are given more opportunities to direct films, even after past films they make flop. It kicks off the holiday movie season that will be punctuated with big franchises like “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2” later this month and Disney’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in December.