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

The top of this week’s box office mirrors last week as the new James Bond film, Spectre, and the computer animated Peanuts Movie retained their respective numbers one and two spots in theaters this week, reports the L.A. Times’ Tre’vell Anderson.

According to Variety, Spectre must rake in about US$650 million globally to break even. After breaking records in the United Kingdom, the film took in an estimated $48 million in China this weekend. This brings the film’s worldwide total to $543.8 million.

Spectre, the latest film in the James Bond series, launched to $70.4 million last weekend and took in an estimated $35.4 million in weekend two. Anything under -50% for a blockbuster is huge (then again, the competition this weekend was negligible), but overseas is where Bond continues to kick even more impressive ass. Both of those launched on the first weekend of November as well, but were not based on such a broadly known property like Charlie Brown.

Staying in second was Blue Sky Studios’ The Peanuts Movie. An all-star cast (including Diane Keaton and John Goodman) didn’t hurt. Coopers hopes to play through the Thanksgiving holiday attracting a mature audience that comes out over time, though shaky word-of-mouth will make that challenging.

The Martian fell one spot to fourth place as it was wedged between newcomers Love the Coopers ($8.4m) and The 33 ($5.8m). It is only the second October film in history to reach $200M+ following Gravity. Of course, even a semi-dedicated Bond fan could have guessed what that “twist” is by now, so it’s likely you can enjoy the video just fine even if you haven’t seen the film. Its cume has hit $1.8 million. The sci-fi stands at $207.4 million and at this rate it should rocket past $230 million domestically, making it Matt Damon’s highest grossing movie yet (currently The Bourne Ultimatum at $227.5 million). Released on 1,500 screens, Clarius Entertainment’s “My All American” was a non-starter, opening outside of the top 10 to only $1.3 million. “The Peanuts Movie” has grossed $82.5 million thus far. Regardless of its poor takings, its restricted discharge is thought unrealistic to hurt its film organization, Universal, a lot since it was made for a generally humble spending plan of $10m (£6.6m).

Spotlight earned a strong $1.4-M for an enviable location average of $23,307 and early domestic box office of $1.8-M. Her moody ’70s set drama about a dsyfunctional married couple, in which she stars opposite real-life husband Brad Pitt, clocked less than $96,000 from 10 screens. Playing in just 10 theaters, it made only $95,440.