The Hollywood studios must be sighing in relief today \u2013 especially Sony, which scored both the top two box office spots over the weekend. After several consecutive poor weeks (one of which was a record-setting low with the worst-ever opening for a movie), the box office has finally bounced back.
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Seven weeks since the last significant kids’ movie opened, the family-friendly ‘Hotel Transylvania<\/strong>‘ killed it this weekend, earning the best opening since July’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and the best ever opening for a film in September. If you add the $43 million domestic gross with totals from the 13-market overseas release, ‘Transylvania’ closed the weekend with a total of $51.1 million.<\/p>\n The R-rated sci-fi action flick ‘Looper<\/strong>‘ scored an impressive $21.2 million. Since it’s a Chinese co-production, China gave the film a huge push in that market. The international totals for ‘Looper’ aren’t in yet, but it looks to close out the weekend in China around $23 to $25 million.<\/p>\n On just 335 screens, ‘Pitch Perfect<\/strong>‘ finished in the #6 spot with $5.2 million. The $17 million comedy earned the highest per-screen average: $15,552. This weekend proved to be a great head-start for the film’s 2,000-plus screen expansion, which is set for next weekend.<\/p>\n The release that didn’t score so big was ‘Won’t Back Down<\/strong>,’ the educational drama starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis. Its $2.7 million opening only warranted tenth place with a pathetic $1,074 per-screen average.<\/p>\n Sadly, weekend estimates have not yet been announced for a single of the indie titles mentioned in my Weekend Movies post.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Hotel Transylvania’ (Sony) – $43,000,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Looper’ (TriStar) – $21,200,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘End of Watch’ (Original Film) – $8,000,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Trouble with the Curve’ (Warner Bros.) – $7,530,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘House at the End of the Streeet’ (Relativity) – $7,154,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Pitch Perfect’ (Universal) – $5,200,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Finding Nemo 3D’ (Buena Vista) – $4,066,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Resident Evil: Retribution’ (Screen Gems) – $3,000,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘The Master’ (Weinstein) – $2,745,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Won’t Back Down’ (Fox) – $2,700,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Hollywood studios must be sighing in relief today \u2013 especially Sony, which scored both the top two box office spots over the weekend. After several consecutive poor weeks (one of which was a record-setting low with the worst-ever opening for a movie), the box office has finally bounced back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[178,5440,5045,5644,5661],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41349"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41601,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41349\/revisions\/41601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n