For the umpteenth time this year, a tiny horror movie has destroyed another title that should have done much better. With the genre still going strong, don’t expect the scary streak to end anytime soon.<\/p>\n
Capitalizing on the Friday the 13th release date, microbudget horror flick ‘Insidious: Chapter 2<\/strong>‘ not only crushed the competition, it also set a box office record as the second highest debuting September title. This opening weekend was just $1.5 million behind last year’s ‘Hotel Transylvania’. Mind you, ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ didn’t need the help of 3D ticket prices to do so. The 2011 original was made with a very modest $1.5 million budget and earned $54 million domestically. ‘Chapter 2’ was made with a $5 million budget and has opened to $41 million. That’s just $13 million under the lifetime domestic gross of its predecessor. At this point, I think it’s safe to assume that we’ll see a ‘Chapter 3’ within the next year or two.<\/p>\n No matter how many once-big names appeared in Luc Besson’s ‘The Family<\/strong>‘, the film couldn’t come close to winning the weekend. The $30 million mobster comedy opened to a mild $14.5 million. While ‘Insidious’ targeted young viewers, ‘The Family (with a principal cast including three 55-and-over actors) aimed for older audiences \u2013 which seemed to help. The $14.5 million opening marks one of the best for Robert De Niro in recent years.<\/p>\n Last week’s winner ‘Riddick<\/strong>‘ suffered a second-weekend blow by dropping 63% in attendance, adding just $7 million to its haul for third place. After ten days in theaters, the $38 million film has earned $31.2 million.<\/p>\n Fourth place went to five-week-old ‘The Butler’<\/strong>. Lee Daniels’ $30 million drama stayed strong, dropping only 33% and earning another $5.5 million. That’s just enough to push it beyond the $100 million mark. Close on those heels was six-week-old ‘We’re the Millers<\/strong>‘. The $37 million comedy has now earned more than $131 million.<\/p>\n The IFC Sundance acquisition ‘Blue Caprice<\/strong>‘ did very well in its solitary screen opening, earning $15,200. IFC is expected to expand the theatrical release in coming weeks, but the film also debuts on VOD services this Tuesday.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ (Film District) – $41,050,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘The Family’ (Relativity) – $14,500,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Riddick’ (Universal) – $7,013,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ (Weinstein) – $5,582,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘We’re the Millers’ (Warner Bros.) – $5,415,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Instructions Not Included’ (Lionsgate) – $4,250,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Planes’ (Buena Vista) – $3,066,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘One Direction: This Is Us’ (TriStar) – $2,400,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Elysium’ (TriStar) – $2,050,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’ (Fox) – $1,825,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the umpteenth time this year, a tiny horror movie has destroyed another title that should have done much better. With the genre still going strong, don’t expect the scary streak to end anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":55687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[6126,178,2516,2504,6694,6762,6656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55684"}],"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=55684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56324,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55684\/revisions\/56324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n