{"id":65851,"date":"2014-10-27T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=65851"},"modified":"2014-10-27T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:29:40","slug":"boxoffice-oct-27-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-oct-27-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: Spirits Point to Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for Halloween, teenagers went out in droves to see the only teen-friendly scary movie in cinemas.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The top movie at the box office was the Hasbro-produced &#8216;<strong>Ouija<\/strong>&#8216;. Although the low-budget PG-13 horror flick saw a decent $20 million debut fueled by youngsters and crushed by critics, &#8216;Ouija&#8217; is expected to die off and disappear into the shadows rather quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it only came in #2 at the box office this week, with older-skewing audience and some critics&#8217; praise, Keanu Reeves&#8217; comeback vehicle &#8216;<strong>John Wick<\/strong>&#8216; is predicted to hold over better than the winner. The revenge thriller drew $14.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Fury<\/strong>&#8216; dropped to the #3 spot in its second week and wasn&#8217;t able to hang on as well as expected. After a 45% drop in attendance, the World War II action drama pulled in $13 million, bringing its ten-day total up to $46 million.<\/p>\n<p>In its fourth week, &#8216;<strong>Gone Girl<\/strong>&#8216; moved down to the #4 spot, but still only fell 37% in attendance. The movie keeps moving forward as it pulled in another $11.1 million. To date it has earned $124 million and is just a few days away from dethroning &#8216;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&#8217; as David Fincher&#8217;s highest grossing film.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend&#8217;s animated release &#8216;<strong>The Book of Life<\/strong>&#8216; rounded out the Top 5 by falling from third place. The Mexican flavored musical earned $9.8 million. Its 42% drop is steeper than most family flicks and its ten-day total of $29.9 million isn&#8217;t so great for a movie that cost $50 million to make.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion of Bill Murray&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>St. Vincent<\/strong>&#8216; proved strong as hipsters flooded theaters and boosted the indie flick to the #6 spot. From 2,282 locations, the small comedy grossed $8 million, bringing its domestic total up to $9.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Keira Knightley comedy &#8216;<strong>Laggies<\/strong>&#8216; had a nice little debut. From five screens, the A24-distributed film pulled in $78,500 for a per-screen average of $15,700.<\/p>\n<p>The debut numbers for &#8216;White Bird in a Blizzard&#8217; have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<h2>Top 10:<\/h2>\n<p>1. &#8216;Ouija&#8217; (Universal) &#8211; $20,006,000<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8216;John Wick&#8217; (Lionsgate\/Summit) &#8211; $14,150,000<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8216;Fury&#8217; (Sony) &#8211; $13,000,000<\/p>\n<p>4. &#8216;Gone Girl&#8217; (Fox) &#8211; $11,100,000<\/p>\n<p>5. &#8216;The Book of Life&#8217; (Fox) &#8211; $9,800,000<\/p>\n<p>6. &#8216;St. Vincent&#8217; (Weinstein) &#8211; $8,058,000<\/p>\n<p>7. &#8216;Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day&#8217; (Buena Vista) &#8211; $7,023,000<\/p>\n<p>8. &#8216;The Best of Me&#8217; (Relativity) &#8211; $4,736,000<\/p>\n<p>9. &#8216;The Judge&#8217; (Warner Bros.) &#8211; $4,345,000<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8216;Dracula Untold&#8217; (Universal) &#8211; $4,302,000<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for Halloween, teenagers went out in droves to see the only teen-friendly scary movie in cinemas.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[7675,178,7681,7680,7756,7676,7755,7613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65851"}],"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=65851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65989,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65851\/revisions\/65989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}