Both of this weekend’s new wide releases were produced for the same budget ($165 million) and were expected to close at around the same mark, but audiences made their decisions and one surprisingly edged a bit ahead of the other.
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The top movie in America is Disney’s Marvel-inspired animated superhero flick ‘Big Hero 6<\/strong>‘. With great trailers highlighting the loveable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man-like character Baymax, the film slipped ahead of Christopher Nolan’s three-hour space opus by $6.2 million. ‘Big Hero’ pulled in $56.2 million from 3,761 3D and 2D screens and is doing solid business in its staggered release overseas. With many markets to go, it has already earned $23 million internationally.<\/p>\n Nolan’s ‘Interstellar<\/strong>‘ debuted to $50 million from the three-day weekend, which is on the low end of estimates, but did exceptionally well in the director’s preferred IMAX format. Of the $50 million the film earned, $13.4 million came from IMAX showings (which aren’t in 3D). Although this marks the director’s lowest opening since ‘The Prestige’, it’s safe to assume that the 169-minute runtime and lessened amount of showtimes had something to do with that. An additional $2.1 million were grossed from limited celluloid screenings that began at 8PM on Tuesday and continued through the film’s wide debut late Thursday night. Overseas, ‘Interstellar’ opened simultaneously in almost all markets and earned a solid $80 million.<\/p>\n In its sixth week, ‘Gone Girl<\/strong>‘ climbed back up into the #3 spot by only slipping 28% from last weekend. The additional $6.1 million brought its domestic run up to $145.4 million. Including the overseas totals, the film has earned a very impressive $303.2 million.<\/p>\n The PG-13 horror flick ‘Ouija<\/strong>‘ moved down to fourth place. Its drop-off was once again light, as it only slipped 44% with another $6 million. The $5 million movie has now brought in $43.4 million.<\/p>\n Rounding out the Top 5 was Bill Murray’s indie hit ‘St. Vincent<\/strong>‘. A $5.7 million weekend brought its run up to $27.3 million.<\/p>\n Focus Features’ Oscar-buzzed romantic drama ‘The Theory of Everything<\/strong>‘ had a very nice debut with $207,000, for a per-screen average of $41,400. This signals that it ought to do very well as the release expands over the next several weeks.<\/p>\n Weekend estimates have yet to be reported for Lionsgate’s horror flick ‘Jessabelle’.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Big Hero 6’ (Buena Vista) – $56,200,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Interstellar’ (Paramount) – $50,000,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Gone Girl’ (Fox) – $6,100,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Ouija’ (Universal) – $6,017,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘St. Vincent’ (Weinstein) – $5,707,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Nightcrawler’ (Open Road) – $5,512,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Fury’ (Sony) – $5,500,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘John Wick’ (Lionsgate\/Summit) – $4,075,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Buena Vista) – $3,495,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘The Book of Life’ (Fox) – $2,800,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Both of this weekend’s new wide releases were produced for the same budget ($165 million) and were expected to close at around the same mark, but audiences made their decisions and one surprisingly edged a bit ahead of the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":66260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[7679,178,7680,7683,7617,7755,7613,7620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66145"}],"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=66145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66288,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66145\/revisions\/66288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h2>\n