{"id":88167,"date":"2017-11-06T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=88167"},"modified":"2017-11-05T17:53:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T01:53:51","slug":"box-office-nov-6-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/box-office-nov-6-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: Norse Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between summer’s ‘Guardians’ sequel and this weekend’s new ‘Thor’ movie, the MCU harvest has been great for Disney this year. The ‘Bad Moms’ sequel also had a decent opening, but isn’t tracking like its highly profitable predecessor. Aside from those, however, the weekend’s box office was just as poor as the past several weeks.
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Marvel Studios hasn’t had the biggest success with the ‘Thor’ franchise, but that turned around this weekend with the thunderous opening of ‘Thor: Ragnarok<\/strong>‘. Thanks to strong comedy, a fresh director who was given free rein and very positive reviews, the third entry in the character’s (supposedly) standalone series captured lightning in a bottle by grossing $121 million and an easy #1 debut. This three-day domestic total represents nearly double the opening of the first ‘Thor<\/a>‘ and $35 million more than ‘The Dark World<\/a>‘. The wild success of last week’s international opening also continued this weekend. After ten days, the MCU’s 17th title has earned $306 million overseas. Over the last ten days, the $180 million ‘Ragnarok’ has whipped up $427 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

While the opening of ‘Ragnarok’ shows the opposite of sequel fatigue, the weekend’s other new sequel didn’t hold a candle to its original. Last year, ‘Bad Moms<\/a>‘ surprised with a strong opening and very long legs, ultimately leading to the $20 million R-rated comedy making $113.2 million domestically. The fast-tracked sequel ‘A Bad Mom’s Christmas<\/strong>‘ cost $28 million to produce and had a #2 debu with $17 million, which is down nearly $6 million from the first. While the upcoming holiday season could definitely lead to it having legs as long as its predecessor, terrible reviews could easily prevent that from happening. Next weekend’s holdover ought to give us a clue as to which route it will take. Steering clear of the almighty ‘Thor’, ‘A Bad Mom’s Christmas’ opened on Wednesday. The two-day head start resulted in $4.5 million, giving it a $21.5 million five-day total. Internationally, the joyless comedy pulled $6.6 million, putting its worldwide total at a budget-covering $28.2 million.<\/p>\n

Last week’s ‘Saw’-quel dropped 60% and, obviously, fell from the top spot on the charts. Finishing in third place, ‘Jigsaw<\/strong>‘ made $6.7 million, bringing its ten-day total to $28.8 million, which is already higher than what ‘Saw VI’ earned over its entire domestic run. The foreign box office has dished up $30.7 million, giving this cheap ($10 million production budget) eighth entry to the horror franchise a $59.5 million worldwide total.<\/p>\n

‘Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween<\/strong>‘ is still showing the same signs of sequel fatigue that the ‘Bad Moms’ are experiencing. Its third week resulted in $4.6 million, a #4 finish and a $42.9 million 17-day total. At this point, the original ‘Boo!’ had $64.9 million, which is what prompted the quick year-later sequel. With ‘Boo 2!’ coming with a $25 million price tag, it will likely rely on home video to recoup its marketing costs.<\/p>\n

Three-week-old ‘Geostorm<\/strong>‘ rounded out the Top 5 with $3 million. To date, the $120 million CG-fest has only grossed $28.7 million domestically. Fortunately for Warner Bros., international moviegoers are still feeding the monster. The movie has made $153.6 million overseas, bringing its worldwide total to $182.3 million.<\/p>\n

One of this weekend’s indies soared in limited release. Greta Gerwig’s ‘Lady Bird<\/strong>‘ collected $375,612 from four locations, giving it the year’s best per-screen average with $93,903. With stats like that, A24 will expand it nationwide for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

The week’s other acclaimed indie release didn’t fare so well, but will still expand in the coming weeks. Richard Linklater’s ‘Last Flag Flying<\/strong>‘ also opened at four locations, but only took $42,000 and a per-screen average of $10,500.<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h2>\n

1. ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ (Buena Vista) – $121,005,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘A Bad Mom’s Christmas’ (STX) – $17,030,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘Jigsaw’ (Lionsgate) – $6,700,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween’ (Lionsgate) – $4,650,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘Geostorm’ (Warner Bros.) – $3,035,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘Happy Death Day’ (Universal) – $2,815,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘Thank You for Your Service’ (Universal) – $2,260,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (Warner Bros.) – $2,235,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘Only the Brave’ (Sony) – $1,910,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘Let There Be Light’ (Atlas) – $1,631,384<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between summer’s ‘Guardians’ sequel and this weekend’s new ‘Thor’ movie, the MCU harvest has been great for Disney this year. The ‘Bad Moms’ sequel also had a decent opening, but isn’t tracking like its highly profitable predecessor. Aside from those, however, the weekend’s box office was just as poor as the past several weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":88168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[9009,178,9889,9914,9913,2803,1132,567,1174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88167"}],"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=88167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88237,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88167\/revisions\/88237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}