'Miss Peregrine' lands in first place
This weekend saw the opening of two big budgeted releases in Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Peter Berg's Deepwater Horizon, the action movie based on the events of the BP oil spill. Miss Peregrine won the battle for first place, debuting with $28 million, but that's not exactly huge for a movie that cost $110 million, and Deepwater Horizon came in lower, with $20 million on a similar sized budget. Miss Peregrine opened a tad below Burton's Dark Shadows, and with mixed reviews and a "B+" Cinemascope, it probably won't stick around too long. Horizon fared better critically and with audience reaction, but the unimpressive opening will hinder it as well.
Last week's champ The Magnificent Seven fell harder than expected to third place, with just $15 million, although it's doing pretty well overseas and has already earned back its $90 million budget. The animated Storks fell to fourth with $13 million, just a small drop-off from its $21 million opening, and Sully rounded out the top five, having now crossed $100 million total in its fourth week, another solid hit for Clint Eastwood well into his 80's as a director. You have to admit, that's a feat for anyone.
Mark Wahlberg in 'Deepwater Horizon'
Top 5:
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children- $28.5 million
- Deepwater Horizon- $20.6 million
- The Magnificent Seven- $15.7 million
- Storks- $13.8 million
- Sully- $8.4 million
In limited release, Queen of Katwe stumbled as it expanded, earning just $2.6 million from over 1200 theaters, and the critically panned Masterminds opened outside the top ten with a low $6 million for Zack Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig. Next weekend sees the opening of Girl on the Train, which is getting fairly weak reviews, and the brimming with outside controversy Birth of a Nation, which is now considered a lost cause in the Oscar race, where just nine months ago it was deemed a sure frontrunner out of Sundance. How quickly things change.
