enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony release starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
It was a relatively quiet weekend for North American movie theaters . Charts were dominated by big studio holdovers, like 鈥淰enom 3,鈥� and 鈥淪mile 2,鈥� while audiences roundly rejected the Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Robert Zemeckis reunion Thirty years after 鈥淔orrest Gump,鈥� 鈥淗ere鈥� opened to only $5 million from 2,647 locations.
鈥淰enom 3鈥� only fell 49% in its second weekend, which is a notably small drop for a superhero film, though . In two weeks, the movie has made over $90 million domestically; The first two opened to over $80 million. Globally, the picture is brighter given that it has already crossed the $300 million threshold.
Meanwhile, Universal and Illumination鈥檚 continues to attract moviegoers even six weeks in (and when it鈥檚 available by video on demand), placing second with $7.6 million. The animated charmer has made over $121 million in North America and $269 million worldwide. 鈥淪mile 2鈥� landed in third place with $6.8 million, helping to push its worldwide total to $109.7 million.
The time-hopping 鈥淗ere,鈥� a graphic novel that was adapted by 鈥淔orrest Gump鈥� screenwriter Eric Roth, was financed by Miramax and distributed by Sony鈥檚 TriStar. With a fixed position camera, it takes audiences through the years in one living room. Critics were not on board: In aggregate it has a lousy 36% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Rounding out the top five was the Focus Features papal thriller with $5.3 million. Playing in 1,796 theaters, 鈥淐辞苍肠濒补惫别鈥� dropped only 20% from its debut last weekend and has made $15.2 million so far. Two Indian films also cracked the top 10 in their debuts, 鈥淏hool Bhulaiyaa 3鈥� and 鈥淪ingham Again.鈥�
film a comedic drama about cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland, launched in four theaters this weekend in New York and Los Angeles. It made an estimated $240,000, or $60,000 per screen, which is among the top three highest per theater averages of the year. Searchlight Pictures will be expanding the well-reviewed film nationwide in the coming weeks, going wide on Nov. 15 to over 800 theaters.
Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
