Blame it on the World Series, Halloween, the Presidential Election, or maybe just some nice weather where everyone is going outside instead, but this is shaping up to be a paltry weekend at the box office. An appetite forDan Brown’sDa Vinci Codenovels being adapted into movies has flamed out withInferno, which collected under $1 million on Thursday night, and hobbled to $5.6 million on Friday. And yet, those numbers are enough for it to grab the number one spot.
Inferno, starringTom HanksandFelicity Jones, was made with half of the budget ofAngels & Demons, and doesn’t seem like it will be recouping more than a portion of that movie’s box office gains as well. But as is becoming an increasingly familiar story, thoughInfernois not performing well domestically, it’s burning up overseas where it has already reached over $100 million. American audiences may not be the target of some of these mega franchises anymore (and perhaps that’s a good thing?)
Back in 2009,Angels & Demonsmade $46 million in its opening weekend, whileThe Da Vinci Codemade $77 million (both opened in May).Infernois on track to make around $15 million this weekend.
Coming in second place is last week’s winner,Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, which is proving to be a fairly formidable foe forInferno, and it could be neck-in-neck to finish out the weekend, as it gained a pretty solid $4.5 million on Friday (and is, of course, relevant to this particular seasonal weekend).
WhileA Madea Halloweenis seeing around a 47% drop from its opening weekend,Jack Reacher: NeverStop Never StoppingGo Backis seeing around a $60% drop, and earned a mere $2.9 million on Friday, putting it in third place.
Check out the full Friday Top 10 below (viaBox Office Mojo):
Friday Box Office
$5,600,000
Boo! A Madea Halloween
$4,590,000
$39,934,343
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
$2,900,000
$33,029,177
The Accountant
$2,525,000
$55,307,172
Ouija: Origin of Evil
$2,200,000
$19,768,625
The Girl on the Train
$1,370,000
$63,018,480
Keeping Up with the Joneses
$1,050,000
$8,454,313
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
$1,040,000
$76,944,180
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
$66,119,612
