‘Spectre’ Still No1, Brad Pitt’s ‘By The Sea’ Not So Much

16 Nov, 2015

James Bond film Spectre remained No 1 at the US box office, with $35.4m in its second weekend, as drama By the Sea sank beneath the waves on limited release despite reuniting Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on the big screen for the first time in a decade.

Spectre’s haul fell by just under 50% from its opening bow of $70m last week, and Oscar-winner Sam Mendes’ second and most likely final stint in the 007 hot seat has also passed the $500m mark worldwide after an impressive $48m debut in China this weekend. That figure is the highest of all time for a non-3D Hollywood venture.

After 10 days in cinemas, Bond’s 24th official adventure is behind 2012’s Skyfall in North America, at $130.7m compared to $161m. But the film could yet reach the heights of its predecessor, the highest-grossing movie in the long-running spy saga, if it continues to perform well outside the US. By way of contrast, the last Bond outing only earned $59m throughout its entire run in China, whose box office has grown exponentially in the past three years. Spectre also became the highest-grossing movie of 2015 in the UK last week.

The second-placed film at the US box office this weekend was once again The Peanuts Movie, which held firm with an impressive $24.2m in its second week on release. Third spot went to a new movie, comedy Love the Coopers, which stars Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Diane Keaton, Anthony Mackie, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Marisa Tomei, Olivia Wilde and the voice of Steve Martin in the tale of a family Christmas Eve get-together. The film, titled Christmas with the Coopers in the UK, pulled in a respectable $8.4m on debut.

Another new film, Chilean mining disaster movie The 33, landed in fifth place with an opening bow of $5.8m. Patricia Riggen’s film stars Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche and James Brolin in the true story of the 33 miners trapped inside the San José Mine in Chile for more than two months in 2010. The top five was rounded out by enduring Ridley Scott sci-fi hit The Martian, with $6.7m in fourth for a seventh-week total of $207.4m.

The only other new film to make the top 10 this weekend was the Bollywood smash Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, which landed at No 8. The film’s $2.4m bow from just 286 screens is one of the most impressive openings of all time in North America for an Indian movie, and a reminder that the US and Canada boast sizeable audiences for Bollywood films.

There was less positive news for Jolie’s By the Sea, the Hollywood A-lister’s third feature as director. The relationship drama, in which the Oscar-winner stars with her husband Pitt as a married couple struggling to save their romance with a visit to a French resort in the 1970s, scored just $95,440 from 10 cinemas on limited release. The film’s location average of $9,544 is considered weak and the drama looks likely to struggle when it opens in an additional 90 cinemas next weekend – after picking up withering reviews.

North American box office 13-15 November

1. Spectre: $35.4m. Total: $130.7m
2. The Peanuts Movie: $24.2m. Total: $82.5m
3. Love the Coopers: $8.4m – NEW
4. The Martian: $6.7m. Total: $207.4m
5. The 33: $5.8m – NEW
6. Goosebumps: $4.7m. Total: $73.5m
7. Bridge of Spies: $4.3m. Total: $61.7m
8. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo: $2.8m – NEW
9. Hotel Transylvania 2: $2.4m. Total: $165.2m
10. The Last Witch Hunter: $1.5m. Total: $26m

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