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39% Jigsaw

07% Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

15% Geostorm

69% Happy Death Day

88% Blade Runner 2049

77% Thank You for Your Service (2017)
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26% Suburbicon

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‘Thor: Ragnarok' Thunders to $107.6 Million at International Box Office

Disney-Marvel's ”Thor: Ragnarok" has topped the international box office with $107.6 million in 52% of overseas markets, a week ahead of its U.S. release.

The U.K. is the top market with $15.8 million, 27% ahead of ”Doctor Strange." It's the biggest October opening ever for a movie in the U.K. except for James Bond titles.

South Korea took in $15.3 million, followed by Australia at $8.4 million, Brazil at $8.3 million, France at $7.4 million, Indonesia at $5.5 million and Taiwan at $5.4 million.

Disney said the opening of the third Thor movie is 4% ahead of ”Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," which wound up with $481 million at current exchange rates and 22% ahead of ”Doctor Strange." In many markets, ”Thor: Ragnarok" posted the best October opening weekend ever.

Markets which will open next weekend include Germany, Russia, China, Japan and Mexico, along with the U.S. — where it should top the early November box office with as much as $125 million in its opening weekend, early projections have shown.

‘Jigsaw' Dominates Pre-Halloween Weekend With $16.3 Million

In one of the slowest weekends this year, horror titles dominated the pre-Halloween box with Lionsgate's opening of ”Jigsaw" leading the way at a respectable $16.3 million at 2,941 North American locations.

The second weekend of ”Boo 2! A Madea Halloween," also from Lionsgate, turned in a solid performance with $10 million at 2,388 sites, but no other title cleared the $6 million mark. Matt Damon's ”Suburbicon" struggled with $2.8 million at 2,046 sites and Miles Teller's ”Thank You For Your Service" finished with $3.7 million at 2,054 theaters; both came in below what were modest forecasts in their launch weekends.

”Jigsaw" is the eighth title in the ”Saw" franchise, which centers on the deranged killer played by Tobin Bell. Audiences gave the movie a B Cinemascore, and the film made about $4 million less than projected in its launch weekend. The movie, which has a budget around $10 million, is set a decade after the death of Jigsaw as police investigate a series of gruesome murders that fit the Jigsaw style.

”Boo 2," starring Tyler Perry as Madea, declined 53% from its opening weekend and will wind up with $35.5 million in its first 10 days. Warner Bros.' second weekend of weather disaster tale ”Geostorm" finished a distant third with a 59% decline to $5.6 million at 3,246 venues, followed by Universal's third weekend of ”Happy Death Day" with about $4.7 million. Warner's fourth weekend of ”Blade Runner" snagged fifth place and ”Thank You for Your Service," produced by DreamWorks Pictures and released by Universal, came in sixth in its opening weekend.

”Thank You for Your Service" follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life. Teller stars along with Haley Bennett, Joe Cole, Amy Schumer, Beulah Koale, Scott Haze, and Keisha Castle-Hughes.

”Suburbicon," which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, centers on the dark side of a prototypical suburban community in 1959. Audiences were unimpressed and gave the comedy-drama a D- Cinemascore. Paramount acquired U.S. distribution rights last year for $10 million with Black Bear Pictures financing.

The overall domestic weekend is heading for a total of about $75 million, according to comScore. October has been a rough month so far with $539.1 million, down 13.4% as of Sunday, and the year-to-date total is $8.73 billion — down 5% from the year-ago total.

Business should pick up next weekend with the opening of ”Thor: Ragnarok" expected to open with $125 million.

”It's been another really slow weekend for a month of October that has seen a ton of product with both big and small released into theaters with a seemingly indifferent (and distracted) audience that is clearly waiting for the Holiday blockbuster and Oscar season to motivate them toward the multiples," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore. ”The World Series and ‘Stranger Things' certainly were major small screen distractions over one of the lowest grossing weekends of the year thus far."

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[x Power Pad Death Stomp x]

I wonder how much Stranger Things 2 has an effect on the box office. Everyone seems to be binging it all weekend.

 

[firelogic]

Man, Blade Runner 2049 needs a lot more love. It's such a special movie but no one's watching! Just for the visuals alone you should watch it in the theatre.

 

[MisterR]

Is Blade Runner doing any good in the rest of the world? Really hope it can turn some profit.

 

[Kimawolf]

I wonder how much Stranger Things 2 has an effect on the box office. Everyone seems to be binging it all weekend.

I doubt it had a measurable effect. Look at the releases for this week. Nothing really major at all.

 

[Carl]

Looking forward to going to see Jigsaw I'm Tuesday! Saw Happy Death Day last week and really enjoyed it so I'm glad to see that doing well too

 

[firelogic]

Is Blade Runner doing any good in the rest of the world? Really hope it can turn some profit.

They were hoping for a miracle in China but it only did about $9 million opening weekend.

 

[xaosslug]

They were hoping for a miracle in China but it only did about $9 million opening weekend.

yeah, it flopped bigly in China

 

[Jigolo]

curious to what suburbicons budget was

 

[t-storm]

Subombicon!

yeah, it flopped bigly in China

Oh.

Blade Runner

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Suburbicon reviews have been pretty scathing. Saw a couple of them mention another marketing bait & switch, so I'm not shocked at the godawful Cinemascore.

Another week, another Miles Teller movie nobody saw.

 

[natjjohn]

Glad you’re still making these.

Box office yuck across the board. Next week will surely be huge

 

[xaosslug]

ww chart added

 

[wachie]

Glad you’re still making these.

What a wasteland. I remember the good 'ole BO threads.

 

[Fancyarcher]

Suburbicon is A bomb. Clooney should probably try to take a break from being a filmmaker if you ask me.

 

[Raziel]

These threads might be readable now.

 

[DiddyBop]

Might have to check out Happy Death Day. Did IT get a Halloween weekend bump?

 

[Fancyarcher]

Might have to check out Happy Death Day. Did IT get a Halloween weekend bump?

No, but it did have a good weekend drop.

 

[bryehn]

Suburbicon reviews have been pretty scathing. Saw a couple of them mention another marketing bait & switch, so I'm not shocked at the godawful Cinemascore.

Another week, another Miles Teller movie nobody saw.

It was pretty awful.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Is it possible that Boo 2 will get the lowest metacritic score in history?


I was watching IT, and the audience almost died from embarrasment. I've never felt that sort of vibe before.

 

[Kimawolf]

Is it possible that Boo 2 will get the lowest metacritic score in history?


I was watching IT, and the audience almost died from embarrasment. I've never felt that sort of vibe before.

Boo 2 is what it is and there is a group of folks who like it. They are reliable and will come out. I will say it cant be worse than some of the shit out there.