The Martian Box Office, Matt Damon and The Martian attempt into a accomplished altered galaxy at the box office, rocketing to a $55 actor aperture weekend, according to flat estimates.
The Ridley Scott-directed blur about an astronaut abandoned on Mars came abutting to analogous the almanac aperture for October: Gravity, which starred Sandra Bullock as an astronaut in peril, debuted with $55.8 actor in 2013.
The brainy, science-filled Martian script, which Scott says was too abutting to absoluteness to alarm science fiction, was a hit with critics and admirers akin — scoring a 94% analytical approval appraisement on accumulated website RottenTomatoes.com and accepting an A from audiences at CinemaScore.Distributor 20th Century Fox aswell accustomed a above business benefit with ground-breaking science account endure anniversary that NASA had apparent affirmation of contempo abounding baptize on Mars.
"That's a flat executive's dream to accept that affectionate of absolute account associated with your movie, the absolute coincidence," says Paul Dergarabedian, chief box-office analyst for Rentrak. "The algebraic and science army has it traveling on appropriate now at the movies — science is absolutely cool. The Martian is not a sequel, but it still had this massive opening."Monster-filled Hotel Transylvania 2 connected to arise on the ancestors ball foreground with a second-place accomplishment of $33 million, one anniversary afterwards demography the box-office crown. The Sony film, starring Adam Sandler's activated Dracula, has an absorbing absolute of $90.5 actor in beneath than two weeks of release.
Sicario, Denis Villeneuve's attending at the barbarous of apple of biologic trafficking with Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, connected to aggrandize to theaters beyond the nation, demography third with $12.1 actor ($15.1 actor total).
"Lionsgate has a solid hit on its easily with Sicario, and this will abide to authority up able-bodied over the next brace of weeks," says Phil Contrino, advance analyst for BoxOffice.com. "And Sicario will absolutely be in the awards chat this fall."Nancy Meyers' The Intern, the May-December associate blur starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro, took fourth in its additional weekend, earning $11.6 actor ($36.5 actor total). Young-adult adjustment Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials angled out the top 5 with $7.7 million, with a absolute of $63.2 actor afterwards 17 canicule in theaters.
The alpha of awards division was abounding with superior offerings, with three new civic releases heralded as must-sees by critics on Rotten Tomatoes for the aboriginal time in 2015: The Martian (94% analytical approval), Sicario (93%) and The Airing (86%).
The Walk, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt depicting Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire airing amid the Apple Trade Center towers, fabricated its IMAX admission in 448 locations, demography in a solid $1.6 actor in bound release.
The Robert Zemeckis-directed cine absent some business to The Martian, Contrino says.
"At the end of the day, it's two comedy movies traveling head-to-head," says Contrino. "One has got to win and it's appealing bright which one is: The Martian."
The Ridley Scott-directed blur about an astronaut abandoned on Mars came abutting to analogous the almanac aperture for October: Gravity, which starred Sandra Bullock as an astronaut in peril, debuted with $55.8 actor in 2013.
The brainy, science-filled Martian script, which Scott says was too abutting to absoluteness to alarm science fiction, was a hit with critics and admirers akin — scoring a 94% analytical approval appraisement on accumulated website RottenTomatoes.com and accepting an A from audiences at CinemaScore.Distributor 20th Century Fox aswell accustomed a above business benefit with ground-breaking science account endure anniversary that NASA had apparent affirmation of contempo abounding baptize on Mars.
"That's a flat executive's dream to accept that affectionate of absolute account associated with your movie, the absolute coincidence," says Paul Dergarabedian, chief box-office analyst for Rentrak. "The algebraic and science army has it traveling on appropriate now at the movies — science is absolutely cool. The Martian is not a sequel, but it still had this massive opening."Monster-filled Hotel Transylvania 2 connected to arise on the ancestors ball foreground with a second-place accomplishment of $33 million, one anniversary afterwards demography the box-office crown. The Sony film, starring Adam Sandler's activated Dracula, has an absorbing absolute of $90.5 actor in beneath than two weeks of release.
Sicario, Denis Villeneuve's attending at the barbarous of apple of biologic trafficking with Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, connected to aggrandize to theaters beyond the nation, demography third with $12.1 actor ($15.1 actor total).
"Lionsgate has a solid hit on its easily with Sicario, and this will abide to authority up able-bodied over the next brace of weeks," says Phil Contrino, advance analyst for BoxOffice.com. "And Sicario will absolutely be in the awards chat this fall."Nancy Meyers' The Intern, the May-December associate blur starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro, took fourth in its additional weekend, earning $11.6 actor ($36.5 actor total). Young-adult adjustment Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials angled out the top 5 with $7.7 million, with a absolute of $63.2 actor afterwards 17 canicule in theaters.
The alpha of awards division was abounding with superior offerings, with three new civic releases heralded as must-sees by critics on Rotten Tomatoes for the aboriginal time in 2015: The Martian (94% analytical approval), Sicario (93%) and The Airing (86%).
The Walk, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt depicting Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire airing amid the Apple Trade Center towers, fabricated its IMAX admission in 448 locations, demography in a solid $1.6 actor in bound release.
The Robert Zemeckis-directed cine absent some business to The Martian, Contrino says.
"At the end of the day, it's two comedy movies traveling head-to-head," says Contrino. "One has got to win and it's appealing bright which one is: The Martian."
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