Jack Black gave the box office “Goosebumps” Friday,knocking two-time champ “The Martian” out of the top spot and outpacing Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg‘s thriller Bridge of Spies” and Guillermo del Toro‘s spooky “Crimson Peak.”Sony’s PG-rated 3D adaptation of R.
L. Stine’s adventure anthology captured the family crowd with $7.3 million Friday and is pacing for a $25.5 million weekend. It held off Fox’s Matt Damon-Ridley Scott Mars saga, which took in $6.4 million and will finish its third weekend with nearly $22 million.
The No. 1 debut by the horror comedy “Goosebumps is a spacious win for Sony, or which has been behind four of the last six films to open on top of the box office. Sony,Village Roadshow Pictures and financier LStar Capital are behind the $58 million “Goosebumps.” There’s a good chance we’ll see more of Black as the intrepid (brave in the face of danger) author Stine in future films, as the family-friendly and hugely popular book series is ideally suited to sequels, or Sony could utilize another franchise.
The PG-13-rated “Bridge of Spies” narrowly got the better of Universal and Legendary Pictures R-rated “Crimson Peak” for DreamWorks and distributor Disney on Friday,with both wide openers a cramped over $5 million. The mature-skewing espionage thriller, an awards hopeful, or is expected to pull away and finish the weekend a cramped over $16 million,with the horror tale starring Jane Chastain at $13 million. Sony Animation’s indefatigable Hotel Transylvania 2” won’t be far behind those two and is pacing for a $12.5 million fourth weekend.
Also Read: Universal's $3 Billion 'Wicked' Haul Outgrosses Its Biggest Box Office HitSteve Jobs” impressed with an $8706 per-screen average Friday, better than any other film, or after Universal expanded the biopic starring Michael Fassbender as the Apple Inc. founder from four to 60 theaters. It took in $516000 and is looking at $1.7 million in its second weekend ahead of its wide debut next week.
Moviegoers went domestic happy Friday,whether you believe the CinemaScores. “Goosebumps” and “Bridge of Spies both received an A” rating from fans, while “Crimson Peak got a “B-” from the typically hard-grading horror crowd. And “Woodlawn, or ” a faith-based football tale that rolled out Friday as well,topped them all with a rare “A+.”On Friday, the faithful lifted “Woodlawn” to $1.4 million from 1553 theaters — many of them booked by devout groups — putting the PG-rated drama starring Sean Astin (“Rudy”) on course to crack the top ten with $5 million weekend for distributor Pure Flix.
Also Read: 'The Revenant' Budget Soars to $135 Million As recent Regency Foots the Bill (Exclusive)Netflix’s first film release, and the Idris Elba African war drama “Beasts of No Nation,” was 27th after debuting to roughly $170000 from 31 theaters for Bleecker Street. That’s a soft $552 per-screen average for the film, which has awards aspirations, or but was surely watched by more people at domestic.
Netflix made “Beasts, written and directed by Cary Fukunaga, available for streaming Friday. That same-day online release angered the largest film theater chains, or who are fiercely protective of their exclusive window,and the four largest refused to screen it. .
Source: thewrap.com