Spectre Easily Takes the Top at the Box Office

The latest installment in the James Bond franchise, Spectre, easily dominated the box office this weekend.  It raked in $73 million for first place, beating out a strong debut from The Peanuts Movie ($45 million) and also helping this weekend to become the biggest weekend since early July.

Despite taking the top spot, Spectre's debut is significantly behind Skyfall's $88.4 million.  This is probably due to it's less than stellar reviews compared to Skyfall (64% Tomatometer vs 93% Tomatometer). In fact, it is the lowest reviewed Bond film of the Daniel Craig era, just dipping below Quantum of Solace's 65% Tomatometer.  Perhaps the silver lining is that it has already grossed more than $300 million worldwide.

In other news, The Peanuts Movie had a solid debut with $45 million, which was aided by solid reviews (86% Tomatometer), zero competition, and the upcoming Holiday Season.


Weekend Estimates

Movie	Weekend Gross	Total Gross	Budget
1) Spectre 2) The Peanuts Movie 3) The Martian 4) Goosebumps 5) Bridge of Spies 6) Hotel Transylvania 2   7) Burnt  8) The Last Witch Hunter 9) The Intern 10) PA: The Ghost Dimension	$73 million $45 million $9.3 million $7 million $6.1 million $3.6 million $3.0 million $2.7 million $1.8 million $1.7 million	$73 million $45 million $197.1 million $66.4 million $55 million $161.3 million $10.2 million $23.6 million $71.4 million $16.2 million	$250 million $100 million $108 million $58 million $40 million $80 million $20 million $70 million $35 million $10 million