Box Office

As the studios batten down the hatches and prepare for the category five storm of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, due out in theatres worldwide in two weeks, there were few new entries to the domestic and international markets. Warner Bros.

Along with turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie, Americans filled up again on The Hunger Games over this Thanksgiving weekend. Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, the last entry in Lionsgate’s wildly successful four-movie series, made $75.

With Bond starting to return his famous Walther PPK to the holster, Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of District 12 and The Hunger Games, notched her bow and fired a strong first shot at the U. S.

In the wake of the horrific and senseless attacks in Paris on Friday most thought that the country’s box office would reflect the grieving nation’s somber mood, but even with most of France’s theatres shuttered on Saturday and only a small number having their debut on Sunday, Spectre had a $14. 6 million opening in the country, including a record-breaking first Wednesday where over 850,000 tickets were sold.

A spectre is haunting the Earth - the Spectre of James Bond. In its second week in theatres Sony’s latest Bond film added a hefty $117.

Halloween served up a scare for Hollywood, as a host of star-studded awards vehicles and the requisite horror thrillers all flopped at the domestic box office. Sandra Bullock, who plays the lead in and produced political passion project Our Brand is Crisis, saw the lowest wide release opening of her career with just $3.

It was a scary week in the North American market – and Halloween is not even here yet. Every single movie opening domestically flopped – and flopped badly.

Goosebumps, a horror-comedy based on the children’s book series and starring Jack Black, is the new domestic champ. The film grossed $23 million, stealing the top spot from the space epic The Martian, which, in its third week, grossed $21.

Warner Brothers knew that Pan, Joe Wright’s Peter Pan’s original story, was going to be a difficult sell but they probably did not expect the disappointment to be as big. Specifically that they would be beaten so hard by The Martian<i; as="" awards="" buzz.

Perhaps it was NASA’s announcement just a few days short of the debut – a pure coincidence according to the space agency – that its scientists had discovered evidence that water still flows in Mars’s valleys. It could have been also Ridley Scott’s direction, who at 77 and after a few misfires, seems to have found the rhythm of films such as Alien and Thelma and Louise, or the presence of Matt Damon, in the lead of the film as a modern day Robinson Crusoe who takes us on a journey into outer and also into his inner space.