Well, it’s official – David Fincher’s Gone Girl is the winner in another weekend box office race. It wasn’t even a close one this time. On its second weekend, the mystery thriller saw a 29% drop, but still made it to $ 78 million.
Gone Girl is Fincher’s top grossing film to date.
With $ 26,8 million, Gone Girl narrowly beat our the critically panned Dracula Untold. The gory, vaguely historical flick came in second with $ 23,5 million, meaning that, despite abysmal reviews, Drac still has a shot at next week’s throne. Recently, director Gary Shore even let slip that he’s thinking about a possible sequel. Even though nothing’s been greenlit just yet, it looks like we won’t be rid of the Romanian prince for a while. Sigh.
Watch the trailer for Dracula Untold below.
Third was Jennifer Garner’s latest flick, the Disney comedy Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which brought in a respectable $ 19.1 million. If you’re curious, Very Bad Day tells the story of a boy, who starts his day with gum stuck in his hair and goes on from one calamity to the next. As Alexander wonders why bad things happen only to him, his mother, father and whole family are having terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days of their own. “Amid a sea of darker genre fare, this movie is a lighter alternative and we are set up for a long, profitable run,” Disney distribution chief Dave Hollis said for The Hollywood Reporter.
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Watch the trailer for Very Bad Day below.
Rounding out the top five this week are a holdover from weekends past – horror prequel Annabelle with $ 16,4 million – and Robert Downey Jr.’s new courtroom dramedy The Judge. Despite being solid adult fare, poor timing meant that The Judge was overshadowed by Gone Girl, which caters to the same crowd. The David Dobkin film made only $ 13.3 million on a $ 50 million budget.
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