2017-10-22 18:56:03 | Box Office Battle: 'Boo 2' wins weekend with $21.7MLionsgate's (LGF.A) "Boo 2! A Madea Halloween" ended its debut weekend in first place, with $21.7M from 2,388 theaters. The movie tells how Madea, Aunt Bam, Viv and Hattie take a vacation to a campground with their family members, only to encounter monsters, goblins and boogeymen. The movie earned an A- CinemaScore and got 8% from Rotten Tomatoes. BOX OFFICE RUNNERS-UP: Warner Bros. (TWX) "Geostorm" followed at number two, with $13.3M domestically. Behind it was Universal (CMCSA) and Blumhouse's "Happy Death Day," earning 9.4M from 3,298 theaters. Distributed by Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures (SNE), "Blade Runner 2049" came in fourth with $7.2M from 3,203 theaters. Rounding out the top five, Sony's critically acclaimed "Only the Brave" opened to $6M from 2,577 theaters. Other publicly traded companies in filmmaking include 21st Century Fox (FOXA), Viacom (VIAB; VIA) and Walt Disney (DIS). | |
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