Box Office Week: Boo! A Madea Halloween maintains at #1 with $16.6 mil as Inferno flops in its domestic premiere, coming in at #2 with $15 mil against no new releases. Overseas Dr. Strange performed very well opening to $86 mil.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
1	Boo! A Madea Halloween	$16,675,000	$52,227,872	2
2	Inferno	$15,000,000	$147,700,000	1
3	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back	$9,550,000	$93,879,177	2
4	The Accountant	$8,475,000	$81,957,172	3
5	Ouija: Origin of Evil	$7,070,000	$43,738,625	2

Notable Box Office Stories:

• Maybe it's just the utter failure of Inferno but Boo! A Madea Halloween continues to surprise, holding on to #1 with $16.6 mil. That means the film only dropped 41.5%, the best second weekend drop ever for a Madea film and only the second Madea film (A Madea Christmas) to drop below 50%, with most Madea films playing well to their target audiences in opening then dropping like a rock after. It certainly helps that the film has an A on Cinemascore and is benefitting from the time of year, but as mentioned having only one major release to contend with that doesn't do very well certainly helps. With much stronger competition coming next week it will be interesting to see if this was just a lucky strike or if Madea really is becoming a more universal brand than she was just a few years ago.

• Inferno - Despite opening incredibly well and Tom Hanks charming the hell out of you on every possible TV show right nodone with w, it seems US audiences are quite Robert Langdon as the film opened at #2 to a terrible $15 mil. Now of course here comes the qualifiers. Obviously to start this domestic release comes two weeks into a fantastic international release which has so far earned $132.7 mil. Secondly the film cost significantly less than the other two Langdon films ($75 mil compared to $150 mil). However that probably isn't conciliation for Sony who not only were hoping for the $45- $65 mil ballpark opening of the last two films, but have had a really rough year in terms of blockbusters. While the budget and release clearly show they couched their bets it's a definite disappointment especially with the seemingly renewed interest in Tom Hanks after the runaway success of Sully. And while the film has indeed done well overseas, the release of Doctor Strange has already taken away a ton of screens as shown by the 55% drops in its two biggest markets this week, Russia and the UK. As for what caused such a disasterous opening there could be many factors. The extremely negative reviews certainly don't help and neither does the fan outrage over the change from the very dark ending of the novel to a much more Hollywood upbeat version, but really the ultimate answer is audience apathy. It's been more than a decade since the runaway success of The Da Vinci Code novel and I think Brown's protagonist is to unrecognizable to have a lasting impact on the brand even with a face in Tom Hanks. It's just a different world than 2006 and puzzle solving professors who aren't named Indiana don't fit into it.

• Doctor Strange - While an MCU film doing well financially is no surprise, it is impressive just how well Doctor Strange has opened overseas, especially for a new character to the big screen. Currently the film has made $83 mil overseas, surpassing Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World in terms of foreign openings. Right now the film is expected to open better than Ant-Man for around $50 mil - $75 mil. A lot of this haul is coming from IMAX, as Strange will be getting the biggest IMAX release in history as the first film to ever be on over 1,000 IMAX screens worldwide. Currently the film has made $7.3 mil in the format alone and that's only 1/5 of the planned IMAX screens. So check back next week to see the immortal question answered, will a Marvel Studios movie make a lot of money or a stupid amount of money?

Films Reddit Wants to Follow

This is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget	Week #
Finding Dory	$485,690,436	$1,021,190,436	$200 mil	20
Ghostbusters (2016)	$128,272,761	$229,069,696	$144 mil	16
Suicide Squad	$324,390,552	$744,890,552	$175 mil	13
Hell or High Water	$26,750,733	$29,670,733	$12 mil	11
Kubo and the Two Strings	$47,603,334	$67,503,334	$60 mil	11

Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
Jason Bourne	$162,192,920	$412,930,195	$120 mil
Bad Moms	$113,257,297	$179,357,297	$20 mil
Mechanic: Resurrection	$21,218,403	$90,163,490	$40 mil
Blair Witch (2016)	$20,777,061	$42,346,214	$5 mil
The Disappointments Room	$2,423,468	$2,423,468	$15 mil

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Submitted October 31, 2016 at 11:48PM by mi-16evil http://ift.tt/2f5bWxU