Box Office Week: Doctor Strange premieres at #1 with an impressive $84.9 mil, pushing Disney passed $6 bil worldwide for the year, the second time ever for a studio. Trolls opens to a great $45.6 mil while Hacksaw Ridge couldn't translate good reviews into box office, opening at #3 with $14.7 mil.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
1	Doctor Strange	$84,989,000	$325,389,000	1
2	Trolls	$45,600,000	$149,602,545	1
3	Hacksaw Ridge	$14,750,000	$14,750,000	1
4	Boo! A Madea Halloween	$7,800,000	$65,635,682	3
5	Inferno	$6,250,000	$185,357,930	2

Notable Box Office Stories:

• Marvel continues to prove itself as the most stable franchise in Hollywood as Doctor Strange opened to #1 with $84.9 mil, a notable feat for several reasons. First up, this plus the $118.7 mil Strange earned overseas has pushed Disney's worldwide gross to over $6 bil, the second time ever for a studio (last year Universal made $6.98 bil). Keep in mind Moana still has the prime 5 day Thanksgiving slot ahead as well as the upcoming ultimate test for just how damn popular the Star Wars brand is with Rogue One, so Disney way well become the first to pass $7 bil. It wasn't just Disney records with Strange, as this is the 14th MCU film to premiere at #1 that means the MCU films are now tied with the Pixar brand for the most consecutive #1 premieres in a row. That means if Spiderman: Homecoming (which counts as an MCU film the same way the Universal film The Incredible Hulk does) premiere at #1 Marvel will clench the record for good as while Inside Out did have an incredible opening it stopped the Pixar #1 premiere record by premiering at #2 against the insane juggernaut that was Jurassic World. However these are just nominal awards so let's talk about the actual success of Doctor Strange. The film was the second best solo origin film for Marvel behind Iron Man and the 8th best comic book origin story opening of any kind. The film did very well on IMAX, the biggest IMAX release ever which brought in $24.2 mil worldwide this weekend. 3D was also a a big as 45% of Doctor Strange sales this week were in 3D. The real surprise was China, where the film opened to $44.3 mil mostly due to the apparent huge popularity of Benedict Cumberbatch and his show Sherlock over there. That's actually the third best MCU Chinese opening behind Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, so expect very big things for the film there. Domestically, Doctor Strange should hold very well with little competition and an A on Cinemascore but Moana should slow it down by the end of the month. Still the film should easily clear $200 mil domestic by the end of its run and marks yet another major success for Marvel.

• Maybe it's the popularity of the Justin Timberlake song, the lack of recent animated kids films, or people still remember the dolls but Trolls surpassed expectations coming at #2 with $45.6 mil. Last year saw the release of The Peanuts Movie in the same slot and Trolls performed about the same. Trolls does have some breathing room in its odd Novemeber slot as the only new colorful kids film option before Moana takes that all away. Helping the film is certainly the impressive international appeal where the film has earned $104 mil so far, especially with good showings in France and UK. While the film probably isn't looking at a massive success it will likely clear $300 mil worldwide and could hold well with its A Cinemascore.

• While critics and audience reviews have embraced the return of Mel Gibson, the box office didn't translate as Hacksaw Ridge came in at #3 with a disappointing $14.7 mil. It's hard to pin down exactly why the film received very good reviews yet couldn't translate to box office. The most obvious could be Mel himself, who's still closely associated with the defaming remarks he made several years ago. The marketing in the US notably left off Mel's name in the posters and trailers but it's hard to know if public rejected it because of Mel or because they didn't know it was by Mel. A more sociopolitical reason may be that in the final throws of a bitter election most people wanted escapism with singing trolls and magic wizards than bloody violent war. Perhaps the most likely though is that old perineal boogeyman, the marketing which was fairly absent and perhaps so worried about the association with Mel downplayed the main character's important religious beliefs which may have brought out a Christian audience. The bright spot for Hacksaw though may be what little audience it had which was almost primarily over the age of 35 and gave the film an A on Cinemascore (it was a great weekend at the movies according to that poll), which could help the film have decent legs. Still this probably isn't the major comeback Gibson was probably hoping for and any possible Oscar noms will come too late to help.

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	$485,918,426	$1,024,018,426	$200 mil	21
Ghostbusters (2016)	$128,325,112	$229,122,047	$144 mil	17
Suicide Squad	$324,775,416	$745,275,416	$175 mil	14
Hell or High Water	$26,855,601	$29,775,601	$12 mil	12
Kubo and the Two Strings	$47,776,521	$68,676,521	$60 mil	12

Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
Ice Age: Collision Course	$64,063,008	$407,052,739	$105 mil
The Light Between Oceans	$12,545,979	$15,897,589	$20 mil
Max Steel	$3,818,664	$4,302,263	$20 mil

As always /r/boxoffice is a great place to share links and other conversations about box office news.

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Submitted November 07, 2016 at 11:10PM by mi-16evil http://ift.tt/2fsm0B3