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Despite being the number one film from Monday-to-Thursday, staying ahead of Maze Runner, Black Mass got pummeled over the weekend, as its older audience avoided Friday. The comparable Friday number was off a hurtful 60%, which led to a weekend gross of $11.5 million and a weekend to weekend drop of 49%. The $53 million Johnny Depp flick has now pulled in $42.6 million, and is headed for about $65 million stateside. I’m not sure how this one will work overseas. The Town earned $61 million over there, but it was $30 million short of its domestic gross. Using that logic, Black Mass would earn $40 million overseas, for a combined $110 million, which isn’t enough for a movie with a $53 million budget. Johnny Depp will probably be the difference for those international audiences.

The Visit is sixth this weekend, as M Night Shyamalan’s low rent release continues to churn out box office bucks. The Visit earned another $6.8 million, and while it was off 42%, it brought its domestic gross up to $52.3 million, not bad for a movie that cost $5 million to make. It has also started to score overseas, where it’s picked up $6.6 million from the UK and Spain alone. The Visit will end up funding other features for Shyamalan, which in my opinion is a good thing.

Screen Gems’ The Perfect Guy drops to seventh and sees a second consecutive weekend with a big drop. After falling 62% last weekend to $9.8 million, things repeat, with The Perfect Guy earning $4.8 million this weekend and dropping 51%. Still, like The Visit, this one was economical and is now successful. The Perfect Guy cost $12 million to make and has a domestic gross so far of $48.9 million.

War Room is eighth as the faith-based film continues to hang on. This time around, War Room earned $4.3 million and declined a mere 31%. So far, this $3 million film has taken in $56 million.

Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno is an interesting entry on the box office chart. Jason Blum is behind the release of Inferno, and chose to release this one to only 1,540 venues, focusing the marketing on die-hard horror fans. The result isn’t much, as The Green Inferno debuted to $3.5 million. That’s the lowest opening of Eli Roth’s career, but it also debuted on 500 fewer screens than his lowest grosser. Made for $6 million, this one still has a chance, as Roth’s films actually do quite well overseas.

Despite being out to only 59 screens, Lionsgate’s Sicario still makes the top ten this weekend. After earning $400,000 from six screens last weekend (venue average $66,881), audiences stayed with Sicario after it expanded this frame. The Emily Blunt/Benicio Del Toro flick took in an awesome $1.8 million from those 59 screens, giving it another stellar venue average of $30,000. Sicario is so far following a similar pattern to Boyhood last year, as it earned average of $77,000 in its first weekend at five venues, and followed that up with an average of $34,000 on 34 screens. So far, Sicario has earned $2.4 million, and is currently the film I want to see the most in this weekend’s top 10.

Overall, the top 12 films at the box office set a record for a September weekend. The top 12 earned $127.5 million this weekend thanks to a strong top five. This amount hammers last year’s big 12, which took in $98 million. The previous biggest September top 12 is ironically the last time a Hotel Transylvania film opened, on September 28, 2012, when the box office took in $106.7 million.

Next weekend, things get even bigger. The Martian, Ridley Scott’s Oscar hopeful with Matt Damon, will debut as a wide release, pushing toward 4,000 venues. I think it could see Gravity type numbers ($55.8 million), but it will open on 200 more screens. Additionally, Sicario will go wide following its very impressive limited roll out, and The Walk will attempt to do what Everest did so well last weekend – debut strongly at IMAX-only locations. Add that to the strength we’ve seen at the box office this weekend, and we should start October very strongly, continuing the roll we are on.

Top Weekend Box Office for 9/25/15-9/27/15 (Estimates)
Rank	Film	Distributor	Estimated Gross	Weekly Change	Running Total
1	Hotel Transylvania 2	Sony	$47,500,000	New	$47,500,000
2	The Intern	DreamWorks	$18,225,000	New	$18,225,000
3	Maze Runner: the Scorch Trials	Fox	$14,000,000	- 54%	$5,168,500
4	Everest	Universal	$13,091,130	+ 81%	$23,130,935
5	Black Mass	WARNER BROS.	$11,510,000	- 49%	$42,608,000
6	The Visit	Universal	$6,749,925	- 42%	$52,260,505
7	The Perfect Guy	Sony	$4,750,000	- 51%	$48,871,000
8	War Room	Sony	$4,275,000	- 31%	$56,000,000
9	The Green Inferno	High Top Releasing	$3,494,000	New	$3,494,000
10	Sicario	Lionsgate	$1,770,000	+ 341%	$2,350,594
11	A Walk in the Woods		$1,100,000	- 61%	$27,250,000
12	Pawn Sacrifice	Bleecker Street	$1,020,979	+ 405%	$1,315,410
	Also Opening/Notables
	Lost In Hong Kong	Well Go Usa	$558,900	New	$558,900
	Stonewall	Roadside Attractions	$110,000	New	$110,000
	99 Homes	Broad Green Pictures	$32,807	New	$32,807
	Mississippi Grind	A24	$14,335	New	$14,335
	Finders Keepers	The Orchard	$5,740	New	$5,740
	Captive	Paramount	$505,000	- 64%	$2,286,000
	Prophet's Prey	Showtime Documentary Films	$7,150	+ 43%	$13,532
	Sleeping With Other People	IFC Films	$120,000	+ 29%	$370,000
	Goodnight Mommy	Radius/TWC	$108,344	+ 133%	$280,257
	Coming Home	Sony Classics	$33,087	- 8%	$129,515
	Grandma	Sony Classics	$814,778	- 46%	$5,176,359
	Mission: Impossible0 Rogue Nation	Paramount	$920,000	- 58%	$193,474,000
Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations

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