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Fall continued to rebound from a dismal summer as Annabelle and Gone Girl broke to healthy starts at the box office, ballooning some projections for Gone Girl above $35 million for the weekend.
Both R-rated movies collected $13-$15 million Friday, with the early nod going to the Conjuring spinoff as horror fans prefer Friday night viewing. Annabelle collected a healthy $$14-$14.5 million. Annabelle‘s opening suggests the New Line flick will best projections with a three-day haul of $30-33 million.
Gone Girl, meanwhile, could be fall’s first hit. It, too, collected $12-$13 million, which could put it on course for $35-$38 million, well above Fox’s conservative estimate of $22-$24 million. And with an approval rating of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, word-of-mouth stronger for the David Finch-Ben Affleck thriller than it will be for Annabelle, as older audience are more likely to read reviews. Both earned “B” grades from CinemaScore.
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