Weekend Estimates: Annabelle - 37.2M | Gone Girl - 38M | Equalizer - 19M | Maze Runner - 12M | Left Behind - 6.8M

[grim22]

Good start for both movies.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-annabelle-beats-gone-737872

 

Fueled by younger moviegoers, the horror spinoff takes in $2.1 million, while David Fincher's adult drama earns $1.3 million.

 

David Fincher's film adaptation of Gone Girl, the high-profile thriller starring Ben Affleck andRosamund Pike, and horror spinoff Annabelle both impressed as they began rolling out in theaters Thursday night, providing a much-needed boost for the North American box office following the worst September in six years.

New Line and Warner Bros.' Annabelle, fueled by younger moviegoers, took in a hearty $2.1 million. The $6.5 million film is a prequel to box-office hit The Conjuring, which grossed $3.4 million Thursday night on its way to a sizeable $41.9 million debut in July 2013 (a side character was a haunted doll named Annabelle).

Gone Girl, based on Gillian Flynn's popular novel, grossed $1.3 million, a pleasing number for an adult drama. Last year, Gravityearned $1.4 million on its first Thursday night on its way to a record $55.7 million debut, while Captain Phillips took in $600,000 on its way a $27.5 million weekend (Gone Girl is far less mainstream than Gravity).

 

Edited October 5, 2014 by CJohn

[Captain Craig]

Screw this, where is the number for The Nut Job?!!!

[baumer]

That seems like incredibly good numbers for both.

[Heat Vision]

Looks like we are getting more Conjuring in the future.

[John Marston]

good numbers. I expect Gone Girl to come ahead of Annabelle in the weekend. 

[Gopher]

Equalizer did 1.45m on Thursday, I could see Gone Girl pulling a similar weekend figure (which would be splendid).

[Krissykins]

Conjuring's multiplier gives Annabelle $25.9m.

 

But Annabelle will be more frontloaded as it's a spin-off so.... $23m?

 

I was expecting $30m+.

[Ezen Baklattan]

Equalizer did 1.45m on Thursday, I could see Gone Girl pulling a similar weekend figure (which would be splendid).

Gravity and Noah also had fairly similar amounts. I'm not sure where it'll end up landing, to be honest. However, I do recall that at a lot of theaters, it started at 10.

 

Either way, very strong numbers for both movies. Now give us Left Behind!

[Heat Vision]

Gravity and Noah also had fairly similar amounts. I'm not sure where it'll end up landing, to be honest. However, I do recall that at a lot of theaters, it started at 10.

Either way, very strong numbers for both movies. Now give us Left Behind!

20 million plus for Left Behind

[Krissykins]

Conjuring's multiplier gives Annabelle $25.9m.

 

But Annabelle will be more frontloaded as it's a spin-off so.... $23m?

 

I was expecting $30m+.

 

Ignore me, Insidious Chapter 2 got $1.5m late nights on Thursday.

 

Annabelle could go anywhere.

[grim22]

Gravity and Noah also had fairly similar amounts. I'm not sure where it'll end up landing, to be honest. However, I do recall that at a lot of theaters, it started at 10.

 

Either way, very strong numbers for both movies. Now give us Left Behind!

 

The Left Behind number is so high, they are still calculating it. Expect at least 45M midnights. 

[Jandrew]

Conjuring's multiplier gives Annabelle $25.9m.

 

But Annabelle will be more frontloaded as it's a spin-off so.... $23m?

 

I was expecting $30m+.

Its still too damn early. I'm on the east coast and its only been noon for 10 minutes. We've seen time and time before we cant just base off midnights. Let's wait for Friday numbers, $30M could still be in play.

[Alpha]

Conjuring's multiplier gives Annabelle $25.9m.

But Annabelle will be more frontloaded as it's a spin-off so.... $23m?

I was expecting $30m+.

That's because Conjuring was released in the summer, where midnight numbers are a bigger part of the weekend gross.

[Wrath]

That's because Conjuring was released in the summer, where midnight numbers are a bigger part of the weekend gross.

 

Yeah, I was astonished at how front-loaded Conjuring was.  Not so much OW as its actual opening day.  It went *down* 18% from Friday to Saturday.  Was pretty amazing.

[Donald]

This is a very sexy weekend!

[FilmBuff]

Holy crap. Left behind is getting destroyed by critics. Poor Nicholas Cage. Needs to go back to doing movies like con air.

[Godzilla]

It's going to be a close weekend methinks. 

 

Both could do $30M+. 

[grim22]

Holy crap. Left behind is getting destroyed by critics. Poor Nicholas Cage. Needs to go back to doing movies like con air.

 

[Frozen]

That's sad for Nic's career. He needs to money too.

[Captain Craig]

Well he turned down Ghost Rider 3 prompting SONY to turn the rights back over so he must be doing somewhat better.

He's stonewalling on National Treasure 3 as well.