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

[holcs]

wow….gone girl…amazing

[Fancyarcher]

Meanwhile Gone Girl doing big business is not even the most insane thing happening right now in the box office world as Dracula Untold will open bigger than 300 2, Godzilla, Captain America 2 and other big movies here. This thing is exploding OS. 

 

Will no doubt make up for its average / opening weekend over here in the states.

[RyneOh1040]

Hell yes, Gone Girl.  HELL YES.

 

Film of the year for me.  I mean, the book was good, but the film was a damn near masterpiece. 

 

Would be an absolute shame if Affleck, Pike and Fincher get overlooked come Oscar season.  They put in serious work.

[Fancyarcher]

Finally a horror movie smashing this year! I'm so glad. I hope that Annabelle can finish the Weekend in #1. *dreaming*

 

Too frontloaded for something like to happen.

[baumer]

Would love to see Gone Girl do 50 this weekend.

[kayumanggi]

'Annabelle' has already earned $7 million overseas, and is (so far) beating 'The Conjuring': http://t.co/xC2Q6wPGU7 pic.twitter.com/TAaA03qc9a

— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo)

October 4, 2014

[The Panda]

Would love to see Gone Girl do 50 this weekend.

 

50m for Gone Girl and around 30m for Annabelle, would this be the biggest weekend in October on record?

[75Live]

Would love to see Gone Girl do 50 this weekend.

 

Have you seen it yet?

[ky02121]

I've seen Gone Girl twice now

[baumer]

Im going to try tomorrow, 75.

[AniNate]

Lone weekend of interest for me until the epic 11/7 showdown

[The Panda]

I think this October as a whole is going to surprise people.

[Kalo]

Stop! I Need to see Gone Girl!! but I don't have time for anything with College :'(

[forg]

Good for both! Exciting start for the month

 

Annabelle is doing well here in my country too. Gone Girl opens next week but I don't expect it to smash although the book is popular

[kitik]

I think this October as a whole is going to surprise people.

 

 

Fury could do well.

 

I'm expecting Nightcrawler to be excellent, but to have awful box office numbers.

[Dragon]

Yes Gone Girl. Cant wait to see it on monday.

 

I still wanna see Annabelll. I love crappyy horror films. I mean I liked Thankskilling.This cant be worse than that

[MovieMan89]

Wow at both those ODs. Of course Annabelle will be uber frontloaded, but both should still have two of the bigger Oct openings. Nice needed shot in the arm to the B.O.

[Dragon]

Maze Runner is holding.

[Maxmoser3]

Saw Gone Girl earlier very good but strange movie

[grim22]

UPDATED FRIDAY 9:09 p.m.,: 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 $12-$13 million Friday, a small coup for Gone Girl,as most expected Annabelle to jump to an early lead thanks to horror fans who prefer Friday night viewing. And The Conjuring spinoff collected a healthy $2.1 million on Thursday night, beating Insidious Chapter 2‘s $1.5 million Thursday bow last year on its way to $40.2 million. Annabelle’s opening day suggests the New Line flick will meet the high end of projections with a haul of $24-$26 million.

 

Gone Girl, meanwhile, could be fall’s first hit. It, too, collected $12-$13 million, which could put it on course for $36-$38 million, well below Fox’s conservative estimate of $22-$24 million. And with an approval rating of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, word-of-mouth should be excellent for the David Finch-Ben Affleck thriller, a surge Annabelle won’t enjoy.

 

And while Left Behind was expected to lag, it wasn’t by this much. Playing on less than 1,800 screens, it plucked a still-anemic $1.5-$2 million on Friday, putting the Freestyle Releasing pic on a trajectory of $4-$6 million.

Edited October 4, 2014 by grim22