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

[MrPink]

Right? So Basic Instinct. 

 

So Hollow Man.

[bcf26]

Eh, she's going to get some notice for Wild, anyway. That film shouldn't have any trouble finding an audience.

OMG! That avatar! It's GLORIOUS 

[Godot]

Got back from "Gone Girl". Awesome movie, but I can understand why the cinemascore is so low. The movie 

just like the book, leaves you with a feeling of "justice has not been done".

. In fact that was one of the big complaints I heard from people while getting out of the theater.

 

The lady sitting right behind me who must have been 50 at least, could not stop giggling like a schoolgirl throughout the 50 Shades trailer, and for some time after the trailer was done as well. 

Edited October 5, 2014 by Godot

[Mango]

So I'm sitting in the theater waiting for a 10:00 Gone Girl show and its like 15% full. There was a line for the 10:10 Annabelle that was fucking HUGE.

Fuck you, citizens of Georgia.

just kidding about the last part but seriously wtf

[grim22]

Some were saved, and some were based on the new york times bestseller

 

[Ozymandias]

The scene in Gone Girl where Rosamund Pike 

waits for Neil Patrick Harris to ejaculate inside her and then grabs the box cutter and slits his throat open

is one of the best of the decade. 

 

I was floored by that scene.  Brilliantly executed, totally a moment.

Edited October 5, 2014 by Ozymandias

[filmlover]

Men, Women and Children is by no means a great film but who in their right mind thought releasing it on the same day as Gone Girl was a good idea?  Same goes for The Good Lie.  All three films pull a similar audience.  Both Paramount and Warner Bros. are completely clueless when it comes to scheduling a limited roll-out and it's most likely because they prematurely shuttered all of their specialty film divisions back in 2008.  Sony Pictures Classics has no problem getting great per-screen averages on even marginal films because they know the business.  They use counter-programming to their advantage and they pay close attention to the theatres they book.  Paramount royally screwed up the releases of Young Adult and Labor Day as well.  I'm going to assume Reitman signed a three picture deal with the studio after Up in the Air or he would have jumped ship long ago.  

I think the movies themselves deserve a good portion of the blame for the most part by not looking particularly appealing and getting bad reviews to boot. Labor Day looked like a Lifetime movie that somehow managed to attract A-list talent, while Men Women & Children looks like a one-sided diatribe on The Evils of Social Media. Unappealing stories + poor reviews + much more appealing movies out there = no audience left, so it's hard to expect much better. Shame about Reitman though, he's rapidly approaching "flash in the pan" territory.

[Breakspear]

The scene in Gone Girl where Rosamund Pike 

waits for Neil Patrick Harris to ejaculate inside her and then grabs the box cutter and slits his throat open

is one of the best of the decade. 

Agreed. The score during that scene gave me shivers as well. 

[RyneOh1040]

The scene in Gone Girl where Rosamund Pike 

waits for Neil Patrick Harris to ejaculate inside her and then grabs the box cutter and slits his throat open

is one of the best of the decade. 

I looked at my friend as we walked out and said 'i hate to throw around the word iconic...but that scene truly will be remembered'

[Donald]

Any updates? Its it already 10:00pm on the east coast?

[AniNate]

I looked at my friend as we walked out and said 'i hate to throw around the word iconic...but that scene truly will be remembered'

 

Personally, the scene that stuck with me most was

 

The montage reveal of Amy's scheme. The editing + music + Pike's line delivery made it extremely entertaining.

[La Binoche]

I hope GG does $15M+ today. But what if fans of the book rushed out opening day? 

[picores]

Around 15 for GG and 12 for Annabelle i guess.

[Kevin Bacon]

One of my favorite musical moments, I believe this is the one, was when Nick opens up the

woodshed full of shit as the police find the diary

as the sort of peaceful music starts getting loud and noisy before abruptly stopping just as he opens it and the scene ends. That was so Nine Inch Nails-y it gave me a big fat Reznor stiffy for like five minutes.

 

The track is "Like Home", by the way, one of my favorites.

 

 

EDIT: On second thought, it might've been the scene where

Nick shoves Amy that it plays during. I recall the music lining up with one of her "I'm frightened of my own husband" voiceovers that was in the trailer, and I don't recall any voiceover during the woodshed scene. Actually, it definitely wasn't the woodshed scene, because I'm remembering now that that was "The Way He Looks at Me". So I'm thinking the shoving scene. The music started with them just doing normal married couple stuff and it escalates as the music gets more intensely noisy.

Edited October 5, 2014 by Seth Rollins

[Donald]

Hope its 18 4. Annabelle just to shock naysayers!

[maryksinger]

Hope its 18 4. Annabelle just to shock naysayers!

impossible

[Mango]

Wow. Gone Girl was good. Gonna have to see that one again sometime.

[Blankments]

I like most songs you used. But having 'Gone, Gone Gone' there is a guaranteed way to get a like

I'll also go see 'Gone Girl' this weekend. 

I saw it, and am glad with these numbers. Great movie that deserves it.

 

 

Your boner for all things horror is really impressive. 

I know right? Everytime I see Krissykins excited about a seemingly crappy horror film, I still am surprised

 

 

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

Seriously... I don't get it.

[baumer]

Unless you have a love for horror, you'll never get the affinity for everything horror.  Sometimes bad horror is still good.  I like to see the genre succeed as well.

[La Binoche]

1). Gone Girl (FOX), 3014 theaters / $13.2MFri. / 15.25MSat. /3-day est. cume: 38M/ Wk 1
2). Annabelle (WB), 3185 theaters /$15.45MFri. / 14.3MSat. / 3-day est. cume: $37M+/ Wk 1
3). The Equalizer (SONY), 3236 theaters (0)/ $5.6M Fri. / 8.4MSat. / $3-day est. cume: $18M+ (-44%) / Wk 2
4). The Boxtrolls (FOC), 3464 theaters (0)/ $2.7M Fri. / 6M+ Sat. / 3-day est. cume: $12.5M (-27%) / Wk 2
5). The Maze Runner (FOX), 3605 theaters (-33) / $3.4M Fri. / 5.5M Sat. /3-day est. cume: $12M / Wk 3