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US Box Office Report – Gone Girl beats Annabelle with a career best of $38 million

October 5, 2014 by Luke Owen

The US Box Office Report for week commencing 3rd October 2014…

It was a fiercely fought competition over the weekend between the big budget thriller Gone Girl and the low budget horror Annabelle, with the latter seemingly on point to take the number one spot. But it was Fincher’s adaptation that eventually topped the chart in a record-breaking weekend.

Gone Girl is now the biggest opening weekend of David Fincher’s movies taking an estimated $38 million, beating his previous record of $30 million held by Panic Room in 2002. The movie also performed well overseas with around $24.6 million, giving it a opening total of $62.2 million against a $61 million budget. The movie, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, has opened in 39 terriroties around the world and earned an average of $12,600 per screen in the US. Read our reviews here and here, and listen to our podcast review below:

But with an estimated budget of $6.5 million, Annabelle is the real winner of the box office weekend with a whopping $32 million domestically, despite the slating reviews from the press. However, this number is down 22% on the $41 million its predecessor The Conjuring took last year. Annabelle was the number one movie as of Friday, but a strong push for Gone Girl on Saturday and Sunday means it will have to settle for second place. Read our review here and listen to the podcast review below:

In other news, August and September mainstays Let’s Be Cops and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fell out of the Top 10 this week, but Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy has held on for a tenth week, bringing James Gunn’s space opera to $653 million worldwide.

Here’s your top 10 and their domestic totals:

  |Title| |Weekend| |Total| |Wk(s)|
1 Gone Girl $38 million $38 million 1
2 Annabelle $32 million $32 million 1
3 The Equalizer $19 million $64.5 million 2
4 The Boxtrolls $12.4 million $32.5 million 2
5 The Maze Runner $12 million $73.9 million 3
6 Left Behind $6.8 million $6.8 million 1
7 This is Where I Leave You $4 million $29 million 3
8 Dolphin Tale 2 $3.5 million $37.9 million 4
9 Guardians of the Galaxy $3 million $323.3 million 10
10 No Good Deed $2.5 million $50.1 million 4

Last year’s number one – Gravity ($55 million)

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