BOX OFFICE: FURY Didn't Tank, But DRACULA UNTOLD Did

BOX OFFICE: FURY Didn't Tank, But DRACULA UNTOLD Did

After last weekend's strong second-place finish Universal's Dracula Untold will drop 65% in its second weekend at the North American box office. Brad Pitt's Fury will claim first-place with $24M+.

By nailbiter111 - Oct 18, 2014 11:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Dracula
Source: deadline.com
Fury, which stars Brad Pitt ("Meet Joe Black") and was directed by David Ayer ("End of Watch"), will debut in first-place this weekend. The World War II film pulled in $8.8M on Friday and is now estimated to have a total just north of $24M for the weekend. Last week's box office champ, Gone Girl, which stars Ben Affleck ("Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice") and was directed by David Fincher ("Panic Room"), will finish in second-place this weekend with $18M. That'll push its domestic total over $100M. Universal's Dracula Untold took a 65% tumble from last weekend's strong second-place finish. It will end up in sixth-place with only  $8.5M to $9.3M. Michael Keaton's Birdman opened in just four theaters this weekend and had a healthy $112K per-screen-average.

 

1). Fury (SONY), 3,173 theaters / $8.8M Fri. (includes $1.2M latenights)
3-day est. cume $24.3M to $25M / Wk 1

2). Gone Girl (FOX), 3,248 theaters / $5.5M Fri.
3-day cume: $18M to $18.4M / Total cume: $107.7M / Wk 3

3). The Book of Life (FOX), 3,071 theaters / $4.9M Fri. (includes $330K late nights)
3-day cume: $17.8M to $18M / Wk 1

4). Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (DIS), 3088 theaters
$3.2M Fri. / 3-day cume: $13M (-29%) / Total cume: $37.8M / Wk 2

5). The Best of Me (REL), 2,936 theaters / $4.1M Fri. (includes $550K late nights)
3-day cume: $10.3M to $10.9M (Relativity thinks $11M to $12M) / Wk 1

6). Dracula Untold (UNI), 2,900 theaters (+13) / $2.9M Fri.
3-day cume: $8.5M to $9.3M (-65%) / Total cume: $39.2M to $40M / Wk 2

7). The Judge (WB), 3003 theaters (0) / $2.45M Fri.
3-day cume: $8M (-38%) / Total cume: $27M / Wk 2

8). Annabelle (WB), 2,878 theaters (-337) / $2.45M Fri.
3-day cume: $7.6M / Total cume: $73.8M / Wk 3

9). The Equalizer (SONY), 2,262 theaters (-885) / $1.5M Fri.
3-day cume: $5.3M / Total cume: $89M / Wk 4

10). The Maze Runner (FOX), 2,155 theaters (-917) / $1.2M Fri.
3-day cume: $4.4M / Total cume: $90.8M / Wk 5

11). Addicted (LGF), 1,037 theaters (+191) / $1.1M Fri.
3-day cume: $3.55M (-53%) / Total cume: $12.9M / Wk 1

15). Meet the Mormons (PUR), 317 theaters (0) / $270K Fri.
3-day cume: $678K (-73%) / Per screen average: $2,000 / Total cume: $4.6M / Wk 2

16). St. Vincent (TWC), 68 theaters (+64) / $187K Fri.
3-day cume: $650K (+491%) / Per screen: $9,556 / Total cume: $802K / Wk 2

18). Kill the Messenger (FOC), 427 theaters (+53) / $145K Fri.
3-day cume: $490K (-48%) / Per screen: $1,150 / Total cume: $1.9M / Wk 2

19). Birdman (FSL), 4 theaters / $136K Fri.
3-day cume: $444K / Per screen: $111,024 / Total cume: $444K / Wk 1

20). Dear White People (RSA), 11 theaters / $126K Fri.
3-day cume: $376K / Per screen: $34,155 / Wk 1

Luke Evans (Fast & Furious 6, Immortals) stars in Dracula Untold, the origin story of the man who became Dracula. Gary Shore directs and Michael De Luca produces the epic action-adventure that co-stars Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Diarmaid Murtagh and Samantha Barks.

Starring: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Diarmaid Murtagh, Dominic Cooper, Samantha Barks
Directed By Gary Shore * Screenplay By Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless
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hgokuh
hgokuh - 10/18/2014, 11:45 AM
Probably all the Monsters movies will be replanted now. Ayer is one of the best directors today, can't wait for his Suicide Squad movie.
EhMaybeSays
EhMaybeSays - 10/18/2014, 11:50 AM
Hopefully Ayer's success extends to Suicide Squad.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/18/2014, 11:50 AM
I guess it really was "Untold".

EhMaybeSays
EhMaybeSays - 10/18/2014, 12:02 PM
@DukeAcureds
Don't you mean it should have remained untold?
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 10/18/2014, 12:02 PM
After twilight ruined Vampires for everyone, this doesn't surprise me. Look like an entertaining yarn, though. Luke Evans really should be Dr. Strange. He has the gravitas required.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 10/18/2014, 12:07 PM
Isn't Hollywood tired of making WWII movies? I know it's run by Jews, but damn...
ALegendaryPanda
ALegendaryPanda - 10/18/2014, 12:08 PM
Looks like this Dracula story should have remained.... untold

Bekss
Bekss - 10/18/2014, 12:08 PM
Almost every movie of this kind of genre dropped around 60% in their second weekends this year.
Of course, their 1st weekends were bigger.
The movie was ok.
DefcoN
DefcoN - 10/18/2014, 12:12 PM
Too bad Fury will be released in January over here, I hope it's good.
Rocket38
Rocket38 - 10/18/2014, 12:23 PM
@DefcoN
I went to see it last night. It was fantastic. Easily one of the better movies to come out this year.
Bekss
Bekss - 10/18/2014, 12:28 PM
@0megaDaGod
DefcoN
DefcoN - 10/18/2014, 12:31 PM
@Rocket38 Thank you! I'm a sucker for WW2 movies and I've been expecting this one for quite some time.
monkey
monkey - 10/18/2014, 12:37 PM
It's like that old saying

Me Chinese
Me play joke
giannis
giannis - 10/18/2014, 1:12 PM
Dracula untold was a good pop corn movie. The ending left me anxious for the next installment in this monster shared universe.
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 10/18/2014, 4:34 PM
It may not be doing so great in the U.S. but it's down pretty decent worldwide
DoctorDoak
DoctorDoak - 10/18/2014, 5:02 PM
You'd think Hollywood would learn after Van Helsing and I, Dracula and shit that people don't wanna watch movies that are like this tonally.
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 10/18/2014, 7:55 PM
D R A C U L A

UNSOLD
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 10/18/2014, 8:20 PM
Fury does interest me.

I'll check it out.
Demongod20
Demongod20 - 10/18/2014, 10:09 PM
I only wish Dracula in Dracula untold was more the story of and evilish Villain (Vlad the Impaler) that becomes an Anti-Villain instead of Hero with a dark past who turns into an Anti-Hero.
novaprime
novaprime - 10/18/2014, 11:00 PM
Its sad bcuz this movie was Great! I was hoping to see Dracula in his evil monster days in the sequal! Iknow luke evans can pool it off!!
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 10/19/2014, 3:49 AM
What the [frick] is Universal doing? Seriously, a PG-13 Dracula movie to potentially launch a series of shared-universe horror movies?

The hilarious thing is, they did it because "PG-13 is where the money is"... Nope.

They could have been the biggest fish in the R-rated pond, but they instead decided to be just another disappointing flounder in an ocean of mediocrity.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/19/2014, 4:25 AM
^^
This.

Hollywood has been too obssesed with PG-13, recently. I honestly beleive that one of the reasons that TV is enjoying such a resurgence in esteem is that the shows do not talk down to audiences so much.
Some movies would actually benefit commercially from being R-rated. Horror movies such as this are obvious examples, but even things like TMNT would have benefited, not so much from being R-rated, but by being a film that adults could respectfully enjoy. Instead they went too much for the kiddie market and the kiddies didn't really give a shit as much as folks in their 30s who were from the generation that remembered the TMNT.
I've got two young nephews and GOTG was a hard sell. Their initial reaction was that it was too childish. Of course, they loved it once they'd seen it.
Kids don't want kiddie shit. When I was young I was all about the horror movies and the ultra-violent movies. I wouldn't have given Dracula Untold the time of day, back then at all. A horro movie with no balls is just a joke.
I also found it ironic that the Dracula film that Untold drew the most inspiration from was the Francis Ford Coppola one and that wasn't even a Universal picture. Vlad Tepes' armor was very much like the Mignola armor from that film and the whole thing about his princess falling to her death and this being the thing that turns him into Dracula only for her to be reincarnated into Mina is all from a Columbia movie. Maybe they thought that this was all in the book. They didn't read the book, did they?
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/19/2014, 4:30 AM
And this years RoboCop was probably the worst example. Bleeping out Samuel L. Jackson saying "Motherfvcker" in bloodless, PG-13 remake of RoboCop? That says it all.
newmutantsRETURNS
newmutantsRETURNS - 10/19/2014, 8:45 AM
^ rant over
gaikinger
gaikinger - 10/19/2014, 11:03 AM
After Van Helsing and I, Frankenstein you would think studios learned their lessons from toothless PG13 rated horror genre films but no. These will go directly to the $5 bin at Walmart where even there they will not be sold.Fury was awesome!
CyberA
CyberA - 10/19/2014, 11:38 AM

@galkinger: Van Helsing I actually liked - Never did see I, Frankenstein though... *shrug*/P :)

Pathogen
Pathogen - 10/19/2014, 4:31 PM
@DukeAcureds I agree, PG13 is garbage for movies like this. I was watching some retro action movies from back in the day and sure...a lot of them are corny, but the action and stuff is way better than the foo-foo stuff we're seeing now. Bloodless, obviously toned down and covered up by cgi garbage. bleh
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