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PEOPLE & ARTS A29
Monday 26 October 2015
Weekend Box Office:
‘Jem,’ ‘Kasbah,’ ‘Witch Hunter’ tank, ‘Steve Jobs’ fizzles
LINDSEY BAHR to find consistent success This photo provided by Open Road Films shows Bill Murray as Richie Lanz in “Rock the Kasbah.”
AP Film Writer outside of the “Fast & Furi- (Kerry Brown/Open Road Films via AP)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was ous” franchise.
a truly outrageous week- None of the weekend’s 90 percent range). produce. It’s one of Mur- new client in Afghanistan.
end at the box office, and flops will garner as much Bill Murray’s “Rock the Kas- ray’s worst debuts ever Poor reviews might have
not in a good way. attention as “Jem and the bah” barely did better in and a low point for Open sunk “Witch Hunter,” ‘’Jem”
The pack of new releases Holograms,” though, which ticket sales, pulling in only Road Films. Critics were not and “Kasbah,” but good
proved to be all out duds, opened to $1.3 million to $1.5 million from 2,012 the- fans of the Barry Levinson- reviews couldn’t propel
some worse than others, become one of the worst aters, but it also cost three directed comedy about a Danny Boyle’s “Steve Jobs”
leaving room for holdovers debuts of all time for a ma- times as much as “Jem” to rock manager who finds a to flashy heights. q
“The Martian” and “Goose- jor studio movie opening in
bumps” to stay in the top over 2,000 locations. Based
spots with $15.9 and $15.5 on the 1980s animated se-
million, respectively ac- ries, the film opened on
cording to Rentrak esti- 2,413 screens, averaging
mates Sunday. The Steven $545 per screen, to take
Spielberg/Tom Hanks Cold 15th place.
War thriller “Bridge of Spies” The wide release numbers
also held nicely in third are alarming, but it is worth
place with $11 million. noting that Universal pro-
Vin Diesel’s “The Last Witch duced the PG-rated “Jem”
Hunter” tanked with $10.8 for only $5 million. Over-
million, killing any hopes of all, teens did not seem all
a new franchise. The Lion- that interested in a movie
sgate film opened in fourth based on a show that was
place and cost a reported popular decades before
$70 million to produce. This they were born. Audiences
is the latest disappointment that did turn out were over-
for Diesel who can’t seem whelmingly female (in the
