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Monday 28 September 2015
At The Movies:
‘Hotel Transylvania 2’ bites off September record
LINDSEY BAHR office tracker Rentrak, not- its second weekend in
AP Film Writer ed that the film capitalized
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sep- on early excitement for theaters with $14 million
tember has a new box of- Halloween. It’s also serv-
fice star in “Hotel Transyl- ing an audience eager for — a 54 percent drop from
vania 2.” The PG-rated ani- more family friendly ani-
mated pic earned a robust mated content. its opening. The film has
$47.5 million in its debut “This year hasn’t been
weekend, making it the oversaturated with fam- brought in $51.7 million to
top September opener of ily animated films, it seems
all time, according to Ren- like virtually all have done date.
trak estimates Sunday. well,” he said.
The previous record holder The film, which cost around “Everest,” meanwhile,
was “Hotel Transylvania” $80 million to make, fea-
which opened to $42.5 mil- tures the voices of Adam landed in fourth place with
lion in 2012. Sandler, Mel Brooks, Selena
“It really is something the Gomez and Kevin James only $13.1 million after ex-
whole family can agree to and is the only animated
see. There are laughs for feature on the market un- panding nationwide. The
adults, kids, and teenag- til “Peanuts” opens in No-
ers as well,” said Rory Bruer, vember. fact-based adventure film
president of worldwide dis- “The Intern,” a PG-13 rated
tribution for Sony. workplace comedy star- opened only on IMAX and
According to the studio, ring Anne Hathaway and
an estimated 59 percent Robert De Niro, took sec- Blobby, clockwise from foreground left, Griffin the Invisible premium large format 3D
of audiences were female ond with a solid $18.2 mil- Man, voiced by David Spade, Wayne, voiced by Steve
and 60 percent were un- lion. Buscemi, Dracula, voiced by Adam Sandler, Frank, voiced by screens last weekend.
der the age of 25. Audiences for the Nancy Kevin James and Murray, voiced by Keegan-Micheal Key,
Paul Dergarabedian, a Se- Meyers written and direct- appear in a scene from in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures “It’s very difficult to know
nior Media Analyst for box ed film were 62 percent Animation’s “Hotel Transylvania 2.”
where a film is going to
(Sony Pictures Animation via AP)
land when there’s no good
comp for it. Based on the
releasing pattern we had
women and 88 percent and thinks ‘this is a movie for the movie, we’re kind
over the age of 25. Signifi- I want to see,’” said Jeff
cantly, 55 percent were Goldstein, an executive of blazing a new trail. You
over 50-years-old — an au- vice president at Warner
dience that doesn’t typi- Bros., of the veteran film- can call it an experiment if
cally rush out to see films maker known for films like
on opening weekend. “It’s Complicated.” you will,” said Nick Carpou,
“Nancy Meyers is her own “Here we have a real hit,”
brand and I think that au- he said. who heads Universal’s do-
tomatically accesses an “Maze Runner: The Scorch
audience who looks at it Trials” took third place in mestic distribution. “When
you add the two week-
ends together and the
mid-weeks in between, sit-
ting here at $23 million feels
really good.”q
