Sully, Hanks land safely at No. 1

LOS ANGELES -- Sully, the tale of hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who successfully landed an Airbus 320 in the Hudson River in 2009, helped Warner Bros. reach great heights at the box office and left two Columbia films, new release When the Bough Breaks and two-time box office champ Don't Breathe, in its wake.

Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks as Capt. Sullenberger, the film scored $35 million through Sunday.

The film appeared to benefit from its star power, with data firm comScore reporting that 39 percent of surveyed audience members attended the film because of Hanks and 20 percent because of Eastwood.

Those same audiences seem to have left the theater happy, with polling firm Cinemascore reporting moviegoers giving the film an A and 84 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics reviewing the film positively.

But the best days at the box office may be yet to come for Sully, thanks to its appeal to older audiences.

That's good news for a film where 80 percent of the audience was over the age of 35, according to Warner Bros.

Opening in second place with $14.2 million was When the Bough Breaks, a thriller centered on an infertile couple and their surrogate.

Starring Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall and Jaz Sinclair, the film underperformed -- original estimates predicted a $20 million opening.

Don't Breathe was finally dislodged from the top spot at the box office, where it spent its first two weeks of release. The horror-thriller landed in third place with an estimated $8.3 million, bringing its domestic numbers to about $67 million, an impressive haul for a film with a $9.9 million production budget.

Warner Bros.' Suicide Squad landed in fourth place, bringing in an estimated $5.7 million in its sixth week of release. The North American total for the superhero saga is $307.5 million.

After a summer full of the adventures of talking animals with Finding Dory, The Secret Life of Pets, to say nothing of The Jungle Book, Lionsgate's animated The Wild Life, depicting the story of Robinson Crusoe with talking animals, scored a disappointing $3.34 million in its opening weekend to round out the top 5 at the box office.

Kubo and the Two Strings, from Focus Features and Laika Animation Studios, earned an estimated $3.3 million and sixth place.

Disney's remake of Pete's Dragon landed in seventh place, bringing in $3.1 million, a number that takes the film to over $100 million worldwide.

STX Entertainment's Bad Moms fell to eighth, but still earned $2.6 million, raising the film's domestic earnings to more than $107 million.

Lionsgate's modern Western Hell or High Water, starring Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges, brought in $2.5 million for ninth place.

Columbia's Sausage Party rounded out the top 10, bringing in $2.3 million and raising its domestic take to $93.2 million.

Another notable release from the weekend includes Relativity's horror film The Disappointments Room, starring Kate Beckinsale, which brought in an estimated $1.4 million.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:

  1. Sully, Warner Bros., $35,028,301, 3,525 locations, $9,937 average, $35,028,301, one week.

  2. When the Bough Breaks, Columbia, $14,202,323, 2,246 locations, $6,323 average, $14,202,323, one week.

  3. Don't Breathe, Columbia, $8,250,225, 3,384 locations, $2,438 average, $66,873,383, three weeks.

  4. Suicide Squad, Warner Bros., $5,723,038, 3,103 locations, $1,844 average, $307,480,891, six weeks.

  5. The Wild Life, Lionsgate, $3,342,697, 2,493 locations, $1,341 average, $3,342,697, one week.

  6. Kubo and the Two Strings, Focus Features, $3,301,748, 2,335 locations, $1,414 average, $40,919,428, four weeks.

  7. Pete's Dragon, Disney, $3,101,390, 2,685 locations, $1,155 average, $70,150,043, five weeks.

  8. Bad Moms, STX Entertainment, $2,593,665, 1,888 locations, $1,374 average, $107,289,931, seven weeks.

  9. Hell or High Water, Lionsgate, $2,461,321, 1,445 locations, $1,703 average, $19,685,055, five weeks.

  10. Sausage Party, Columbia, $2,342,003, 2,071 locations, $1,131 average, $93,224,582, five weeks.

  11. No Manches Frida, Lionsgate, $2,113,497, 465 locations, $4,545 average, $7,332,279, two weeks.

  12. War Dogs, Warner Bros., $2,027,498, 1,781 locations, $1,138 average, $39,802,216, four weeks.

  13. The Light Between Oceans, Disney, $1,849,477, 1,500 locations, $1,233 average, $9,460,503, two weeks.

  14. Jason Bourne, Universal, $1,746,625, 1,510 locations, $1,157 average, $158,727,915, seven weeks.

  15. Mechanic: Resurrection, Lionsgate, $1,714,690, 1,901 locations, $902 average, $18,660,951, three weeks.

  16. The Secret Life of Pets, Universal, $1,542,755, 1,410 locations, $1,094 average, $361,840,530, 10 weeks.

  17. The Disappointments Room, Relativity Media, $1,402,823, 1,554 locations, $903 average, $1,402,823, one week.

  18. Star Trek Beyond, Paramount, $932,417, 748 locations, $1,247 average, $156,578,044, eight weeks.

  19. Florence Foster Jenkins, Paramount, $853,653, 1,062 locations, $804 average, $25,723,456, five weeks.

  20. Baar Baar Dekho, Eros Entertainment, $612,363, 146 locations, $4,194 average, $612,363, one week.

MovieStyle on 09/16/2016

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