Box Office Actuals: 'Ouija' Dips Below $20M, 'John Wick' Strong in Second

Box Office Actuals: ‘Ouija’ Dips Below $20M, ‘John Wick’ Strong in Second

October 27, 2014

By Brad Brevet

Well, looks like Universal couldn’t find a way to come up with $125,000 more for Ouija as the PG-13, board game adaptation could only manage $19.87 million this weekend, just a shade below the estimated $20 million from yesterday. Perhaps it has something to do with that “C” CinemaScore as that certainly doesn’t suggest very good word of mouth. Of course, with a budget said to be around $5 million it isn’t like there is much to worry about on a studio level… Good thing they didn’t go forward with that $100 million budgeted version they had back in 2012 when McG was attached to direct. Just what exactly was going to happen in that version anyway?

In second is the Keanu Reeves actioner John Wick, which was pegged early as a movie that would take in $8 million, but ultimately shattered those predictions, bringing in $14.41 million. No word on a budget for this one, though I’m assuming it wasn’t too high.

When it comes to holdovers, Fury took number one last weekend and it dropped 44% to $13.3 million and a domestic cume of $46.4 million. In fourth is the continued success of Gone Girl, dropping only 37% and bringing in $11 million as its cume is now up over $124 million.

Birdman‘s expansion brought in $1.37 million from 50 theaters ($27,593 per theater average) and the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour (read my review here) opened in five theaters where it made $125,000 for a $25,000 pert theater average. Laggies from Lynn Shelton also opened in five theaters, but wasn’t quite as big a hit, only bringing in $74,139.

When it comes to the Box Office Challenge, I’ve listed the current top ten from the points and accuracy leaderboards directly below and you can find the full leaderboard here. For the complete box office top ten and points awarded for this weekend specifically click here.