'Inferno' brings the 'Da Vinci Code' series to a new box office low
Halloween weekend moviegoers were few in number, with estimates for the top two finishers combining for slightly more than $30 million between them.
Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween is the weekend's winner according to Sunday estimates, with $16.7 million earned domestically. That's an encouragingly low 41 percent drop in the week since the Lionsgate feature opened on Oct. 21.
The surprise of the weekend is Inferno, Tom Hanks' latest Robert Langdon movie, which sputters into the #2 spot with an estimated $15 million. It's no Halloween movie, sure, but Tom Hanks has been a bankable name for this successful-until-now series.
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The Da Vinci Code opened at $77 million in 2006, with Angels & Demons following in 2009 with a $46.2 million start. Moviegoing audiences seemingly aren't fired up anymore about the series adapted from Dan Brown's popular books.
Horror wasn't on moviegoers' minds either, possibly because Halloween falls on a Monday this year. There weren't any new horror releases and Boo! -- now in its second week -- is a horror/comedy, leaving fear-loving audiences few options to choose from.
It's not until the weekend's #5 spot -- after Jack Reacher: Never Go Back ($9.6 million) and The Accountant ($8.5 million) at #3 and #4, respectively -- that an actual horror movie pops up. Ouija: Origin of Evil drops by 50 percent since opening against Boo! last week, with an estimated $7.1 million at #5.
The Universal feature isn't a failure. Its cumulative box office of $24.6 million after two weeks is already more than double the reported $9 million budget. But it's also no Saw or Paranormal Activity.
Inferno is the real loser of the weekend, at least domestically. The Dan Brown adaptations are beloved overseas, and the latest is already up to $132.7 million -- well past its reported $75 million budget -- outside the United States.
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Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.
