24th '007' film tops North American box office
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| Poster of "Specter," the 24th James Bond movie produced by Eon Productions. [File photo] |
![Poster of 'Specter,' the 24th James Bond movie produced by Eon Productions. [File photo]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20151109/b8aeed99045617aa7d2e17.jpg "Poster of 'Specter,' the 24th James Bond movie produced by Eon Productions. [File photo]")
James Bond beat Snoopy in their box office duel this weekend, as a duo of reworkings from popular, 60-year-old franchises finished 1-2 at the North American ticket windows.
"Specter" -- the 24th James Bond movie produced by Eon Productions -- opened with estimated US$73 million in sales this weekend, according to projections from Sony Pictures.
The Bond thriller had opened last weekend in the United Kingdom, and it was on track to be the second-highest Bond movie ever, in terms of opening records.
Compared to the most recent opening weekend performances of the James Bond franchise, "Specter" opened 17 percent below the US$88.4 million start of 2012's "Skyfall" and 8 percent ahead of the US$67.5 million opening of 2008's "Quantum of Solace", according to box office tracker Rentrak.
"Specter" received a healthy "A- "rating from first-night moviegoers on CinemaScore. The critics gave it a 63-percent positive rate for watching the film.
In second place, "The Peanuts Movie" was on track for US$45 million in opening weekend sales, Fox reported.
"The Peanuts Movie" started out with US$12.1 million on Friday, increased a promising 62 percent on Saturday to gross US$19.6 million and is estimated to slide 32 percent on Sunday to take in US$13.3 million.
"The Peanuts Movie" received a strong "A" rating from audience on CinemaScor and a good 86 percent approval rate from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Third place was held down by "The Martian," which had a US$9.3 million weekend and has grossed US$197.1 million over six weeks. It places the film 18 percent ahead of the US$166.8 million "Interstellar" grossed after 38 days of wide release and 15 percent behind the US$231.3 million 38-day take of 2013's "Gravity."
Rounding out the 10 most-popular movies this week also included "Goosebumps" (US$7 million), "Bridge Of Spies" (US$6 million), "Hotel Transylvania 2" (US$3.6 million), "Burnt" (US$3 million), "The Last Witch Hunter" (US$2.7 million), "The Intern" (US$1.8 million) and "Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension" (US$1.7 million).
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