“Sully” is number one at the North America box offices for the second straight week, but Hollywood is going through a “slow” fall movie season, an industry analyst said Sunday.
Director Clint Eastwood’s dramatization of the landing of an airliner in the Hudson River will sell an estimated $22 million this weekend, bringing its 10-day estimated total to just over $70 million, according to studio projections.
“Blair Witch” debuted in second place with a languid $9.7 million in sales. It is the second follow-up movie to 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project,” which rocketed out of nowhere to sell about $140 million in tickets.
Rounding out the 10 most-popular movies this week, as estimated by the studios, were “Bridget Jones’s Baby” ($8.2 million), “Snowden” (opening with $8 million), “Don’t Breathe” ($5.6 million), “When the Bough Breaks” ($5.5 million), “Suicide Squad” ($4.7 million), “Hillsong – Let Hope Rise” (opening at $1.3 million), “Kubo And The Two Strings” ($2.5 million) and “Pete’s Dragon” ($2 million).
–City News Service