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Happy Death Day has soared straight to the top of the US box office in its opening weekend, knocking Ryan Gosling’s Blade Runner reboot Blade Runner 2049 into second place.

Comedy-horror Happy Death Day has enjoyed plenty of Halloween success in the run-up to fright night, making $26.5 million across its debut – not bad, considering it had a budget of just $4.5 million.

Blade Runner 2049 slipped to the second spot this week, making $15.1 million. Despite garnering critical success, the sequel to the 1982 cult hit has flopped at the box office, making a gross of just over $60.5 in its two weeks in cinemas, despite having a massive budget of more than $150 million.

In third place this week, The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan made $12.84 million, while the adaptation of Stephen King’s It slipped further, earning $6.05 million and coming in at number four at the box office.

Rounding out the top five, Kate Winslet and Idris Elba’s The Mountain Between Us made $5.65 million and slipped from second to fifth place.

Check out the Oct. 13-15 figures below:

1. Happy Death Day — $26.5 million
2. Blade Runner 2049 — $15.1 million
3. The Foreigner — $12.8 million
4. It — $6.1 million
5. The Mountain Between Us — $5.7 million
6. American Made — $5.4 million
7. Kingsman: The Golden Circle — $5.3 million
8. The Lego Ninjago Movie — $4.3 million
9. My Little Pony: The Movie — $4 million
10. Victoria and Abdul— $3.1 million

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The Blade Runner reboot, Blade Runner 2049, has had a disappointing debut weekend at the US box office – earning $31,525,000, just a fifth of its massive budget of more than $150 million.

The movie, which stars Blade Runner original Harrison Ford alongside Ryan Gosling, made just $13 million in cinemas across the US on Friday (October 6) when it opened.

Considering the Ridley Scott sequel got rave reviews the disappointing return at the box office comes as a bit of a surprise.

The comparative flop still put Blade Runner 2049 at the top of the US box office, ahead of fellow new release The Mountain Between Us, starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet, which earned $10.1 million this weekend – all according to BoxOfficeMojo.

The adaptation of Stephen King’s It dropped to third place in its fifth week, making $9.655 million. The film became the highest grossing horror movie in US cinematic history after breaking box office records in its opening weekend. Meanwhile, children’s new release My Little Pony: The Movie made $8.8 million, putting it at number four in the box office.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle, slipped down to fifth place this week, making $8.1 million.

Check out the Oct. 6- 8 figures below:

1. Blade Runner 2049 — $31.5 million
2. The Mountain Between Us — $10.1 million
3. It — $9.7 million
4. My Little Pony: The Movie — $8.8 million
5. Kingsman: The Golden Circle — $8.1 million
6. American Made — $8 million
7. The Lego Ninjago Movie — $6.8 million
8. Victoria and Abdul — $4.1 million
9. Flatliners — $3.8 million
10. Battle of the Sexes— $2.4 million

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Creepy clown horror IT has clambered back to the top of the US box office again, after being kicked off last week by Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

The Stephen King adaptation, which stars Bill Skarsgard as terrifying clown Pennywise, is now the highest-grossing US horror movie ever, and added another $17,310,000 this weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.

Tom Cruise’s American Made is a new entry at number two, taking $17,016,000 and Kingsman: The Golden Circle drops to number three with $17,000,000.

The Golden Circle follows Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and his fellow spies, the Kingsmen, as they team up with their American counterparts, the Statesmen, to try to save the world from the evil Poppy (Julianne Moore).

The action-comedy sequel also stars Colin Firth, Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, Mark Strong, Jeff Bridges, Poppy Delevingne and Elton John.

The LEGO Ninjago Movie drops one spot to four, earning $12,000,000 over the weekend.

Check out the Sept. 29-Oct. 1 figures below:

1. It — $17.3 million
2. American Made — $17.016 million
3. Kingsman: The Golden Circle — $17 million
4. The Lego Ninjago Movie — $12 million
5. Flatliners — $6.7 million
6. Battle of the Sexes — $3.4 million
7. American Assassin — $3.3 million
8. Home Again — $1.8 million
9. Til Death Do Us Part — $1.5 million
10. mother! — $1.46 million

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle has shot to the top of the US box office on its first week of release.

Box Office Mojo reports that the spy sequel has pushed horror IT into second place, having made $39,000,000 over the weekend.

The Golden Circle follows Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and his fellow spies, the Kingsmen, as they team up with their American counterparts, the Statesmen, to try to save the world from evil Poppy (Julianne Moore).

The action-comedy also stars Colin Firth, Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, Mark Strong, Jeff Bridges, Poppy Delevingne and Elton John.

Although the film’s clearly super popular with viewers, it has come under fire for its portrayal of a particular sex scene.

IT continues to pull its weight, earning $30,000,000 this weekend. The Stephen King adaptation, which stars Bill Skarsgard as creepy clown Pennywise, is now the highest-grossing US horror movie ever.

Another new entry, The LEGO Ninjago Movie, is at number three after grossing $21,245,000 over the weekend.

The animation, which follows a young ninja who struggles to accept the truth about his father, features the voices of Dave Franco, Justin Theroux, Olivia Munn and Jackie Chan.

Falling two places in the chart is American Assassin, which is at number four after making $6,250,000.

The film stars Dylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton and follows a young CIA black ops recruit who helps a Cold War veteran try to stop the launching of a nuclear weapon in the Middle East.

The top five is rounded out by Home Again, which falls one place after earning $3,311,821.

The comedy stars Reese Witherspoon as a single mum whose life is changed when she lets three young men move in with her.

Check out the Sept. 22-24 figures below:

1. Kingsman: The Golden Circle — $39 million
2. It — $30 million
3. The Lego Ninjago Movie — $21.2 million
4. American Assassin — $6.3 million
5. Home Again — $3.3 million
6. mother! — $3.3 million
7. Friend Request — $2.4 million
8. The Hitman’s Bodyguard — $1.9 million
9. Stronger — $1.7 million
10. Wind River — $1.3 million

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It has still got it. Warner Bros. and New Line’s big-screen adaptation of the Stephen King horror novel is on track to gross an estimated $60 million in the U.S. and Canada this weekend, topping the box office for a second time. On the flip side, Darren Aronofsky and Jennifer Lawrence’s psychological thriller mother! is stumbling with an estimated a $7.5 million debut.

After a record-breaking bow last week, It declined just 51 percent, bringing its domestic total to an estimated $218.7 million after just 10 days in theaters. The movie is now the highest-grossing September release ever, eclipsing the $174.8 pulled in by Crocodile Dundee in 1984. It is also set to add another $60.3 million overseas, which would put its worldwide tally at $371.3 million.

Andy Muschietti (Mama) directed It, which stars Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chosen Jacobs, Wyatt Oleff, and Jeremy Ray Taylor as a group of unpopular kids in small-town Maine who battle an evil presence that feeds on its young victims’ greatest fears. Bill Skarsgard portrays the malevolent being in its favored form, a demonic clown named Pennywise.

Fortunes are looking less favorable for mother!, which is on pace to come in well below industry projections of about $11 million. That puts it in third place for the weekend and resets the bar as the lowest nationwide release of Lawrence’s career (displacing The House at the End of the Street and its $12.3 million five years ago).

Despite having a name director in Aronofsky and a star-studded cast — including Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer — mother! was largely rejected by audiences. They hit it with an F CinemaScore, putting it in rare company and likely hobbling word-of-mouth prospects. Critics’ reviews were not as dire but still somewhat mixed.

The film, which Aronofsky also wrote, stars Lawrence as a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband, a creatively blocked poet (Bardem), is upended by the arrival of an enigmatic couple.

Sliding between It and mother! at the No. 2 spot is another R-rated film, American Assassin. The new release, which marks Dylan O’Brien’s first time back on the big screen since his serious injury on the set of Maze Runner: The Death Cure last year, will gross about $14.8 million this weekend. It’s a solid bow for the action-thriller, about equal to that of the original John Wick (which just got a second sequel).

Directed by Michael Cuesta (Kill The Messenger), American Assassin stars O’Brien as a CIA black-ops recruit under the tutelage of a Cold War veteran (Michael Keaton). Critics were unimpressed by the film, but audiences gave it a respectable B-plus CinemaScore.

Rounding out the top five are the Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy Home Again, with an estimated $5.3 million, and the Ryan Reynolds-Samuel L. Jackson action-comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which an estimated $3.6 million.

According to ComScore, overall box office is down 4.9 percent year-to-date. Check out the Sept. 15-17 figures below:

1. It — $60 million
2. American Assassin — $14.8 million
3. mother! — $7.5 million
4. Home Again — $5.3 million
5. The Hitman’s Bodyguard — $3.6 million
6. Annabelle: Creation — $2.6 million
7. Wind River — $2.5 million
8. Leap! — $2.1 million
9. Spider-Man: Homecoming — $1.9 million
10. Logan Lucky — $1.3 million

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