Ridley Scott's "The Martian" rocks weekend box office with $55MOctober 5, 2015 - 11:13 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Ridley Scott's astronaut movie "The Martian" rocked this weekend's box office, launching to an estimated $55 million from 3,831 theaters. The Matt Damon-starrer almost defeated "Gravity" to nab the biggest October opening of all time, AceShowbiz reports. Although "The Martian" now has the second-biggest October opening of all time, there's still a chance that when final numbers come, it can top the record holder, "Gravity", which opened to $55.8 million in 2013. "Science is at the heart of 'The Martian' and is presented in a very accessible way," said Fox distribution chief Chris Aronson. "This movie has the potential to get people excited about our space program again." Last weekend's champion, "Hotel Transylvania 2", was down 32 percent, earning approximately $33 million for a domestic total of $90.5 million. The Dracula animated movie still shone, placing number two in the chart. This weekend's other new wide release, "Sicario", brought in around $12 million as it expanded from 59 to 2,620 theaters. The R-rated drug cartel action movie secured the third place, coming behind "The Martian" and "Hotel Transylvania 2". Nancy Meyers' comedy movie, "The Intern", added another $11.6 million for a domestic total of $36.5 million in its second weekend. Meanwhile, the latest installment of "The Maze Runner" movie series, "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials", rounded out the top five with approximately $7.6 million for a domestic cume of $63.2 million. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |