'Ouija spooks N. American box office competition
October 27, 2014
The supernatural horror flick, about a group of friends who awaken an ancient spirit with a Ouija board, a game where players attempt to talk with ghosts, earned $20 million in its opening weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Another new release, action movie "John Wick," blasted into second place, pushing Brad Pitt´s latest war movie "Fury" down to third.
Starring Keanu Reeves as an ex-hitman who returns from retirement to take revenge on gangsters who attacked him, "John Wick" raked in $14.2 million in ticket sales
"Fury," a gory World War II film that has already been turned into a video game, fell from first place.
It earned $13 million, putting its two-week total at just over $46 million. "Gone Girl," starring Ben Affleck as a husband accused of murdering his wife (Rosamund Pike), was just behind with $11.1 million, good enough for fourth place, putting its four-week haul at $124 million.
Animated comedy "The Book of Life," featuring the voices of Mexican star Diego Luna, as well as Hollywood´s Zoe Saldana and Channing Tatum, was in fifth, with $9.8 million in box office sales.
Meanwhile, "St. Vincent," a comedy starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts, jumped into sixth place in its first weekend in wide release.
The film, about a young boy who befriends the crusty war veteran living next door, earned $8.1 million.
Disney´s "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" -- based on a children´s book of the same name and starring Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner -- came in seventh place at just over $7 million.
Romance "The Best of Me," starring James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan as high school sweethearts who reunite in their hometown, debuted in fifth place, earning just over $4.7 million.
Robert Downey Jr´s much-anticipated "The Judge," co-starring 83-year-old Robert Duvall, fell to ninth place, with $4.35 million, putting its three-week take at a disappointing $34.4 million.
And rounding out the top ten, action-horror film "Dracula Untold" -- depicting the vampire as a flawed hero in a tragic love tale -- was a whisker behind, at $4.3 million.
