What happened to Amy Dunne? I don’t know, since I haven’t seen Gone Girl. But wherever she is, this cinematic girl keeps collecting fistfuls of cash.
A goodish vampire and a very bad day couldn’t slow the roll of Gone Girl. The R-rated mystery thriller earned another estimated $26.8 million to repeat as the box office’s top performer. The flick lost less than 30% of its audience while adding 270 new theaters: Sure, the girl may be gone, but the movie’s here to stay for a while.
Dracula Untold—an, ahem, revamping of Vlad the Impaler’s endlessly flexible legend—may have finished second to Gone Girl. But it still bit the box office for a juicy $23.5 million, flapping to roost in second place. And despite its name, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day didn’t have a terrible, horrible, (etc.) weekend—just a fairly mediocre one. The Disney movie collected $19.1 million for third place. On the other hand, it may have won some sort of honorary award for having one of the longest names in movie history.
Fright-flick Annabelle used its creepy plastic arms to crawl into fourth place and $16.4 million. It topped the star wattage of The Judge (headlined by Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall), which landed in fifth with $13.3 million.
Final figures update: 1. Gone Girl, $26.4 million; 2. Dracula Untold, $23.5 million; 3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, $18.4 million; 4. Annabelle, $15.9 million; 5. The Judge, $13.1 million.
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