In his review of Pan, Mashable’s Josh Dickey said that Pan was “so bad, so resoundingly rotten in every way, that you should absolutely leave the house this weekend and pay good money to see it.”
Alas for the folks at Warner Bros., not many took that advice.
Instead, moviegoers—an estimated $37 million worth of them—flocked again to The Martian. Matt Damon’s interplanetary adventure took the weekend’s box office crown for the second straight week, bringing its total haul to $108.7 million. Granted, that’s probably just enough to buy a Mars-ready spacesuit and a roll of duct tape, but still.
Fitting for a sequel, Hotel Transylvania 2 spent a second straight week in second place. It collected about $20.3 million to seal off the weekend’s silver medal.
All that left Pan in a rather, um, panful place—third place, to be precise. The movie, which Warner Bros. spent an estimated $150 million to make, earned just $15.5 million during its first weekend. And given that most critics have (ahem) panned the CGI-soaked adventure (it’s registering just a 25% “freshness rating on rottentomatoes.com, though our own Bob Hoose was significantly kinder), it appears as though Pan will soon fall out of itself and into the fire.
The Intern checked into fourth place with an $8.7 million weekend, squeezing past Sicario’s $7.4 million. The latter movie settled for fifth.
Final figures update: 1. The Martian, $37 million; 2. Hotel Transylvania 2, $20.4 million; 3. Pan, $15.3 million; 4. The Intern, $8.7 million; 5. Sicario, $7.6 million.
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