Denzel Washington continued to prove his box office worth with the release of The Magnificent Seven over the weekend. The film opened at number one with a gross of $35 million. It grossed just a bit more than the last Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington collaboration, The Equalizer ($34.1 million) from 2014. The film has a fresh rating of 63% on Rotten Tomatoes & scored an A- opening night from Cinemascore so this one might have the legs necessary to recoup its $90 million budget.
The other new release from the weekend came in second and opened below expectations. Storks opened to $21.8 million well below previous September animated offerings like Hotel Transylvania ($42.5 million) and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ($30.3 million). The film carries a $70 million budget and will need to see some great legs and international support in order to see a profit.
Check out the rest of the top ten box office results below!
September 23-25
- The Magnificent Seven – $35 million
- Storks – $21.8 million
- Sully – $13.8 million
- Bridget Jones’s Baby – $4.5 million
- Snowden – $4.1 million
- Blair Witch – $3.9 million
- Don’t Breathe – $3.8 million
- Suicide Squad– $3.1 million
- When the Bough Breaks – $2.5 million
- Kubo and the Two Strings – $1.1 million
