Earning an estimated $21.7 million, Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween won the weekend box office with easy, besting the next film by over $8 million. It’s not too surprising at how well the film did as this is the creator’s films tend to open with over $20 million and this is the seventh of eight to do so. It’s unknown how well this film will do as it opened in the middle of the pack for the director’s films. All together, the director’s films have earned almost $1 billion collectively.

In second place was the $120 million budgeted Geostorm which brought in just $13.3 million in its debut weekend. At the foreign box office the film has earned $49.6 million. With poor reviews from both audiences and critics, the movie will need to rely on the foreign box office to make up ground. It opens in China next weekend followed by France and Italy on November 1. The movie’s life hangs in the balance and will likely be decided by the Chinese box office.

Happy Death Day dropped to third place with a 64% drop from its debut weekend. The movie earned an estimated $9.4 million to bring its domestic total to $40.6 million. The film has also earned $12.9 million at the foreign box office for a worldwide total of $53.6 million on a $4.8 million budget.

Blade Runner 2049 came in fourth place adding in $7.2 million to its domestic run to bring it to $74 million. Worldwide the film has earned $194.1 million on a $150 million budget. Adjusting for inflation, domestically the film is about $9 million behind the 1982 original. It debuts in China and Japan next weekend where I expect it to do quite well.

Wrapping up the top five was another new film Only the Brave which opened with an estimated $6 million on a $38 million budget. This was despite positive reviews and an “A” CinemaScore.

Another big opener, The Snowman, opened at #8 with just $3.4 million. Bad reviews all around probably have killed this film.

This past weekend was a week one earning $30 million less than the same weekend last year. October is down about 13% compared to last year.

In comic adaptation news….

Kingsman: The Golden Circle added $3 million to its total to come in at #10 and bringing its domestic total to $94.6 million and $344.8 million worldwide. The film opened in China with $40.3 million an improvement over the original film. The first film brought in about $75 million from the market overall. The sequel lags the first film by about $70 million worldwide but doesn’t open in Japan until January 5. The first film brought in $7.5 million there.

We’ll have a more detailed look at this year’s comic movie releases in an hour.