Did Netflix’s Stranger Things beat the weekend box office? That’s a theory for the down earnings. Which saw one of the worst weekends of the year and $18 million less than last year.

Lionsgate‘s Jigsaw won the weekend earning an estimated $16.25 million. The film is the latest in the Saw franchise. The film has just a $10 million budget so the debut was good but the franchise isn’t debuting with the strength it once had. Internationally the film earned $9.5 million from 46 markets. It still has to debut in Italy, France, Belgium, Australia, and South Korea.

The film had a “B” CinemaScore and was 51% female audience and 52% under the age of 25. Expect the film to drop quickly as far as dollars in but it’ll be a success for Lionsgate.

Lionsgate also had the number two spot with Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween which earned an estimated $10 million. The film has earned $35.5 million domestically on a $25 million budget. The first film had earned $52.5 million at the same point in its run.

Geostorm was in third place and earned an estimated $5.7 million with a domestic total of $23.5 million. The film has also earned $113.4 million at the foreign box office for a total of $137 million from a $120 million budget.

In fourth place was Happy Death Day with an estimated $5.1 million. The film has earned $68.6 million worldwide on a $4.8 million budget. Comic writer Scott Lobdell who penned this film should be very happy with these results.

Rounding out the top five was Blade Runner 2049 which earned an estimated $4 million to bring its domestic total to $81.4 million and $223.4 million worldwide on a $150 million budget. The film debuted in China and didn’t receive the boost it hoped earning just $7.6 million. The film also debuted at #1 in Japan with an estimated $2.7 million.

Thank You For Your Service opened at #6 with an estimated $3.7 million, Suburbicon opened at #9 with a disappointing $2.8 million from 2,046 theaters and Let there be Light debuted at #11 with an impressive $1.9 million from 373 theaters.

The big news though is the debut of Thor: Ragnarok which opened in 36 international markets with $107.6 million. That opening is 4% above Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and 22% above Doctor Strange. The film opens in North American theaters this coming week as well as Germany, Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, Austria, and more (almost 100% of the global marketplace).

In other comic adaptations….

Kingsman: The Golden Circle came in at #14 adding $1.6 million to its total.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year’s comic adaptations!