On the one hand, “Jigsaw” got off to a slower start than all but two of the previous “Saw” films (“Saw” and “Saw VI”).<\/p>\n
On the other hand, it still convincingly ranked as Friday’s #1 film at the US box office.<\/p>\n
The first “Saw” film since 2010 had earned $7.2 million by the close of its first day. The count more than doubles that of the day’s #2 film.<\/p>\n
It puts “Saw” on track for an opening weekend tally in the $15-18 million range, which will be more than enough for a weekend victory.<\/p>\n
“Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween,” last weekend’s winner, was this Friday’s #2 film with $2.6 million. “Geostorm” took third place with $1.6 million, while “Happy Death Day” earned #4 with $1.5 million.<\/p>\n
Newcomer “Thank You For Your Service” drew a paltry $1.5 million; it was the day’s #5 film. It may only reach about #4 million by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n
The day even worse for new release “Suburbicon,” which managed just $1.1 million in its opening day. It narrowly trailed “Blade Runner 2049” (also $1.1 million) to rank as Friday’s #7 film.<\/p>\n
“Surburbicon” is on track for just $2.5-3.5 million in opening weekend receipts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Jigsaw” took first place at the Friday box office. The other big new releases started poorly.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[9828,9918,9879,9961,3138,9963,9962,9964],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n