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No, you did not read wrong. "BOO! A Madea Halloween," which I did not know even existed until ... now, has taken the top spot at the weekend Box-Office ending October 23rd with a $27M intake. That's 4 Million more than "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" which still fared fairly well all things considering. The 2012 original "Reacher" opened up with a scant $15M opening, but built up a solid core of fans through home video, plus it will likely get high-grossing domestic receipts.
Take a look at "Keeping Up with the Joneses". Brutal. That's the second Galafianakis dud in less than a month, after "Masterminds" choked just a few weeks ago.
On the indie side "The Birth of a Nation" is all but done. Nate Parker's controversy has dimmed any hopes of not only box-office success, but any kind of Oscar hopes. The film has made only $14M in three weeks and gotten mixed reviews. Going in a completely different direction is Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight" which is the best reviewed movie of the year and got a per-screen average of 100K this weekend, playing in only four theatres total in LA and NY, but going wider in the next few weeks.
It’s now been 13 years since "The Grandmaster,” and it doesn’t sound like Wong Kar-wai will be making another film in the near future. His future seems to be on the small screen.