Box office top 20: Bad reviews extinguish 'Inferno'
Box office top 20:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terrible reviews and a seven-year gap since the previous installment helped extinguish Inferno, the third film in the Da Vinci Code franchise, at the North American box office.
The film, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard, flopped with $14.9 million domestically, according to final box office figures Monday.
The unexpected swoon for "Inferno" allowed Tyler Perry's "Boo! A Madea Halloween" to lead the box office for the second straight week.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:
Never Go Back, Paramount, $9,640,747, 3,780 locations, $2,550 average, $39,769,924, 2 weeks.
Origin Of Evil, Universal, $7,110,185, 3,168 locations, $2,244 average, $24,678,810, 2 weeks.
"A Man Called Ove," Music Box Films, $365,314, 150 locations, $2,435 average, $1,296,021, 5 weeks.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC