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Jason Bourne Tops Weekend with $60M; Star Trek Beyond Suffers Big Second Weekend Drop
by Brad Brevet
July 31, 2016


With the second largest opening for a film in the Bourne franchise, Jason Bourne topped the weekend box office as audiences came out in support of Matt Damon's return to the title role nine years after The Bourne Ultimatum.

STX's ensemble comedy Bad Moms delivered a third place finish and the fifth largest R-rated opening of the year while Lionsgate's Nerve fell a bit below expectations, finishing in eighth place for the weekend, which was down a fraction from last weekend, but up nearly 27% compared to last year.







With an estimated $60 million, Jason Bourne delivered the second largest domestic opening in the Bourne franchise behind only The Bourne Ultimatum, which opened with $69.2 million back in 2007.

Additionally, this debut is almost $22 million more than what The Bourne Legacy brought in back in 2012 when Universal attempted to keep the franchise alive with Jeremy Renner stepping in as the lead character.

While the domestic opening may be down, the 13.4% drop compared to Ultimatum is just a fraction off the average 2016 sequel performance, which now has films opening 14.4% below their predecessors (excluding My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2).







Squeaking into second place is last weekend's box office champion, Star Trek Beyond, with an estimated $24 million. While this does push the third installment in the new Star Trek franchise over $105 million, it represents a nearly 60% second weekend drop, a significant decline when compared to the last two films, both of which saw their domestic cumes climb over $146 million by the end of their second weekends.

Paramount has already announced a fourth Star Trek film is on the way, but it will be interesting to see if the budget climbs as high as the $185 million spent on Beyond or if they dial it back to make up for what appears to be a declining interest from the audience at large.







STX's Bad Moms brought in an estimated $23.4 million along with an "A" CinemaScore from opening day audiences.

As was to be expected, the Bad Moms audience was predominantly female (82%) with 48% of the film's overall audience coming in over the age of 34.







Lionsgate's Nerve, which dipped below expectations, bringing in an estimated $9 million over the three-day for a five-day total of $15 million after opening on Wednesday.

As we said on Thursday evening, this is a tough film to comp given the Wednesday opening and genre, but from a performance perspective it's playing somewhat similarly to 2015's Entourage, which brought in $17.6 million after its first five days of release and went on to gross just over $32 million.

Like Entourage, Nerve brought in an "A-" CinemaScore so look for something around $30 million to be the ceiling for this film's domestic run.







Lionsgate's expanded Woody Allen's Cafe Society into 565 theaters (+515) where it brought in an estimated $2.25 million for a $3,982 per theater average.

This is a much better performance than Allen's last two films — Irrational Man and Magic in the Moonlight — saw in their expanded releases. The possibility for further expansion, however, has not yet been made clear.







In limited release, Open Road's Gleason delivered an estimated $129,223 from nine theaters ($14,358 PTA) while IFC's The Land and Starz Digital's Miss Sharon Jones brought in an estimated $12,000 each.

Sony Classics' Equity opened with an estimated $80,729 from four theaters for a $20,182 per theater average and Roadside's Indignation, which opened with an estimated $89,072 from four theaters for a $22,268 per theater average.



The weekend's per theater champion, for the second weekend in a row, is The Film Arcade's Don't Think Twice, which brought in an estimated $261,523 from five theaters for a $30,084 per theater average.

Finally, The Legend of Tarzan and Now You See Me 2 both crossed $300 million worldwide this weekend becoming the sixteenth and seventeenth 2016 releases to do so.

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July 29-31, 2016 Weekend Studio Estimates:


1. Jason Bourne $60,000,000
2. Star Trek Beyond $24,000,000 / $105,720,378
3. Bad Moms $23,400,000
4. The Secret Life of Pets $18,210,000 / $296,177,745
5. Lights Out $10,810,000 / $42,877,032
6. Ice Age: Collision Course $10,500,000 / $42,109,623
7. Ghostbusters $9,800,000 / $106,171,471
8. Nerve $9,000,000 / $15,051,287
9. Finding Dory $4,220,000 / $469,012,930
10. The Legend of Tarzan $2,405,000 / $121,856,210