Hotel Transylvania 2 dominated this weekend's box office by earning around $47.5 million, beating out its predecessor's $42.5 record.
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the movie features the voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez and Andy Samber, and has been granted an A-Cinema Score. Tartakovsky is the creator of cartoon hits Samurai Jack, Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory and Sym-Bionic Titan.
Hotel Transylvania 2 garnered the biggest ever September opening, as well as Sony Animation's highest opening ever. It could also end up being Sandler's top grossing movie opening of all time, now only $100,000 shy of The Longest Yard, the movie that currently holds the highest record, which opened to $47.6 million in 2005.
Following the lead of Hotel Transylvania 2 are The Intern, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Everest and Black Mass.
The Intern, which also received an A-CinemaScore, stars Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. The film made a strong entrée, though not quite as solid as Hotel Transylvania 2, earning $18.2 million. This film targets a primarily older female audience.
Baltasar Kormákur's adventure movie, Everest, fell a bit short of expectations. It was opened on IMAX and premium large-format screens, but earned only $7.2 million, as opposed to the expected $15 to $17 million. Its gross earning is estimated to be at $23.1 million, less than half of what Hotel Transylvania 2 bagged on its opening weekend.
The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and Black Mass completes this week's top five. The Scorch Trials fell 54 percent during its second weekend, totaling to $51.7 million. Black Mass earned $11.5 for its second weekend, with a domestic total of $42.6 million.
This weekend also marked Eli Roth's first direction feature comeback since eight years ago. The Green Inferno made $3.5 million during its wide release this weekend.
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