Oct. 6: Gone Girl scares off Annabelle in weekend box office
Posted Oct 6, 2014 08:14:04 AM.
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Ben Affleck’s new mystery drama Gone Girl debuts in top spot, but the horror prequel Annabelle shows up close behind. Film critic Leslie James takes a look at the weekend box office.
Oct. 3-5, 2014 estimated weekend grosses (Data courtesy of: Rentrak Corporation):
| Movie | This week | Last week | Weekend gross | Cumulative gross | Weeks in release |
| Gone Girl | 1 | – | $38,000,000 | $38,000,000 | 1 |
| Annabelle | 2 | – | $37,200,000 | $37,200,000 | 1 |
| The Equalizer | 3 | 1 | $19,000,000 | $64,486,617 | 2 |
| The Boxtrolls | 4 | 3 | $12,435,000 | $32,539,208 | 2 |
| The Maze Runner | 5 | 2 | $12,000,000 | $73,921,395 | 3 |