Los Angeles: The animated monsters of Hotel Transylvania 2 scared up an estimated $47.5 million in their debut weekend, landing a solid lead at the top of the North American box office, industry estimates showed Sunday.
The sequel, featuring the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg and Selena Gomez and others, follows Dracula and his ghoulish pals as they attempt to bring out the monster side of the count's half-human grandson.
In the second position was The Intern, starring Robert De Niro as 70-year-old widower Ben, who goes to work at a fashion website, whose founder is played by Anne Hathaway. It earned $18.2 million in its opening weekend. (Also Read: Review: The Intern Proves Experience Doesn't Have to Start at the Top)
These two films pushed Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials into the third place after its stay at the top of the box office last week, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
The movie, the second in the series of Maze Runner films, is based on popular science-fiction novels and earned $14 million.
Adventure-thriller Everest, in which a group of climbers find themselves engulfed in a blinding blizzard on the side of the iconic mountain, rose to the fourth place in its second weekend with $13.1 million.
Meanwhile Black Mass, a biopic on an Irish-American mobster James Whitey Bulger, landed in the fifth place with $11.5 million.
Slipping to the sixth position was M Night Shyamalan's low-budget thriller The Visit, a movie about a trip to grandma's house gone awry, with $6.7 million.
The Perfect Guy, which is about a woman's tryst with a man, earned $4.8 million, finishing in the seventh position.
War Room, which centres on a struggling couple who finds help through prayer, earned some $4.3 million, landing in the eighth number.
Ninth with $3.5 million was gory cannibal flick The Green Inferno, a fictitious tale about idealistic university students who head to the Amazon to help a tribe whose lands are threatened, but instead they end up in jeopardy.
Rounding up the top ten was Sicario, a drug war thriller featuring Benicio Del Toro as a brooding and shadowy agent looking for revenge as he operates across the US-Mexico border, with $1.8 million.
The sequel, featuring the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg and Selena Gomez and others, follows Dracula and his ghoulish pals as they attempt to bring out the monster side of the count's half-human grandson.
In the second position was The Intern, starring Robert De Niro as 70-year-old widower Ben, who goes to work at a fashion website, whose founder is played by Anne Hathaway. It earned $18.2 million in its opening weekend. (Also Read: Review: The Intern Proves Experience Doesn't Have to Start at the Top)
The movie, the second in the series of Maze Runner films, is based on popular science-fiction novels and earned $14 million.
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Meanwhile Black Mass, a biopic on an Irish-American mobster James Whitey Bulger, landed in the fifth place with $11.5 million.
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The Perfect Guy, which is about a woman's tryst with a man, earned $4.8 million, finishing in the seventh position.
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Ninth with $3.5 million was gory cannibal flick The Green Inferno, a fictitious tale about idealistic university students who head to the Amazon to help a tribe whose lands are threatened, but instead they end up in jeopardy.
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