Denzel Washington's latest revenge/justice role conquered the box office after a slow September weekend.
The Equalizer, a thriller starring Denzel Washington conquered the North American box off after yet another slow weekend. Washington plays a man, who helps rescue a young girl from the clutches of Russian gangsters. With Antoine Fuqua directing, the film plays like classic Washington fare – stylish, violent and effective in delivering a simple point, just like its protagonist.
Denzel Washington is the equalizer in yet another violent justice fantasy flick.
But enough about that, let’s show some love to the competition that The Equalizer bumped off. The latest YA dystopian adaptation, The Maze Runner, dropped to second place, checking in at $17,5 million in North American weekend earnings, according to Box Office Mojo. This brings the film – a story about teenagers, who wake up to find themselves stranded in the middle of a creature-infested maze – to a two-week domestic gross of $58 million.
Watch The Maze Runner trailer below.
Meanwhile, Laika Entertainment’s quirky animation The Boxtrolls, about a race of monsters, who wear cardboard, miraculously made it to number 3 with $17,4 million. In the movie, the odd-looking Boxtrolls live underground where they raise an orphaned human boy, who later tries to find his own identity. Fun fact: Laika is the independent studio behind 2009’s Coraline and 2012’s ParaNorman.
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The comedy This is Where I Leave You took in $7 million at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters, landing in fourth place. And finally, Dolphin Tale 2 settled in the No. 5 slot with $4.8 million.
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