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It’s possible for Black Mass to show some legs over the next couple weeks, as the film is definitely aimed at older viewers who tend to take their time getting to theaters, and the strong reviews for Depp’s performance will likely get some people to buy tickets. It only cost $53 million to make, so it will certainly make that back domestically, and anything overseas will just be gravy.

Third place goes to The Visit, one of last weekend’s openers. The first step in M. Night Shyamalan’s plan to get him back into our good graces, The Visit earned $11.3 million, down 55% from its opening, giving it $42.3 million to date. Remember, this only cost $5 million to make, and of course it’s from Universal, which is having the greatest year that any studio has ever had. The drop for The Visit actually could’ve been much worse considering it’s basically a horror film, and will easily cross the $60 million mark over the next few weeks.

Last weekend’s winner The Perfect Guy falls to fourth, down a much more predictable 63% to $9.6 million and $41.3 million in two weekends. 2014’s No Good Deed, also a Screen Gems thriller with a predominantly black cast, followed a similar trajectory down the chart, also falling from first place ($24.2 million) to fourth place ($9.7 million) in its second weekend. Also cheap to make, with a reported cost of $12 million, this is just fine as it heads towards a total $55 million or so.

Everest doesn’t open everywhere until next weekend, but it played in IMAX and premium theaters this weekend (545 of them, to be exact), and it earned $7.5 million. An ensemble drama starring Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Sam Worthington, Robin Wright, Emily Watson and Keira Knightley among others, it’s a film that kind of exists because of IMAX. Audiences (and most critics, 73% Fresh at RT) agreed and this is a pretty good start for the wider release next weekend.

War Room continues to hold well despite falling from third to sixth place. It’s only down 19% from last weekend with $6.3 million, giving it $49.1 million to date. Faith-based releases are still hit and miss, but when they hit, the targeted audience really latches on. Made for just $3 million, it’s headed towards the $60 million mark by the time it’s finished.

A Walk in the Woods slips to seventh with $2.7 million, down 42% from last week. It sits at $24.8 million and is clearly a win for the upstart distributor Broad Green Pictures.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is the elder statesman of the top ten, spending its eighth weekend in release by adding another $2.2 million to its total, which now stands at $191.7 million. It probably doesn’t have enough juice left in it to top Ghost Protocol’s $209 million, and it’s going to be really close when it comes to the $200 million mark. My guess is it falls just short.

Former three-week champion Straight Outta Compton comes in ninth on the weekend with $1.9 million. It has now earned $158.9 million in six weekends. The NWA biopic is one of the summer’s biggest successes and is one of the few films that doesn’t play well overseas these days, not that it matters any in this case.

We have a surprise in the tenth spot as Sony Pictures Classics’ Grandma goes to 1,061 theaters and earns $1.6 million on the weekend, giving it $3.7 million to date after four weekends in less than 150 theaters. Starring Lily Tomlin, written and directed by Paul Weitz, and reportedly made for just $600,000, it’s got outstanding reviews and they might enough to push for an acting nomination for Tomlin. This weekend might be good enough for another small expansion.

Just outside the top ten is Captive, a faith-based thriller that got a targeted release of just 806 theaters and earned only $1.4 million. While it starred actors who people have heard of, or at least seen in Kate Mara and David Oyelowo, War Room was still the choice of those who are interested in films in this vein.

Overall, the top 12 this week earned $99.5 million, up from $93.3 million a year ago when the #2 film behind the Maze Runner was Liam Neeson’s A Walk Among the Tombstones, with just $13.1 million. Next weekend brings the wide release of Everest, Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway's The Intern and the animated sequel Hotel Transylvania 2.

Top Ten for Weekend of September 18-20, 2015
Rank	Film	Distributor	Estimated Gross ($)	Weekly Change	Cumulative Gross ($)
1	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials	Fox	30.3	New	30.3
2	Black Mass	Warner Bros.	23.3	New	23.3
3	The Visit	Universal	11.3	-55%	42.3
4	The Perfect Guy	Sony	9.6	-63%	41.3
5	Everest	Universal	7.5	New	7.5
6	War Room	Sony	6.3	-19%	49.1
7	A Walk in the Woods	Broad Green	2.7	-42%	24.8
8	Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation	Paramount	2.2	-46%	191.7
9	Straight Outta Compton	Universal	1.9	-50%	158.9
10	Grandma	Paramount	1.6	+148%	3.7
Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations

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