Mother! Makes Only $7.5M, It Takes in Another $60M

The Stephen King adaptation has made $183M in two weeks
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Sep 17, 2017 12:45 PM CDT
Mother! Stomped By It at the Box Office
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Jennifer Lawrence in a scene from "mother!"    (Niko Tavernise)

The Stephen King adaption It continues to scare up record ticket sales, taking in an estimated $60 million in its second week and leaving a paltry $7.5 million for Darren Aronofsky's audacious genre-bending psychological thriller mother! New Line and Warner Bros. It remained easily the top draw in North American theaters. It slid 51 percent from last week's unexpectedly sensational opening of $123 million. Most had expected It to open to about half that.

Paramount Pictures' mother! has horror elements, too, so it was risky to schedule it right behind It. But Aronofsky's film is a more art-house proposition, made for about $30 million. For star Jennifer Lawrence, it's the worst wide-release opening of her career. The counterterrorism thriller American Assassin edged out mother! for second place with $14.8 million. (More Jennifer Lawrence stories.)

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