Sony Pictures’ new The Magnificent Seven is proving to live up to its own name at the box office. The Magnificent Seven brought in $12.6 million at the box office on Friday and is looking at a $34 million opening weekend. The Magnificent Seven had a production budget of $90 million.
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The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the 1960 western of the same name, which was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai, swapping samurai for cowboys. In the new The Magnificent Seven, looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen, and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
The Magnificent Seven is directed by Antoine Fuqua, from a script by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk, and stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett and Peter Sarsgaard.
The animated film Storks, from Warner Bros. Animation, scored $5.7 million on Friday and is flying towards a second place, $20 million opening weekend. The film follows storks who have given up on baby delivery and instead work for an internet giant. This situation is thrown into chaos when a new baby in need of delivery suddenly appears. The film features the voices of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Danny Trejo and Stephen Kramer Glickman.
The Tom Hanks-led Sully falls from the top of the box office chart after two weeks and lands in third. Sully earned $4.2 million on Friday and is headed for a $13-14 million weekend.
Bridget Jones’s Baby earned $1.5 million on Friday, enough for a fourth place showing. Blair Witch and Snowden come in at fifth and sixth respectively.
Also opening this weekend are Kate Winslet’s The Dressmaker, which earned $53,000 in 36 theaters, and Lupita N’yongo’s and David Oyelowo’s Queen of Katwe, which earned $82.000 in 52 theaters.
