Box Office Top 20: 'Sausage Party' scarfs up $34.3 million
Box Office Top 20: 'Sausage Party' scarfs up $34.3 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was a feast for the raunchy animated comedy "Sausage Party" at the box office this weekend.
The R-rated pic about anthropomorphized hot dogs and other grocery store foodstuffs earned $34.3 million out of the gate against a modest $19 million budget.
"Sausage Party" still came in second to "Suicide Squad," which held on to the top spot again with $43.5 million in weekend two.
In third place, Disney's remake of "Pete's Dragon" stayed earthbound with only $21.5 million.
The CG and live-action hybrid cost an estimated $65 million to produce.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.