'The Martian' soars high at Box Office

Ridley Scott's “The Martian” topped the box office for the second week as audiences turned out again to root for Matt Damon's industrious astronaut stranded on Mars with his wits, a stream of existential questions and a bit of hope.

The Matt Damon-starrer film won the weekend race with a better-than-expected $37 million from 3,854 locations. The space epic also continued to dazzle overseas, earning another $58.1 million from 74 markets for an early foreign total of $119 million and global total of $227.7 million.

Among new markets, “The Martian” earned a massive $12.1 million in South Korea, the largest Fox opening of all time and an industry best for the month of October.

“The Martian” and “Hotel Transylvania 2” both beat “Pan” which opened to a muted $20.5 million from 52 overseas markets representing 40 percent.

Unless it does big business internationally, Warners is facing a steep loss.

Source: THR