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APEX Hollywood Shortlist: Goosebumps Delivers Solid Chills and Thrills in Busy Pre-Halloween Weekend with an Estimated $23.5M

October 19, 2015  | Written by Tomas Romero

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APEX Insight: In a big weekend for thrillers, Bridge of Spies sneaks to third and things that go Goose-bump in the night, creep to the top of the heap with an estimated $23.5M.

Not even Hollywood heavyweights like Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro and Tom Hanks could scare away the marauding monsters of Goosebumps this past weekend with the big screen adaptation of R.L. Stine’s hugely popular kids book series goosing up a frightfully good $23.5M.

Starring Birdman’s Amy Ryan and Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award-winner and frequent host Jack Black as Stine, Goosebumps imagines a world where the creepy characters from Stine’s novels are unleashed upon the unsuspecting masses. And from the looks of the trailer, which features a Yeti, a werewolf, a ventriloquist dummy who can drive and a giant praying mantis, this seasonal treat should be serving up real-life goosebumps in audience members young and old straight through till Halloween. Trick or treat indeed!

The second big Amy Ryan release of the weekend was director Steven Spielberg’s twisty take on the infamous U-2 Incident of 1960, Bridge of Spies, which smuggled up a stealth $15.3M. Starring Tom Hanks as real-life lawyer James B. Donovan, the man who negotiated the exchange of a captured American U-2 pilot for a Russian spy during the height of the Cold War, Spies is Hanks fourth collaboration with Spielberg and from all accounts, the fourth time is definitely the charm.

Written by award-winning screenwriter and playwright Mark Charman and the Coen brothers (yes, they write movies for other people too) expect to hear a lot more award season chatter about these Spies in the next couple of months.

Also opening wide with an estimated $12.8M was director Guillermo del Toro’s gothic-horror-ghost story Crimson Peak with Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam. A fanboy ode to romantic horror classics like The Haunting, The Innocents, Gaslight and any number of vintage Hammer film productions, Peak ups the gore and scare factor immeasurably as only the director of Pan’s Labyrinth and the Hellboy can. In other words, this movie is gonna look amazing and scare the corset off you at the same time, so lace up accordingly!

Weekend Box Office Estimates: October 16 – 18, 2015