After narrowly losing Friday to new entry Dracula Untold, David Fincher's Gone Girl is expected to pull ahead on Saturday and once again top the box-office chart with an impressive $26 million-plus weekend. That's a decline of just 30 percent for the R-rated film, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.
The film's stellar hold despite a flood of new offerings raises the possibility that Gone Girl, based Gillian Flynn's popular movie, could ultimately become Fincher's top-grossing film in North America, not accounting for inflation. His top film is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ($126 million). Through Sunday, its 10th day in release, Gone Girl's total will hover around $77 million.
From 20th Century Fox and New Regency, Gone Girl grossed $8.2 Friday from 3,284 theaters, while Universal and Legendary Pictures' origins movie Dracula Untold grossed $8.9 million from 2,885 locations for a projected $22 million to $24 million weekend.
Amy Elliott Dunne killin' it.
Going to become Fincher's biggest movie in the US.