New releases tank; ‘Martian’ stays at No. 1

October 26, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

LOS ANGELES

It was a truly outrageous weekend at the box office, and not in a good way.

The pack of new releases proved to be all out duds, some worse than others, leaving room for holdovers “The Martian” and “Goosebumps” to stay in the top spots with $15.9 and $15.5 million, respectively according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. The Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks Cold War thriller “Bridge of Spies” also held nicely in third place with $11 million.

Vin Diesel’s “The Last Witch Hunter” tanked with $10.8 million, killing any hopes of a new franchise. The Lionsgate film opened in fourth place.

In fifth place, with $9 million, was “Hotel Transylvania 2.”

None of the weekend’s flops will garner as much attention as “Jem and the Holograms,” though, which opened to $1.3 million to become one of the worst debuts of all time for a major studio movie opening in over 2,000 locations. Based on the 1980s animated series, the film opened on 2,413 screens, averaging $545 per screen, to take 15th place.

Poor reviews might have sunk “Witch Hunter,” “Jem” and “Kasbah,” but good reviews couldn’t propel Danny Boyle’s “Steve Jobs” to flashy heights. After two very strong limited-release weekends, the biopic failed to impress in wide release with $7.3 million, which landed it in seventh place.

Fallon falls again, injures other hand

BOSTON

Jimmy Fallon should probably be more careful.

Four months after the “Tonight Show” host needed emergency surgery to save one of his fingers after a fall, Fallon hurt his other hand in a spill at a party in his honor Saturday.

Fallon tweeted a picture Sunday of his hand with a couple of small bandages on his fingers, writing that it was “nothing a few band aids couldn’t fix.”

The “Saturday Night Live” alum needed to have a vein taken from his foot over the summer to repair the injured finger on his left hand. He said his wedding ring got caught when he tried to break his fall after tripping on a rug.

Fallon had received a humor award from the Harvard Lampoon in Boston earlier Saturday.

Associated Press