LOS ANGELES — Four new films couldn’t catch “Gone Girl” at theaters this weekend. The Fox thriller starring Ben Affleck as a man whose wife goes missing is poised to top the box office for a second week with $26.8 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Also starring Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl” is based on the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, who adapted her book for the screen.
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“To have an adult drama like this hold up so well for two weekends in a row is really unusual,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.
Universal’s “Dracula Untold” opened in second place with $23.4 million. The Disney family romp, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” debuted in third with $19.1 million.
Two Warner Bros. films round out the top five. The horror “Annabelle” claimed fourth place in its second week of release with $16.3 million, followed by the Robert Downey Jr.-Robert Duvall drama, “The Judge,” which debuted with $13.3 million.
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