Box Office: ‘Hotel Transylvania 2’ Surprises With Record-Breaking $47 Million Opening

With tracking being fairly unreliable recently, 2015 has been full of major surprises at the box-office. Everyone knew Universal’s “Jurassic World” would be big, but even box-office pundits weren’t prepared for how huge the movie would be. Ditto for the studio's “Straight Outta Compton” which was a “surprise” runaway hit even though many had pegged it for a huge success earlier in the year (the opposite happened to Warner Bros’. “Vacation” when it ran face first into extremely negative reviews). And much was the same with Sony’s animated sequel, “Hotel Transylvania 2.” Many assumed it would take the number one slot at the box-office this weekend, but no one was prepared for a record-breaking gross that nearly hit $50 million, making it the biggest September opening of all time. While Adam Sandler movies keep losing their potency at the box-office, apparently his voice-work hasn’t been affected. $47.5 million is huge, but perhaps not entirely unexpected: the original took in $42...