--- description: Gone Girl just beat out family-friendly The Book of Life title: Box Office: Brad Pitt and 'Fury' Take No. 1 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt195a8a93f2543e4c/698760e1e20a877cf0a82796/fury-brad-pitt.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Fury_ Seizes No. 1 From _Gone Girl_ at Box Offices  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 19, 2014 5:01 PM CUT  Columbia Pictures  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 19, 2014 5:01 PM CUT The reign of _Gone Girl_ is over. After two weeks at No. 1 across North American box offices, David Fincher’s marital thriller [ceded to the World War II movie _Fury_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-brad-pitts-fury-741931 "undefined"), which stars Brad Pitt. The David Ayer-directed film took in $23.5 million in one of the best openings ever for a World War II movie, according to _The Hollywood Reporter._ _Gone Girl_ didn’t go down without a fight, though: its domestic gross just crossed $100 million and it also beat out the new animated film _The Book of Life_ (featuring the voices of Zoe Saldana and Channing Tatum) for the No. 2 spot. _The Best of Me_, starring James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan, became the worst-ever opening for a Nicholas Sparks novel adaptation, coming in fifth place with $10.2 million. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-brad-pitts-fury-741931 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3522497/fury-brad-pitt-gone-girl-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3522497/fury-brad-pitt-gone-girl-box-office/"},"headline":"Fury Seizes No. 1 From Gone Girl at Box Offices","datePublished":"2014-10-19T17:01:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:52:35.594Z","description":"Gone Girl beat out family-friendly The Book of Life","url":"https://time.com/3522497/fury-brad-pitt-gone-girl-box-office/","keywords":["movies","Channing Tatum","Brad Pitt","gone girl","zoe saldana"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt195a8a93f2543e4c/698760e1e20a877cf0a82796/fury-brad-pitt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt195a8a93f2543e4c/698760e1e20a877cf0a82796/fury-brad-pitt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"fury-brad-pitt","caption":"","creditText":"Columbia Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3522497/fury-brad-pitt-gone-girl-box-office/","name":"Fury Seizes No. 1 From Gone Girl at Box Offices"}}]}] ```