--- title: 'Hotel Transylvania 2' Earns Biggest September Opening Ever description: Its estimated $47.5 million earnings beat out 'The Intern' and set the new record for the biggest September opening of all time canonical: https://time.com/4051425/hotel-transylvania-2-box-office/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-27T22:40:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:57:39.467Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Hotel Transylvania 2' Earns the Biggest September Opening Ever og:description: Its estimated $47.5 million earnings beat out 'The Intern' and set the new record for the biggest September opening of all time og:url: https://time.com/4051425/hotel-transylvania-2-box-office/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ff48655002a685a/698865b40a4a22f7ba9c6481/hotel-transylvania-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2460 og:image:height: 1384 og:image:alt: hotel-transylvania-2- og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Hotel Transylvania 2' Earns the Biggest September Opening Ever twitter:description: Its estimated $47.5 million earnings beat out 'The Intern' and set the new record for the biggest September opening of all time twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ff48655002a685a/698865b40a4a22f7ba9c6481/hotel-transylvania-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Hotel Transylvania 2_ Earns the Biggest September Opening Ever > Sponsored content. 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For the full, list go to time.com/entertainment_ by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Sep 27, 2015 10:40 PM UTC  Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), Dracula (Adam Sandler) and Vlad (Mel Brooks) in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation's HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2. Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), Dracula (Adam Sandler) and Vlad (Mel Brooks) in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation's HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2. Sony Picture Animation by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Sep 27, 2015 10:40 PM UTC _Hotel Transylvania 2_ drew blood at the box office this weekend, earning an estimated $47.5 million and setting the new record for the biggest September opening of all time. The sequel to Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated Dracula adventure shattered the $42.5 million record set by the first one in 2012, and _Hotel Transylvania 2_ (starring Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, and Selena Gomez) earned an A- CinemaScore. Not only did _Hotel Transylvania 2_ earn the biggest ever September opening, but it’s also Sony Animation’s biggest opening of all time and the biggest opening Sony has had all year. When final numbers come in on Monday, _Hotel Transylvania 2_ could also end up as the biggest Sandler opening of all time, as it’s only about $100,000 away from his current record-holder, _The Longest Yard_, which opened to $47.6 million in 2005. _The Intern_, starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, also made a solid debut, earning an estimated $18.2 million. Director Nancy Meyers’ first film since 2009 also snagged an A- CinemaScore, coming in second place, and _The Intern_ drew a primarily female, older audience. _Everest_, on the other hand, fell a little short of expectations. Last weekend, Baltasar Kormákur’s climbing adventure opened on IMAX and premium large-format screens, earning $7.2 million, and while_Everest_ was expected to earn between $15 and $17 million when it went wide this weekend, it only made an estimated $13.1 million. _Everest’s_ 10-day domestic total is now at an estimated $23.1 million. Holdovers _Black Mass_ and _Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials_ rounded out the top five. _Scorch Trials_ saw a steeper second-weekend drop than the first _Maze Runner_, falling 54 percent, but it still earned $14 million, bringing its domestic total to $51.7 million. The White Bulger biopic _Black Mass_ earned $11.5 million in its second weekend, and its domestic total is now at $42.6 million. Outside of the top five, this weekend’s other wide release marked the return of another big director: Eli Roth. _The Green Inferno_, Roth’s first directorial feature in eight years, made $3.5 million. Here are this weekend’s top five at the box office: **1\.** [**_Hotel Transylvania 2_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/24/hotel-transylvania-2-ew-review)**— $47.5 million** **2\.** [**_The Intern_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/21/the-intern-ew-review)**— $18.2 million** **3\.** [**_Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/16/maze-runner-scorch-trials-review)**— $14 million** **4\.** [**_Everest_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/02/everest-ew-review)**— $13.1 million** **5\.** [**_Black Mass_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/14/black-mass-ew-review)**— $11.5 million** _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/27/box-office-report-hotel-transylvania-2-the-intern) _originally appeared at_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Hi I'm Richard Corliss, Time Magazine movie critic, to show you my infallible or highly debatable selection of the movies of the millennium. [ MUSIC ] [ INAUDIBLE ] Stronger. In a way, these movies, made in the last 12 years, cover the whole history of movies. [ SOUND ] You'll also find a few films that look forward to the stories and techniques of the next hundred years. The fellowship awaits the ring bearer. [ MUSIC ] The Artist. It's a movie set in Hollywood's silent era and it's virtually wordless. Is that a gimmick? Nope. A sustained cinematic inspiration. Deserving of every prize it received, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. This tres French film was also the most classically American picture of its time. [ SOUND ] Found something. The Hurt Locker. US soldiers coming to Iraq knew what to expect: 130 degree heat. And streets full of men, women, and kids, [ CROSSTALK ] any one of whom could detonate a bomb that would blow Americans and Iraqis to bits. What's the best way to, to go about disarming one of these things? The [ INAUDIBLE ]. [ LAUGH ] That's a good one. Determined to get the facts straight, not to score political points. Kathryn Bigelow made an honest, searing war film that fully deserved its Oscar for Best Picture. It's just 39 days. 38 if we survive today. [ SOUND ] Avatar. James Cameron's science fiction 3D film does what fantasy is supposed to do. Create a total environmental experience. Viewers don't just visit the Pandora rainforest, like the movie's paraplegic hero Jake, they find their legs and quickly their home there. To become [ UNKNOWN ]. Hunter, you must choose you're own ikran, and he must choose you. [ NOISE ]. For a sensational, seductive movie immersion, Avatar has it all over Cameron's previous blockbuster. This film is truly titanic. [ SOUND ] The lord of the rings trilogy. Two forms are daring on display here, Peter Jackson's for synopsizing tokens novels into three spectacular three hour films. And the commercial daring of new lines cinema which financed a $ 300 million three part telling of the token saga. Before a single frame had been shot. Will you look into the mirror? What will I see? Even the wisest cannot tell, for the mirror shows many things. [ SOUND ] The movies of the past dozen years, will be remembered for their technical wizardry and digital sheen. Wall- E has all that. [ SOUND ] Plus a toy- meets- girl love story as pure as any in the cinema's first 100 years. This Pixar animated feature, designed as family entertainment, had a bold vision both in story and in sound. [ SOUND ] There's plenty of space out in space, female star liners leaving each day. We'll clean up the mess while you're away. And when Wall E meets his sleek robot Eve, they inhabit a sci fi cyborg romance for the ages. 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