--- description: Its estimated $47.5 million earnings beat out 'The Intern' and set the new record for the biggest September opening of all time title: 'Hotel Transylvania 2' Earns the Biggest September Opening Ever image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ff48655002a685a/698865b40a4a22f7ba9c6481/hotel-transylvania-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&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 # _Hotel Transylvania 2_ Earns the Biggest September Opening Ever by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 27, 2015 10:40 PM CUT  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](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 27, 2015 10:40 PM CUT _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 "undefined")**— $47.5 million** **2\.** [**_The Intern_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/21/the-intern-ew-review "undefined")**— $18.2 million** **3\.** [**_Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/16/maze-runner-scorch-trials-review "undefined")**— $14 million** **4\.** [**_Everest_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/02/everest-ew-review "undefined")**— $13.1 million** **5\.** [**_Black Mass_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/14/black-mass-ew-review "undefined")**— $11.5 million** _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/27/box-office-report-hotel-transylvania-2-the-intern "undefined") _originally appeared at_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4051425/hotel-transylvania-2-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4051425/hotel-transylvania-2-box-office/"},"headline":"Hotel Transylvania 2 Earns the Biggest September Opening Ever","datePublished":"2015-09-27T22:40:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:18:06.311Z","description":"Its estimated $47.5 million earnings beat out 'The Intern' and set a new record","url":"https://time.com/4051425/hotel-transylvania-2-box-office/","keywords":["movies","Sony","Selena Gomez","Adam Sandler"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ff48655002a685a/698865b40a4a22f7ba9c6481/hotel-transylvania-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ff48655002a685a/698865b40a4a22f7ba9c6481/hotel-transylvania-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"hotel-transylvania-2-","caption":"Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), Dracula (Adam Sandler) and Vlad (Mel Brooks) in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation's HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2.","creditText":"Sony Picture Animation","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/4051425/hotel-transylvania-2-box-office/","name":"Hotel Transylvania 2 Earns the Biggest September Opening Ever"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far)","description":"TIME movie critic, Richard Corliss lists his top films of the millennium (Thus Far). 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