--- description: It gets just an an estimated $3.4 million title: 'Our Brand Is Crisis' Is Sandra Bullock's Worst Opening image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt646779b2e52a6625/69886f1ce20a871550a8dfdc/our-brand-is-crisis.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 # _Our Brand Is Crisis_ Is Sandra Bullock's Worst Opening by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 2, 2015 12:32 AM CUT  Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton in Our Brand is Crisis. Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton in Our Brand is Crisis.Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 2, 2015 12:32 AM CUT The same three holdovers topped the box office again this weekend over what proved to be a very scary Halloween for new releases. Thanks to a trio of weak debuts and Halloween falling on a Saturday, this weekend brought in about $74 million in total, taking the title of the worst weekend of the entire year. _Our Brand Is Crisis, Burnt_, and _Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse_ all opened below expectations. _Our Brand Is Crisis,_ which stars Sandra Bullock as an American political strategist working on a Bolivian presidential election, earned a dismal C+ CinemaScore and clocks in as the worst wide release of Bullock’s career, just below the rom-com _Two If By Sea_, which debuted to $4.7 million in 1996\. Directed by David Gordon Green, _Our Brand Is Crisis_ earned an estimated $3.4 million in 2,202 locations, placing eighth for the weekend. John Wells’ _Burnt,_ starring Bradley Cooper, also marked one of the worst wide releases of Cooper’s career, earning $5 million in 3,003 theaters. Featuring Cooper as a chef angling to make his comeback in the culinary world, _Burnt_ earned a B- CinemaScore. This weekend’s third new wide-release didn’t even manage to crack the top 10, as the R-rated zombie comedy _Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse_debuted to an estimated $1.8 million in 1,509 theaters.Earning a B- CinemaScore, _Scouts Guide_ is the second film to be released as part of Paramount’s new flexible distribution plan, which allows the studio to release a film digitally only a few weeks after its theatrical debut. In exchange for shortening the window between a movie’s theatrical release and its home entertainment release, Paramount will give theater chains who agree to the deal a cut of the digital revenue. Because many major theater chains opted out, films like _Scouts Guide_ and last weekend’s_Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension_ debuted in far fewer theaters. The new releases’ failure to hit double digits cleared the way for holdovers like _The Martian_ to once again top the box office. Ridley Scott’s sci-fi flick has held at No. 1 four out of the last five weekends, and after earning an estimated $11.4 million this weekend, its domestic total is now at a whopping $182.8 million._The Martian_ is expected to soon surpass _Gladiator’s_$187.7 million total to become the biggest movie of Scott’s career (not adjusted for inflation). The PG-rated _Goosebumps_ earned $10.2 million for second place, bringing its domestic total to $57.1 million. _Bridge of Spies_, which reunites Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, took third again with an estimated $8.1 million and a domestic total of $45.2 million. _Hotel Transylvania 2_ placed fourth, earning $5.8 million in its sixth weekend for a domestic total of $156 million. Here are this weekend’s top five: **1\.** [**_The Martian_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/29/the-martian-ew-review "undefined")**— $11.4 million** **2\.** [**_Goosebumps_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/09/goosebumps-ew-review "undefined")**— $10.2 million** **3\.** [**_Bridge of Spies_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/06/bridge-of-spies-ew-review "undefined")**— $8.1 million** **4\.** [**_Hotel Transylvania_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/24/hotel-transylvania-2-ew-review "undefined") **_2_** **— $5.8 million** **5\.** [**_Burnt_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/28/burnt-ew-review "undefined")**— $5 million** [This story originally appeared at EW.com](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/01/box-office-report-our-brand-crisis-burnt "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4095988/sandra-our-brand-is-crisis-opening-weekend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4095988/sandra-our-brand-is-crisis-opening-weekend/"},"headline":"Our Brand Is Crisis Is Sandra Bullock's Worst Opening","datePublished":"2015-11-02T00:32:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:15:21.174Z","description":"It gets just an an estimated $3.4 million","url":"https://time.com/4095988/sandra-our-brand-is-crisis-opening-weekend/","keywords":["movies","Box-office"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt646779b2e52a6625/69886f1ce20a871550a8dfdc/our-brand-is-crisis.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/blt646779b2e52a6625/69886f1ce20a871550a8dfdc/our-brand-is-crisis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"OUR BRAND IS CRISIS","caption":"OUR BRAND IS CRISIS","creditText":"Courtesy of Warner Bros 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/4095988/sandra-our-brand-is-crisis-opening-weekend/","name":"Our Brand Is Crisis Is Sandra Bullock's Worst Opening"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Our Brand Is Crisis - Official Trailer","description":"Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton star in OUR BRAND IS CRISIS","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/eENTmJJW/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-09-08T19:20:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/eENTmJJW.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4095988/sandra-our-brand-is-crisis-opening-weekend/","duration":"PT2M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4095988/sandra-our-brand-is-crisis-opening-weekend/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```