While New Line Cinema’sITremake managed to salvage a horrid summer box office season, last weekend marked a return to the box office’s slumping ways with a slew of underperforming newcomers. As expected though, Warner Bros.‘Blade Runner 2049debuted at just the right time to put the box office back on track, opening in the top spot with a decent $31.5 million. While it still came in far under mostbox office predictions, it still helped the box office get back on track for what could be a strong fall season.

ThisBlade Runnersequel opened in 4,058 theaters, earning a decent $7,769 per-screen average in the top spot at the box office this weekend. It also earned an additional $50.2 million this weekend, to bring its worldwide opening weekend total to $81.7 million. Still, that figure represents roughly half of its $150 million production budget, and since the project isn’t slated to open in China, and it only has two more markets left to open in, South Korea on October 12 and Japan on October 27, its worldwide total may fall short of expectations.

Blade Runner 2049is set thirty years after the events of the first film, following a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to findRick Deckard(Harrison Ford), a formerLAPD blade runnerwho has been missing for 30 years. Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford lead a diverse cast that also includes Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, with Dave Bautista and Jared Leto. Acclaimed filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Arrival,Prisoners) directs from a script by originalBlade Runnerwriter Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, with Ridley Scott producing.

Opening in second place this weekend wasThe Mountain Between Uswhich earned an estimated $10.1 million, debuting in 3,088 theaters for a middling $3,271 per-screen average. Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on aperilous journeyacross hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing one another to endure and discovering strength they never knew possible. The film is directed by Academy Award nominee Hany Abu-Assad and stars Academy Award winner Kate Winslet and Golden Globe winner Idris Elba.

The top 10 is rounded out byIT($9.6 million),My Little Pony: The Movie($8.8 million),Kingsman: The Golden Circle($8.1 million),American Made($8 million),The LEGO Ninjago Movie($6.7 million),Victoria & Abdul($4.1 million),Flatliners($3.8 million) andBattle of the Sexes($2.4 million). Also arriving in limited release are Purdie Distribution’sThe Stray, which earned $550,000 from 640 theaters for an abysmal $859 per-screen average, and A24’sThe Florida Project, which earned $153,342 from just four theaters for an impressive $38,336 per-screen average. No box office data was released for Vertical Entertainment’s2307: Winter’s Dream, Dada Films’Architects of Denial, Parade Deck Films’Bad Grandmas, Well Go USA’sBetter Watch OutandCity of Rock, Hanover House’sDaisy Winters, BBC Worldwide North America’sEarth: One Amazing Day, Freestyle Releasing’sGenerational Sins, Film Movement’sParadise, Good Deed’sSo B. It, and Eammon Films’Una.

Looking ahead to next weekend, there will be four new movies opening in wide release, with STX Entertainment’sThe Foreigner, Universal’shorror-thriller Happy Death Day, Open Road Films’Marshalland Annapurna Pictures’Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. Also opening in limited release next weekend is IFC’s78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene, Bleecker Street’sBreathe, Matson Films’The Departure, Fox Serchlight’sGoodbye Christopher Robin, Indican’sThe Lucky Man, Parade Deck Films’Man From Earth: Holocene, Vertical Entertainment’sThe Secret Scripture, Freestyle Releasing’sSwing Awayand Super LTD’sWASTED! The Story of Food Waste. Take a look at our projected top 10 for the weekend of October 6, and check back on Sunday for the official box office estimates, courtesy ofBox Office Mojo