“Gone Girl,” the Fox thriller starring Ben Affleck as a man whose wife goes missing overcame “Annabelle,” the Warner Bros. possessed-doll horror movie. “Gone Girl” opened with a $38 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
With the screenplay of “Gone Girl” written by Gillian Flynn, herself the author of the 2012 best-selling novel, and in the gifted hands of director David Fincher, the viewer is in for an engrossing, two-and-a-half-hour, swiftly passing ride.