[Weekend Box Office] Gone Girl Gone from Top Spot, Fury Brings in $23.5m
Gone Girl's run at the top of the box office has been halted thanks to David Ayer's new film, Fury. It seems that, no matter how much time passes, audiences will never tire of World War II-set films, especially if they feature an amazing collection of talent that includes Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Pena, and Shia LaBeouf. The Book of Life and The Best of Me were also released this past weekend, bringing $17m and $10.2m in ticket sales, respectively. Read the rest of the weekend box office's numbers below.
1. Fury - $23,500,000
2. Gone Girl - $17,800,000
3. The Book of Life - $17,000,000
4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - $12,039,000
5. The Best of Me - $10,200,000
6. Dracula Untold - $9,889,000
7. The Judge - $7,940,000
8. Annabelle - $7,925,000
9. The Equalizer - $5,450,000
10. The Maze Runner - $4,500,000
[via Rentrak]
[Weekend Box Office] Denzel's Back On Top with The Equalizer
Denzel's back! Of course, was there ever really any doubt? His latest film, The Equalizer, debuted this past weekend with $35m, doubling the weekend's runner-up film, The Maze Runner. The weekend's other major release, Laika's The Boxtrolls, came in a close third with $17.25m. The rest of the top 10 didn't fare so much, but considering the majority of them are already at least a month into their campaigns, show how powerful their staying power is. Guardians of the Galaxy is still carving up the box office, bringing in $3.8m to bring its cumulative domestic revenue to $319m while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles inches closet to $200m with this weekend's $1.4m.
You can read the rest of the weekend's box office numbers below.
1. The Equalizer - $35,000,000
2. The Maze Runner - $17,500,000
3. The Boxtrolls - $17,250,000
4. This is Where I Leave You - $7,010,000
5. Dolphin Tale 2 - $4,835,000
6. No Good Deed - $4,600,000
7. A Walk Among the Tombstones - $4,233,840
8. Guardians of the Galaxy - $3,789,000
9. Let's Be Cops - $1,515,000
10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $1,450,000
[via Rentrak]
[Weekend Box Office] Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Flopped Hard
To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's follow-up to 2005's Sin City was supposed to be a guaranteed box office success. With the Eva Green areola poster controversy, the addition of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the GIFs of Jessica Alba gyrating, how could it not print money? Yet somehow, someway, the film bombed hard, making only an estimated $6,477,000 in ticket sales this weekend. To give a little perspective, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For screened in 2,894 theaters, making an average of only $2,238 at each one. That's embarrassingly abysmal for a sequel to a film that made almost $160m during its initial run. With a debut this low, the odds of the film turning a profit are slim to none.
In other box office news, Guardians of the Galaxy overtook the top spot from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' run by making $17.6m over the latter's $16.8m. The Chloe Grace Moretz tearjerker, If I Stay, came in third with $16.3m, with Let's Be Cops and When the Game Stands Tall making $11m and $9.1m, respectively, to round out the top five. You can check out this weekend's full box office numbers below.
1. Guardians of the Galaxy - $17,631,000
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $16,800,000
3. If I Stay - $16,355,000
4. Let's Be Cops - $11,000,000
5. When The Game Stands Tall - $9,100,000
6. The Giver - $6,730,000
7. The Expendables 3 - $6,600,000
8. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For - $6,477,000
9. The Hundred-Foot Journey - $5,562,000
10. Into the Storm - $3,800,000
[via Rentrak]
[Weekend Box Office] The Expendables 3 Proven Expendable at Box Office
You can pack a film to the brim with action stars and explosions, but that doesn't always guarantee box office success, especially at a time when gun violence is at an extreme level of controversy. There's also the controversy that took place earlier in the summer where The Expendables 3 was leaked, in full, online. Piracy is a very real thing, and nobody, not even Sylvester Stallone, is immune to it. Whatever the real reason (or reasons) may be, the fact remains that The Expendables 3 flopped hard at the box office. With rumors that this was the final Expendables film anyways, looks like it's as good a time as any for Stallone and co. to hang up the rifles and berets.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles topped the box office for a second week in a row with Guardians of the Galaxy not far behind in second. The Damon Wayans, Jr. and Jake Johnson-led Let's Be Cops debuted at third with $17.7m above the aforementioned The Expendables 3's $16.2m, with the film adaptation of The Giver closing out the top five with a $12.7m debut.
You can check out the weekend's full box office numbers below.
1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $28,400,000
2. Guardians of the Galaxy - $24,735,000
3. Let's Be Cops - $17,700,000
4. The Expendables 3 - $16,200,000
5. The Giver - $12,760,000
6. Into the Storm - $7,720,000
7. The Hundred-Foot Journey - $7,109,000
8. Lucy - $5,317,200
9. Step Up All In - $2,700,000
10. Boyhood - $2,150,319
[via Rentrak]
[Weekend Box Office] Guardians of the Galaxy... and the Box Office
Despite the Marvel branding, Guardians of the Galaxy has always been seen as a huge risk/experiment for the company. Much like the little engine that could, not only did the film perform well at the box office (like all other Marvel properties), it absolutely demolished projected earnings. Analysts were cautious in their projections, estimating roughly $70m for the film; however, it opened to an astounding $94m, putting it in third place for the year behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Transformers: Age of Extinction. The risk going into the film's opening surrounded the characters' small following that didn't have the same broad appeal the way the Avengers characters did, as well as James Gunn's directing style that is more humorous and irreverent than previous Marvel films. Thankfully, all of that proved to be moot with Guardians' critically and financially successful opening weekend. With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opening next weekend, it should be a good sign for Hollywood that late summer/early August films do have the capacity to carry the blockbuster momentum into the fall.
You can read the entire weekend's box office numbers below.
1. Guardians of the Galaxy - $94,000,000
2. Lucy - $18,283,420
3. Get On Up - $14,030,580
4. Hercules - $10,700,000
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - $8,700,000
6. Planes: Fire and Rescue - $6,424,000
7. The Purge: Anarchy - $5,551,040
8. Sex Tape - $3,550,000
9. And So It Goes - $3,344,160
10. A Most Wanted Man - $3,324,265
[via Rentrak]
[Weekend Box Office] Lucy Overpowers Hercules
This past weekend's new releases were highlighted by two action films from different settings: Lucy, the sci-fi action film starring Scarlett Johansson as an unwitting drug mule who suddenly develops super powers and Hercules, a re-telling of the Greek mythology with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the leading role. And as fate would have it, Lucy overpowered Hercules drastically at the box office, bringing in $44m over the latter's $29m. If the two films' revenue have any larger meaning, it shows that audiences have grown more receptive to female-driven action films over the tried-and-true formula of the beefy guy killing things.
You can read the rest of the weekend box office numbers below.
1. Lucy - $44,025,375
2. Hercules - $29,000,000
3. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - $16,400,000
4. The Purge: Anarchy - $9,896,040
5. Planes: Fire and Rescue - $9,303,000
6. Sex Tape - $5,975,000
7. Transformers: Age of Extinction - $4,600,000
8. And So It Goes - $4,551,687
9. Tammy - $3,400,000
10. A Most Wanted Man - $2,717,425
[via Rentrak]