Weekend Wrap-Up
Guardians of the Galaxy Stops Summer Slump
By David Mumpower
August 3, 2014
The four-weekend-old Dawn of the Planet of the Apes hangs on to a top five spot. Its weekend total was $8.7 million, a 48% decline from the previous frame. The second film in the latest reboot of the series has now increased its domestic total to $189.3 million, with its international take matching that amount.
Planes: Fire and Rescue is our sixth place finisher. It fell 33% to $6.4 million as it inches ever closer to matching its budget amount. The film has a domestic total of $47.6 million and overseas revenue of $21 million, meaning that even though Disney does damage the Pixar brand somewhat by continuing with the releases that look as though they should go straight-to-video, they make enough money to justify the financial decision. And that doesn’t even take the toy sales into consideration.
Yet another Universal success is in seventh place. The Purge: Anarchy had a weekend total of $5.6 million, a drop of 47% from the previous frame. Its domestic total now sits at $63 million, which is wildly successful considering that the budget for the horror flick was only $9 million. Don’t doubt for a moment that we’ll be seeing yet another purge during the summer of 2015.
Sex Tape spends probably its final weekend in the top 10, as it earned $3.6 million, dropping 41% from the previous weekend. The Cameron Diaz/Jason Segel comedy has to be considered a disappointment. Its domestic total of $33.9 million still throws well under the $40 million budget, and even the additional money from overseas isn’t going to help much.
The films in ninth and tenth place are tied with a weekend total of $3.3 million. And So It Goes, the Michael Douglas/Diane Keaton film from Clarius Entertainment, finished about $20,000 ahead of the Philip Seymour Hoffman spy flick A Most Wanted Man, but their trajectories are a bit different. And So It Goes declined 28% from last week and brings its total to $10.5 million. A Most Wanted Man’s screens increased by 368 and resulted in a jump of 24% compared to the previous frame. Its domestic total so far is $7.1 million.
Overall, the top 12 films earned $172.6 million, an increase of 40% over the $123.3 million take from the same weekend last year. Yes, that is the first time in many, many weekends that we have seen a year-over-year increase. We’ll hope to continue that trend next weekend, as new releases include the tornadoes-stalking-humans flick Into the Storm, the Michael Bay-produced reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the dance movie Step Up All In, and The Hundred-Foot Journey, featuring Helen Mirren and produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey.
| 1 |
Guardians of the Galaxy |
Disney |
$94,000,000 |
New |
$94,000,000 |
| 2 |
Lucy |
|
$18,283,420 |
- 58% |
$79,570,805 |
| 3 |
Get On Up |
Universal |
$14,030,580 |
New |
$14,030,580 |
| 4 |
Hercules |
|
$10,700,000 |
- 64% |
$52,348,000 |
| 5 |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes |
Fox |
$8,700,000 |
- 48% |
$189,329,700 |
| 6 |
Planes: Fire & Rescue |
Disney |
$6,424,000 |
- 33% |
$47,596,000 |
| 7 |
The Purge: Anarchy |
Universal |
$5,551,040 |
- 47% |
$62,962,015 |
| 8 |
Sex Tape |
Sony |
$3,550,000 |
- 41% |
$33,908,000 |
| 9 |
And So It Goes |
Clarius Entertainment |
$3,344,160 |
- 28% |
$10,472,943 |
| 10 |
A Most Wanted Man |
Roadside Attractions |
$3,324,265 |
+ 27% |
$7,058,814 |
| 11 |
Boyhood |
IFC Films |
$2,522,210 |
+ 43% |
$7,565,590 |
| 12 |
Transformers: Age of Extinction |
PARAMOUNT |
$2,200,000 |
- 53% |
$241,166,000 |
| |
Also Opening/Notables |
| |
Calvary |
FOX SEARCHLIGHT |
$72,800 |
New |
$72,800 |
| |
Magic In the Moonlight |
Sony Classics |
$770,430 |
+ 87% |
$1,352,766 |
| |
The Fluffy Movie |
Open Road Films |
$530,206 |
- 60% |
$2,370,158 |
| |
A Master Builder |
Abramorama |
$4,475 |
- 43% |
$21,829 |
| |
Wish I Was Here |
Focus Features |
$614,000 |
- 47% |
$3,057,966 |
| |
I Origins |
FOX SEARCHLIGHT |
$70,000 |
- 9% |
$236,100 |
| |
Tammy |
WARNER BROS. |
$1,580,000 |
- 54% |
$81,543,000 |
| |
Begin Again |
Weinstein Co. |
$696,000 |
- 56% |
$13,783,337 |
| |
How To Train Your Dragon 2 |
Fox |
$1,215,000 |
- 46% |
$168,569,100 |
| |
22 Jump Street |
Sony |
$1,200,000 |
- 54% |
$188,461,000 |
| |
Maleficent |
Disney |
$1,243,000 |
- 32% |
$234,711,000 |
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Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations
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