Weekend Wrap-Up
Maze Runs Box Office Up From Tombstones of Early September
By John Hamann
September 21, 2014
Fifth, then, is Dolphin Tale 2, which is not seeing the same sort of success the original did. After opening to $15.9 million last weekend, the sequel needed a second weekend above $10 million, but failed to achieve that mark, instead earning $9 million. That’s a drop of 43% for the Warner Bros. release, which carries a price tag of $36 million. It will make that much stateside, but I doubt that overseas grosses are going to turn this one around, as the original earned only $23 million overseas, compared with a $72 million domestic gross. So far, the sequel has earned $27.1 million.
Guardians of the Galaxy dips to sixth, now in its eighth weekend of release. The Marvel breakout earned another $5.2 million and fell 36%. Guardians has brought its domestic total up to $313.7 million, moving it into the top 40 domestic earners of all time. This weekend, it passed iconic films like Return of the Jedi ($309.3 million – all editions), Attack of the Clones ($310.7 million) and Iron Man 2 ($312.4 million). Next weekend it will to work over the one that started it all, Iron Man, which earned $318.4 million.
Seventh is Let’s Be Cops, the Fox comedy that won’t go away. Cops earned another $2.7 million this weekend and declined 39% from the previous frame. This one cost $17 million and won Fox the lottery, as it has earned $77.2 million at the domestic box office alone.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hangs on to a spot for another weekend, but the film seems to be fading. This weekend, the Paramount/Nickelodeon co-pro earned another $2.7 million and dropped 45% compared to the previous frame. The $125 million film has now pulled in $185 million stateside, and over $140 million overseas.
The Drop does just that, as this small film wilts this weekend, despite adding a number of screens. The last film from James Gandolfini earned only $2 million this weekend, good for a drop of 50% despite Fox Searchlight adding 383 venues. Made for less than $13 million, The Drop now has a domestic total of $7.7 million.
Finally in tenth is If I Stay, the Chloe Moretz Kleenex puller. If I Stay earned another $1.8 million and fell 53%. The $11 million film has now earned an impressive $47.7 million stateside.
In other box office news, Kevin Smith’s Tusk opened at 602 venues and earned $886,000. A film about a man turned into a walrus (Human Centipede anyone?), this one is likely too weird for general audiences to grab onto.
Overall, the box office is continuing to pull out of the depths of despair, and actually won a weekend versus last year. With The Maze Runner on top, the top 12 films garnered $93.3 million, ahead of the same weekend last year when the box office earned $73.1 million with Prisoners leading the way. Things get only more interesting next weekend, when Denzel debuts The Equalizer, and Laika brings us another creation like Coraline and ParaNorman with The Box Trolls.
| 1 |
The Maze Runner |
Fox |
$32,500,000 |
New |
$32,500,000 |
| 2 |
A Walk Among the Tombstones |
Universal |
$13,126,080 |
New |
$13,126,080 |
| 3 |
This Is Where i Leave You |
WARNER BROS. |
$11,860,000 |
New |
$11,860,000 |
| 4 |
No Good Deed |
|
$10,200,000 |
- 58% |
$40,110,000 |
| 5 |
Dolphin Tale 2 |
WARNER BROS. |
$9,005,000 |
- 43% |
$27,070,000 |
| 6 |
Guardians of the Galaxy |
Disney |
$5,180,000 |
- 36% |
$313,669,000 |
| 7 |
Let's Be Cops |
Fox |
$2,675,000 |
- 39% |
$77,195,700 |
| 8 |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
Paramount |
$2,650,000 |
- 45% |
$185,018,000 |
| 9 |
The Drop |
FOX SEARCHLIGHT |
$2,050,000 |
- 50% |
$7,689,700 |
| 10 |
If I Stay |
Summit Entertainment |
$1,835,000 |
- 53% |
$47,672,000 |
| 11 |
The Hundred-Foot Journey |
Disney |
$1,120,000 |
- 54% |
$51,456,000 |
| 12 |
When the Game Stands Tall |
Sony |
$1,050,000 |
- 56% |
$28,300,000 |
| |
Also Opening/Notables |
| |
Tusk |
A24 |
$886,114 |
New |
$886,114 |
| |
The Guest |
Picturehouse |
$82,126 |
New |
$111,703 |
| |
Hector And the Search For Happiness |
Relativity |
$46,000 |
New |
$46,000 |
| |
20,000 Days On Earth |
Drafthouse Films |
$26,873 |
New |
$29,963 |
| |
Art And Craft |
Oscilloscope |
$23,000 |
New |
$23,000 |
| |
Tracks |
Weinstein Co. |
$21,554 |
New |
$21,554 |
| |
Not Cool |
Starz Digital Media |
$14,500 |
New |
$14,500 |
| |
Keep On Keepin' On |
Radius/TWC |
$12,195 |
New |
$12,195 |
| |
The Skeleton Twins |
Roadside Attractions |
$425,000 |
+ 12% |
$925,000 |
| |
My Old Lady |
Cohen Media |
$500,000 |
+ 301% |
$690,000 |
| |
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby |
Weinstein Co. |
$169,700 |
+ 154% |
$259,590 |
| |
The November Man |
Relativity |
$686,000 |
- 76% |
$24,368,577 |
| |
As Above/So Below |
Universal |
$679,450 |
- 68% |
$20,560,720 |
| |
The Giver |
Weinstein Co. |
$967,000 |
- 62% |
$43,037,947 |
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Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations
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