Box Office Weekend: Captain America Falls to The Other Woman

While not winning the hearts of critics, The Other Woman managed to charm enough cash at the box office – an estimated $24.7 million – to finally push Captain America: The Winter Soldier (estimated $16 million) into second place. Not that the latest Marvel film has much to fear, considering its hefty domestic haul of $224.8 million alone is more than enough to make it a success. It is the current highest grosser at the box office, making light of the estimated $13.8 million for Heaven is for Real (though that has been a powerful success on its own terms, easily besting its $12 million budget) and the estimated $13.7 million for Rio 2 (which has yet to break the $100 million mark here, but has done massive overseas business).

Paul Walker’s posthumous release Brick Mansions, an Americanized remake of Luc Besson’s District B13, opened slowly considering its star power, its estimated $9.6 million is not a good start to cover the modest $28 million budget. However, it is unlikely to bomb as unpleasantly as Transcendence (estimated $4.1 million), as the techno-thriller has barely made back half its costs in worldwide gross. As for The Quiet Ones, the latest ghostly tale from the makers of The Woman in Black, it would seem to be on track for failure as well, though not quite as poor of one (unless the Lionsgate release also cost $100 million to make, a highly unlikely scenario), opening to an estimated $4 million and no reported budget.

In the final three, Bears fared best, climbing the ranks while still slipping in income with an estimated $3.6 million…despite high critical marks, it remains the lowest earning Disneynature film, and may only have a slim chance of gaining traction on the other documentaries in the series. Divergent and A Haunted House 2 are both successes in money terms, with Divergent’s estimated $3.6 million adding to a $139.5 million domestic haul, but A Haunted House 2, while solidly profitable (its estimated $3.3 million for its second week almost enough to cover its budget alone), came nowhere near the success of the latest parody films, including its $40 million-earning predecessor, and may signal an end to the franchise or a new direction for the genre.

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When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."

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