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Posted August 18, 2014 by Seth Paul in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: Expendables Not Strong Enough


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may not be the most critically well-received film currently in the top ten at the box office, but it is keeping its crowd the best, with a second week in the first-place spot. It earned an estimated $28.4 million, enough to keep back Guardians of the Galaxy, which picked up an estimated $24.7 million. However, Guardians of the Galaxy is the highest domestic earner on the list, with gross earnings of $222.3 million in total.

Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesAlso a winner is Let’s Be Cops, whose Wednesday opening contributed to a domestic total of $26.1 million, an estimated $17.7 million of which came from Friday to Sunday earnings. Things are not looking up for The Expendables 3, whose estimated $16.2 million is the worst opening weekend for the Sylvester Stallone-helmed franchise, nor for The Giver, based on the Lois Lowry novel, whose estimated $12.8 million barely represented half of its production costs.

Little else is a surprise; Into the Storm (estimated $7.7 million) started slow and continues to struggle, The Hundred-Foot Journey (estimated $7.1 million) broke even, Lucy (estimated $5.3 million) continues to add to a breakout run of $107.5 million, and Step Up All In (estimated $2.7 million) falls well short of expectations, making only a little more in two weeks than the previous entry Step Up Revolution made in its first weekend. However, a surprise contender appeared in tenth place: Boyhood, the twelve-year film project by Richard Linklater, has already been a success on its $4 million budget, but its estimated $2.2 million has given the almost unanimously acclaimed production a strong shot in the arm after six weeks in small scale release.

Weekend Box Office (August 15th – August 17th)

  1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…$28.4 million
  2. Guardians of the Galaxy…$24.7 million
  3. Let’s Be Cops…$17.7 million
  4. The Expendables 3…$16.2 million
  5. The Giver…$12.8 million
  6. Into the Storm…$7.7 million
  7. The Hundred-Foot Journey…$7.1 million
  8. Lucy…$5.3
  9. Step Up All In…$2.7 million
  10. Boyhood…$2.2 million
Seth Paul

Seth Paul

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."