Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Box: If I see this movie, does that mean I get to say I helped give Charlie Hunnam a Pacific Rim job?

1. Despicable Me 2 - $44m / $230m / $340m
2. Grown Ups 2 - $37m / $37m / $115m
3. Pacific Rim - $27m / $27m / $80m
4. The Heat - $15m / $113m / $160m
5. The Lone Ranger - $13m / $73.5m / $108m
6. Monsters University - $11m / $238m / $265m
7. World War Z - $9.5m / $177.5m / $200m
8. White House Down - $7m / $64m / $80m
9. Man of Steel - $6m / $282m / $300m
10. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain - $4m / $25.5m / $36m

Well, I guess Despicable Me 2 will be the #2 movie of the summer.  Pacific Rim's anticipated failure (commercially, at least) has been a story for weeks, which means audiences might be reluctant to see it given people connotate financial bomb with critical one.  Sadly.  The Lone Ranger is both!  Grown Ups 2 has many things going for it and against it.  I've said this here before, but I don't usually root for films to fail.  Jack and Jill and That's My Boy should've given Adam Sandler a clue that audiences are wearing of his schtick, but this film being the only major PG-13 comedy in some time will help it.  Sadly.  Despite all the 'sadly''s, the box-office is still booming. 

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