Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Box: Summer Box Office? More Like Bummer Box Office. Am I right?

1. How To Train Your Dragon 2 - $74m / $74m / $250m
2. 22 Jump Street - $65m / $65m / $180m
3. The Fault In Our Stars - $19m / $85m / $120m
4. Maleficent - $15.5m / $160m / $200m
5. Edge of Tomorrow - $13.5m / $54.5m / $85m
6. X-Men: Days of Future Past - $7m / $203.5m / $220m
7. A Million Ways To Die in the West - $3m / $37m / $44m
8. Godzilla - $3m / $191m / $200m
9. Neighbors - $2.5m / $143.5m / $150m
10. Blended - $2m / $40.5m / $44m
**Chef - $2m / $13.5m / $18m

Sadly, this is probably the biggest weekend of the summer.  Even sadder, outside of Transformers in two weeks, these are probably the last films that will do $150m+.  Jesus, things are going to be bleak in July and August.  I guess that means the potential of a lot of the modestly budgeted films over-performing (Tammy, Sex Tape, Get On Up, etc).  I really hope Warner is kicking itself over releasing Edge of Tomorrow (and calling it that!) last weekend instead of giving it a July or August date.  It'll be a tight race this weekend, very reminiscent of last year's Monsters University / World War Z showdown.  Dragon 2 is the only animated film for the next month (and one of the only of the summer?!?!?!), so that might be enough to get it the Highest Grossing Film of the Summer title.  Ooof.

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