{"id":51915,"date":"2013-06-10T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=51915"},"modified":"2013-09-11T15:16:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T22:16:44","slug":"boxoffice-jun-10-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-jun-10-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: You Got Purged"},"content":{"rendered":"

While there weren’t any big surprises in the Top 10 rankings this weekend, the box office’s cumulative totals were surprisingly high \u2013 especially for the weekend’s micro-budget winner.<\/p>\n

From the start, ‘The Purge<\/strong>‘ was expected to finish in the #1 spot. What wasn’t expected was the high dollar volume that it would bring. On 2,536 screens, the film pulled in $36.3 million, earning an impressive per-screen average of $14,345. When you consider that the movie was made on a tiny $3 million budget, you can see that its returns are already huge<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The execs at Universal must be doubly pleased by this, because they also nabbed the #2 spot with three-week-old ‘Fast & Furious 6<\/strong>‘. Its $19.7 million weekend pushed the franchise’s sixth installment beyond the $200 million threshold domestically. With a $202 million nationwide cumulative total and another solid weekend overseas, ‘Furious 6’ has now made $584.6 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

Summit’s ‘Now You See Me<\/strong>‘ had a strong holdover from last weekend. The magical $75 million heist movie only slipped 33% in attendance and earned another $19.5 million. Its domestic ten-day total has carried the film up to $61.3 million.<\/p>\n

The R-rated ‘Wedding Crashers<\/a>‘ may have opened to $33.9 million back in 2005, but the latest Owen Wilson\/Vince Vaughn comedy couldn’t come close \u2013 not even with a PG-13 rating \u2013 to matching that success. On 3,366 screens, the heavy-on-Google, light-on-laughs ‘The Internship<\/strong>‘ rambled along, only earning $18.1 million.<\/p>\n

Maintaining its fifth-place position was Fox’s animated family flick ‘Epic<\/strong>‘. The $12.1 million weekend has pushed its 17-day total up to $84.1 million.<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that last week’s flop ‘After Earth<\/strong>‘ is still continuing to disappoint. Its third-place opening was followed by a lousy $11.2 million seventh-place second weekend. After ten days, the $130 million budgeted film has only wrangled $46.5 million.<\/p>\n

Also of note: ‘Star Trek into Darkness<\/strong>‘ crossed the $200 million mark, ‘The Hangover Part III<\/strong>‘ hit $100 million, and ‘Iron Man 3<\/strong>‘ should pass $400 million over the next week.<\/p>\n

As for the indie releases, Joss Whedon’s black & white adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing<\/strong>‘ was the only one to debut with great numbers. Showing on just five screens, ‘Much Ado’ brought in $183,000 and earned a per-screen average of $36,600. The other two noteworthy limited releases earned much less. Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer’s ‘Wish You Were Here<\/strong>‘ only pulled in $25,700 on 11 screens, and ‘Violet & Daisy<\/strong>‘ earned $10,300 on 17 screens. The per-screen averages for those were $2,336 and $606, respectively.<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h5>\n

1. ‘The Purge’ (Universal) – $36,379,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘Fast & Furious 6’ (Universal) – $19,760,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘Now You See Me’ (Summit) – $19,500,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘The Internship’ (Fox) – $18,100,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘Epic’ (Fox) – $12,100,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘Star Trek into Darkness’ (Paramount) – $11,700,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘After Earth’ (Sony) – $11,200,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘The Hangover Part III’ (Warner Bros.) – $7,380,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘Iron Man 3’ (Buena Vista) – $5,787,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘The Great Gatsby’ (Warner Bros.) – $4,230,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While there weren’t any big surprises in the Top 10 rankings this weekend, the box office’s cumulative totals were surprisingly high \u2013 especially for the weekend’s micro-budget winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":56020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[5976,178,6434,2862,1448,188,6465,6058,454,6461,6400,6479,6478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51915"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52118,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51915\/revisions\/52118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}