{"id":54807,"date":"2013-08-19T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=54807"},"modified":"2018-02-15T18:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T02:32:06","slug":"boxoffice-aug-19-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-aug-19-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: You Got Served… by ‘The Butler’!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of this weekend’s four wide releases, only one walked away a success. One of the other three did all right, but the others flopped hard.
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‘Precious<\/a>‘ filmmaker Lee Daniels is back on top after last year’s dud ‘The Paperboy<\/a>‘. ‘The Butler<\/strong>‘ opened to an awesome $25 million from 2,900 screens. Some early MPAA controversy is partially given credit for the successful debut of this small $30 million film. The rest of the success is accredited to the movie itself. Test screenings resulted in rave feedback.<\/p>\n

‘We’re the Millers<\/strong>‘ had a very strong second week, only slipping 32% in attendance. The comedy earned another $17.7 million, bringing its ten-day total up to $69.5 million. Meanwhile, ‘Elysium<\/strong>‘ didn’t hold over nearly as well. The sci-fi flick slipped 54% to $13.6 million. That brings it to $55.9 million over ten days.<\/p>\n

Now distributed by Universal, ‘Kick-Ass 2<\/strong>‘ underperformed. Estimated to debut around the $18 million mark, the sequel only pulled in $13.5 million. In 2010, the sleeper hit original ‘Kick-Ass<\/a>‘ opened to $19.8 million, so this comes as a tough blow. Unfortunately, since it’s an unquestionably lesser sequel, I don’t imagine that it will hold over very well next weekend.<\/p>\n

The Top 5 was rounded out by Disney’s ‘Planes<\/strong>‘, nose-diving 40%.<\/p>\n

Debuting in the #7 spot was the Steve Jobs bio-pic ‘Jobs<\/strong>‘, with a weak $6.7 million. But that wasn’t the worst opening of the weekend.<\/p>\n

Harrison Ford doesn’t make ’em like he used to. I don’t know what he was paid to co-star in ‘ Paranoia<\/strong>‘, but I doubt that its opening weekend was high enough to pay that salary. On nearly 2,500 screens, the corporate thriller opened in the #13 spot with only $3.5 million. Do you think we’ll see Liam Hemsworth cast in a leading role again?<\/p>\n

Despite the trend of nationwide failures, this weekend’s limited releases had very strong openings. Jerusha Hess’ ‘Austenland<\/strong>‘ earned $42,600 from just four screens, giving it a per-screen average of $10,650. That’s actually the second-best of the weekend. The Western ‘Ain’t The Bodies Saints<\/strong>‘ opened just behind it with $28,800 from three screens, a per-screen average of $9,600.<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h5>\n

‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ (Weinstein) – $25,010,000<\/p>\n

‘We’re the Millers’ (Warner Bros.) – $17,780,000<\/p>\n

‘Elysium’ (Sony) – $13,600,000<\/p>\n

‘Kick-Ass 2’ (Universal) – $13,568,000<\/p>\n

‘Planes’ (Buena Vista) – $13,141,000<\/p>\n

‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’ (Fox) – $8,375,000<\/p>\n

‘Jobs’ (Open Road) – $6,700,000<\/p>\n

‘2 Guns’ (Universal) – $5,572,000<\/p>\n

‘The Smurfs 2’ (Sony) – $4,600,000<\/p>\n

‘The Wolverine’ (Fox) – $4,425,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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