Two sequels battled for the top spot at the box office this weekend. At this moment, the newcomer appears to have taken the lead, but rumor has it that the movies could easily switch places when the final tallies are released later today. <\/p>\n
Weekend estimates place ‘Think Like a Man Too<\/strong>‘ in the lead with $30 million, while ‘22 Jump Street<\/strong>‘ stayed strong with $29 million in its second weekend. ‘Like a Man’ earned $3.6 million less than its predecessor, which was surprising due to the ongoing draw of actor\/comedian Kevin Hart. ‘Jump Street’, however, only slipped 49%, pushing its ten-day total up to $111.4 million. ‘Man’ hasn’t yet opened overseas, but ‘Jump Street’ has earned $38.2 million from international markets.<\/p>\n The #3 spot went to ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2<\/strong>‘. With positive reviews and word of mouth, it was believed that the DreamWorks family flick would make up for its underwhelming debut with a strong holdover \u2013 but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Its 49% drop-off is painful for a family movie, but at least the film still has another week and a half until the next big kids’ movie (‘Earth to Echo’) opens. Weekend two pulled in $25.3 million, which pushed its ten-day total up to $95.1 million.<\/p>\n Clint Eastwood’s Broadway adaptation claimed the #4 spot. Despite being based on a smash hit, Tony-winning musical, ‘Jersey Boys<\/strong>‘ only earned a paltry $13.5 million. Eastwood’s movies are rarely box office blockbusters, but the Broadway appeal of this one was supposed to change that. The R-rated drama is estimated to close around $50 million, but I don’t see even that much happening.<\/p>\n ‘Maleficent<\/strong>‘ rounded out to Top 5 by easing just 29% in its fourth weekend with another $13 million, which has pushed its domestic total up to $185.9 million. This points to the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ spinoff being one of summer’s biggest movies.<\/p>\n Paul Haggis’ ‘Third Person<\/strong>‘ didn’t live up to the writer\/director’s Oscar-winning credits, but his movies haven’t seen acclaim for some time now. The ensemble drama earned $42,000 from five locations, giving it a per-screen average of $8,400.<\/p>\n Roman Polanski’s black comedy ‘Venus in Fur<\/strong>‘ performed a little stronger in limited release, but still didn’t do great business. From two screens, the IFC-distributed picture grossed $26,200 and per-screen average of $13,100.<\/p>\n Australian crime drama ‘The Rover<\/strong>‘ expanded to 599 locations, but failed to do any business. That’s what happens when a rinky-dink studio pushes an unmarketed picture to a high screen count. From the 599 locations, ‘The Rover’ only earned $500,000, with a per-screen average of just $835.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Think Like a Man Too’ (Screen Gems) – $30,000,000<\/p>\n 2. ’22 Jump Street’ (Sony) – $29,000,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ (Fox) – $25,300,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Jersey Boys’ (Warner Bros.) – $13,515,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Maleficent’ (Buena Vista) – $13,012,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ (Warner Bros.) – $10,340,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ (Fox) – $8,600,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ (Fox) – $6,200,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Chef’ (Open Road) – $1,845,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Godzilla’ (Warner Bros.) – $1,820,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two sequels battled for the top spot at the box office this weekend. At this moment, the newcomer appears to have taken the lead, but rumor has it that the movies could easily switch places when the final tallies are released later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":63195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[4138,178,1459,7453,7022,7144,4986,7462,7463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63188"}],"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=63188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63289,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63188\/revisions\/63289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h2>\n