This weekend marks the second in a row for huge August debuts. Last week’s was due to consumer confidence in the Marvel brand and this week’s was due to nostalgia.<\/p>\n
Expected to finish neck-and-neck with Marvel’s week-old ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/strong>‘ actually took the #1 spot’ with a $23 million lead. The Michael Bay-produced franchise reboot opened to an impressive $65 million. While the movie only broke into a few international markets, it’s looking to do very good business as it rolls out overseas.<\/p>\n ‘Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong>‘ slipped 56% to earn $41.5 million, which is the best second weekend of the summer. After ten days, the Marvel misfit title has grossed $175.9 million, the best ten-day total of any movie in 2014. Overseas, ‘Guardians’ added another $40.1 million, which brings its international run up to $137 million. Disney’s unlikely action movie has now pulled in $313 million worldwide.<\/p>\n Warner’s $50 million ‘Into the Storm<\/strong>‘ opened in the #3 spot to $18 million. That’s nothing compared to the $41 million that ‘Twister’ debuted to 18 years ago. At this point, ‘Into the Storm’ is estimated to bow around the $50 million mark.<\/p>\n The food-based drama ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey<\/strong>‘ opened in fourth place with $11.1 million. That’s not horrible for a barely-advertised $22 million movie, but Disney surely wanted it to perform better.<\/p>\n Three-week-old ‘Lucy<\/strong>‘ rounded out the Top 5 by adding another $9.3 million to its haul, which is now up to $97 million. By the end of the week, the insane sci-fi action movie will cross the $100 million mark.<\/p>\n The fifth picture in the ‘Step Up’ franchise debuted 44% lower than the fourth. Hopefully, the $6.5 million sixth place opening for ‘Step Up All In<\/strong>‘ will be the nail in this franchise’s coffin.<\/p>\n The documentary about James Cameron making his documentary ‘Aliens of the Deep’ sank at the box office. On 304 screens around the U.S., ‘James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D<\/strong>‘ only pulled in $150,900, which averages out to a mere $496 per screen.<\/p>\n Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan’s ‘What If<\/strong>‘ opened stronger than Cameron’s doc, but not as high as expected. From 20 locations, the indie romantic comedy nabbed $130,000 for a $6,500 per-screen average. It will be interesting to see how this one performs when it expands this weekend.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (Paramount) – $65,000,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ (Buena Vista) – $41,531,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Into the Storm’ (Warner Bros.) – $18,015,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’ (Buena Vista) – $11,123,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Lucy’ (Universal) – $9,331,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Step Up All In’ (Lionsgate) – $6,575,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Hercules’ (Paramount) – $5,700,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Get On Up’ (Universal) – $5,012,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ (Fox) – $4,400,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ (Buena Vista) – $2,419,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This weekend marks the second in a row for huge August debuts. Last week’s was due to consumer confidence in the Marvel brand and this week’s was due to nostalgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":64239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[178,7555,7205,7547,7548,7533,6000,7554],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64238"}],"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=64238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64304,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64238\/revisions\/64304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h2>\n