{"id":64797,"date":"2014-09-08T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=64797"},"modified":"2014-09-08T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:46:51","slug":"boxoffice-sept-8-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-sept-8-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: I Am Groot"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year has been unimpressive at the box office, and that trend continued this weekend with the lowest collective grosses in two years.
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With only one barely-advertised new wide release, the majority of the Top 10 is unchanged from last week.<\/p>\n

‘Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong>‘ remained in the top spot with $10.1 million in its sixth week, for a domestic total of $294.5 million. Within another week, it will become the only movie to cross the $300 million threshold so far in 2014. If it can pass $318 million (which is likely), it will out-gross the original ‘Iron Man<\/a>‘. Overseas, ‘Guardians’ now sits with $291.6 million and still has three more major markets to break into.<\/p>\n

Still in the #2 spot is ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/strong>‘ with another $6.5 million. The lack of new worthwhile competition has allowed the five-week-old reboot to accumulate $174.6 million domestically. Overseas, it’s now at $125.6 million.<\/p>\n

‘If I Stay<\/strong>‘ stayed in the #3 spot, which is exactly where it opened three weeks ago. Its $5.7 million weekend raises its 17-day total to $39.6 million.<\/p>\n

Four-week-old ‘Let’s Be Cops<\/strong>‘ jumped back into the #4 spot (it closed out last weekend in fifth place) with $5.4 million. To date, the comedy has earned $66.5 million.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the Top 5 was last weekend’s flop ‘The November Man<\/strong>‘, which actually jumped up a spot from its debut weekend. The film’s $4.2 million second weekend gives it a ten-day total of $17.8 million.<\/p>\n

The only new wide release of the weekend, ‘The Identical<\/strong>‘, couldn’t crack the Top 10. Independent distribution company Freestyle Releasing hoped to follow the success of its last faith-based movie, ‘God’s Not Dead’, but that’s obviously not in the cards for this one. From 1,956 screens, the PG drama only grossed $1.9 million, giving it a per-screen average of just $977.<\/p>\n

The IMAX-exclusive 20th anniversary re-release of ‘Forrest Gump<\/strong>‘ didn’t have nearly the success of last weekend’s ‘Ghostbusters’ reissue nor 2012’s ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’. ‘Gump’ was only able to bring in $405,000 from 337 IMAX locations, for a per-screen average of $1,202.<\/p>\n

Much-buzzed indie musical ‘God Help the Girl<\/strong>‘ had a decent two-screen debut that resulted in $12,800, but there’s been no word on when, how or if the film’s release will be expanded.<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h2>\n

1. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ (Buena Vista) – $10,160,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (Paramount) – $6,500,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘If I Stay’ (Warner Bros.) – $5,750,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Let’s Be Cops’ (Fox) – $5,400,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘The November Man’ (Relativity) – $4,200,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘As Above So Below’ (Universal) – $3,723,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘When the Game Stands Tall’ (TriStar) – $3,700,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘The Giver’ (Weinstein) – $3,591,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’ (Buena Vista) – $3,200,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘Lucy’ (Universal) – $1,950,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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