{"id":71024,"date":"2015-07-06T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=71024"},"modified":"2015-07-06T07:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:48:03","slug":"weekend-box-office-jul-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/weekend-box-office-jul-6-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: Baby, You&#8217;re a Firework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth consecutive week, &#8216;Jurassic World&#8217; held off the competition and retained the top spot at the box office. However, Pixar&#8217;s &#8216;Inside Out&#8217; and the fifth &#8216;Terminator&#8217; flick came close to dethroning it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the holiday weekend&#8217;s $30.9 million draw, &#8216;<strong>Jurassic World<\/strong>&#8216; now sits with a domestic total of $558.1 million, making it the fastest title to cross the $550 million mark. When you add that to its $826.9 million oversea total, the dino sequel now sits with $1.38 billion, passing &#8216;Avengers: Age of Ultron&#8217; and currently residing in as the fifth highest-grossing movie of all time. If it can make another $127 million, it will pass &#8216;Furious 7&#8217; and land in the #4 spot. If it can make another $134 million, it will pass &#8216;The Avengers&#8217; and rank #3 of all time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Inside Out<\/strong>&#8216; closed the weekend just behind &#8216;Jurassic&#8217;, but could very easily top it when the weekend actuals are announced later today. The third week of its run yielded another $30.1 million that raised its domestic total up to $246.1 million. As its international roll-out continues, the Pixar picture now sits with a worldwide total of $363.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>While the &#8216;Jurassic&#8217; franchise is thriving four-movies in, the &#8216;Terminator&#8217; franchise is having a hard time finding its audience. &#8216;<strong>Terminator Genisys<\/strong>&#8216; opened to only $28.7 million. Thanks to a Wednesday start, it sits with a five-day total of $44.1 million. The $155 million movie is going to need to hold over very well in order to be profitable domestically. Luckily for the series&#8217; new distributor Paramount, overseas audiences were more eager to see Arnold Schwarzenegger back in action. The film&#8217;s foreign draw pulled in $85.5 million, giving it a worldwide total to-date of $129.6 million. As of now, two more sequels are still planned for the next two summers. Whether that will actually happen is dependent on how &#8216;Genisys&#8217; finishes. <\/p>\n<p>While the numbers for &#8216;Terminator&#8217; may appear low, they&#8217;re nothing compared to &#8216;<strong>Magic Mike XXL<\/strong>&#8216;. While the first &#8216;Magic Mike&#8217; opened to $39.1 million, the sequel was only able to reel in a fraction of that. From 3,355 screens, the male stripper flick grossed $11.6 million, or a measly $3,458 per-screen. The upside for Warner Bros. is that &#8216;XXL&#8217; is said to have been made for just $15 million. Once the international release really gets rolling, &#8216;Mike&#8217; shouldn&#8217;t have any trouble becoming profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the Top 5 was Seth MacFarlane&#8217;s comedy sequel &#8216;<strong>Ted 2<\/strong>&#8216;, which is also having a hard time finding its ground. The second week suffered a brutal 67% drop-off in attendance. The $11 million brought its ten-day total up to $58.3 million. Combined with $36 million earned overseas, &#8216;Ted 2&#8217; has earned a worldwide total of $94.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian flick &#8216;<strong>Faith of our Fathers<\/strong>&#8216; had a very rough start. Kicking off on 344 screens, the faith-based movie earned just $433,000 a painfully low $1,259 per-screen average.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Amy<\/strong>&#8216;, on the other hand, had a fantastic six-screen debut. Distributed by A24, the documentary opened to $222,000. With a stellar per-screen average of $37,000, its release is likely to expand in the very near future.<\/p>\n<h2>Top 10:<\/h2>\n<p>1. &#8216;Jurassic World&#8217; (Universal) &#8211; $30,900,000<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8216;Inside Out&#8217; (Buena Vista) &#8211; $30,105,000<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8216;Terminator: Genisys&#8217; (Paramount) &#8211; $28,700,000<\/p>\n<p>4. &#8216;Magic Mike XXL&#8217; (Warner Bros.) &#8211; $11,600,000<\/p>\n<p>5. &#8216;Ted 2&#8217; (Universal) &#8211; $11,000,000<\/p>\n<p>6. &#8216;Max&#8217; (Warner Bros.) &#8211; $6,610,000<\/p>\n<p>7. &#8216;Spy&#8217; (Fox) &#8211; $5,500,000<\/p>\n<p>8. &#8216;San Andreas&#8217; (Warner Bros.) &#8211; $3,030,000<\/p>\n<p>9. &#8216;Me and Earl and the Dying Girl&#8217; (Fox Searchlight) &#8211; $1,320,000<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8216;Dope&#8217; (Open Road) &#8211; $1,098,000<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth consecutive week, &#8216;Jurassic World&#8217; held off the competition and retained the top spot at the box office. 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