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Wkd Box Office 08•15-17•14 - turtle power, E3 bomba, no takers for the giver

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19% Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
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92% Guardians of the Galaxy
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11% Let's Be Cops
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35% The Expendables 3
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30% The Giver

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‘Expendables 3′ Fumbles with $16.2 Million, ‘Ninja Turtles’ Tops Charts

“The Expendables 3″ looked like a franchise that needs to be put out to pasture after the latest film in the action junkie series debuted to a scrawny $16.2 million this weekend, according to studio estimates.

“Expendables'” lack of muscle allowed “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” to retain the box office crown it wore last weekend. Paramount Pictures’ reboot of the reptile martial artists series grabbed first place on the charts with $28.4 million in its sophomore weekend. That brings its domestic total to $117.6 million.

Another holdover, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” scored runner-up status. The comic book adaptation pulled in $24.7 million, driving its total domestic box office to $222.3 million. It looks like it will end up as the summer’s top grossing domestic release, passing “Transformers: Age of Extinction’s” $243.3 million haul.

“Expendables 3’s” opening was a low-point for Sylvester Stallone’s geriatric heroes on a mission pictures. The original film launched to $34.8 million in 2010 while the second installment debuted to $28.6 in 2012. Audiences may have grown tired of watching AARP members with guns, even if the producers excavated a few new aging Reagan-era stars in the form of Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson.

It’s been nearly a decade since Indiana Jones and Martin Riggs opened a picture, but “The Expendables 3″ may also have been hurt by piracy. Three weeks before the film hit theaters, a leaked copy was downloaded 189,000 times through piracy sites.

Lionsgate, which is distributing the film in North America, did not release a budget, but if Stallone and company want to get into profitable terrain, they’ll need to do so overseas where audiences have fonder memories of “Cliffhanger” and Jason Statham is next to godliness. Millennium backed the picture.

Stateside, the film debuted in 3,221 theaters and attracted an audience that was 61% male and 66% over the age of 25. Those who saw it liked it, apparently, rewarding it was an A- CinemaScore rating. The older crowds could bode well for the picture, according to Lionsgate President of Domestic Distribution Richie Fay.

“Our audience being older has a tendency to come out at their own pace,” he argued. “They’re not driven by publicity to get out on the first weekend. They’re less impulsive. It’s going to be a profitable movie for Lionsgate, one that continues to play.”

“Expendables” sputtered out, but “Let’s Be Cops” did solid business. The low-budget, $17 million R-rated comedy from Twentieth Century Fox snagged $17.7 million this weekend in 3,094 locations, and has made $26.1 million since it premiered on Tuesday.

“My take away? Audiences want to laugh,” said Chris Aronson, Fox’s distribution chief. “Any time you can gross more than your budget in three days is pretty cool.”

Going into the weekend, some analysts expected the picture to perform even more strongly, possibly passing $20 million for the weekend, but the critics were savage, which likely held down numbers slightly.

The film, which pokes fun at boys in blue, arrived while a real life law enforcement controversy played out in Ferguson, Mo., where the shooting death of an unarmed 18-year old by police led to protests. Aronson said there was no impact on “Let’s Be Cops'” box office, noting that art didn’t really imitate life in this case.

“As unfortunate as that situation is, audiences aren’t making a connection,” said Aronson. “This is a flat-out farce.”

It counts as a win for Fox, in a summer filled with them — one that’s seen the releases of “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” which danced past $200 million domestically this weekend.

The weekend’s other wide release, “The Giver,” took in a middling $12.8 million over 3,003 locations. The Weinstein Company backed the $25-million budgeted film, which adapts Lois Lowry’s widely-read futuristic novel.

The studio had expected the film to debut in the mid-teens and was disappointed by the results. “The Giver” brought in a crowd that was two-thirds female, and 53% under the age of 25. It played particularly well to girls under the age of 17.

“For its core demo, they really like it,” said Erik Lomis, The Weinstein’s Company’s head of theatrical distribution. “Young girls go crazy for it and we’ve had a lot of success in middle America. When the dust settles, the movie will find its audience.”

“The Hundred-Foot Journey” barely registered last weekend, when the news was all about “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'” box office dominance, but the dueling chefs drama has some impressive legs. The film dropped a mere 35% in its second weekend, picking up $7.1 million and pushing its domestic tally to $23.6 million.

In art house news, “The Trip to Italy” opened on three screens, picking up $71,577 for a strong $23,859 per screen average. The film reunites gastronomic travelers Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, who memorably unveiled dueling Michael Caine impressions in 2010’s “The Trip,” but substitutes pasta for British cuisine this go round. Probably a good thing for those with a more refined palate, though no offense to bangers and mash aficionados.

Sony Pictures Classics expanded “Magic in the Moonlight” from 170 to 964 screens, picking up $1.9 million in the process. The Woody Allen confection has now made $4.7 million after four weeks in theaters. IFC’s “Boyhood” keeps chugging along. The 12-years in the making indie picked up $2.1 million, bringing its total after six weeks to $13.8 million.

The overall box office was relatively flat with the same weekend a year ago, when “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” debuted and became a surprise hit.
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kswiston

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Worldwide updates:

22 Jump Street - $304M
Maleficent - $743M
Guardians of the Galaxy - $419M
Lucy - $169M
Neighbours - $265M

HTTYD2 is making big money in China with a $26M opening there
 
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Hamlet

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Looks like going PG-13 didn't exactly work out for The Expendables, doesn't help also that the film is apparently not that great.
Should be interesting if oversea grosses saves it again like the previous film.
 
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CREMSteve

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xaosslug said:
yeah, didn't a screener copy leak, like, a month ago? smh
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Yeah, having your entire film leak a month prior to release isn't exactly good for business. I certainly wouldn't suggest that the franchise needs to be retired because of it.

The movie was good, I'd like more of them.
 
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Wafflecakes

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kurahador said:
China loves them dragons.
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First one kind of flopped there, but Dreamworks has invested a lot in China over the last few years including amusement parks and opening an animation studio. This was mainly due to a backlash over the popularity of Kung Fu Panda, and an American company repackaging their culture and selling it back to them.

It has earned them a fair bit of good will.
 
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NotLiquid

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Disastrous performance for Expendables. Kind of glad in a way. It'll be blamed on the leak and it obviously played a part, but personally I just hope they take this wasted potential of a franchise and start anew.

TMNT will probably fall below Guardians next week.
 
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starchild excalibur

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The leak may have hurt Ex3, but I doubt it would have done great numbers even without it. The second made more than the first WW, but less domestically. Having seen the first two in theaters and being let down twice, the third one holds no appeal to me. Especially after seeing better done action films over the past couple of years.
 
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Sephzilla

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I saw Expendables 3 this weekend and it succeeded in being a really dumb action movie, but it was still just a really dumb action movie. Also, who had the bright idea of trying to introduce a new younger group of Expendables in a movie that's supposed to be about a bunch of old action movie heroes being in the same movie?

It's better than Expendables 2, which doesn't say much. Neither sequel has matched the Terry Crews shotgun scene either.
 
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Calamari41

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Kabuki Waq said:
Expendables 2 being complete shit hurt the movie more than the leak.

Thats the reason I didnt bother watching it.
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Yeah, I was a legit fan of the first movie. They had me all-in on the franchise after that, but the second was so boring to me that I never even entertained the idea of seeing the third. I can't imagine we're the only ones. They can't blame piracy for this one, they can only blame themselves.
 
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BattleMonkey

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All my buddies who all loved the expendables movie already had downloaded the movie, pretty sad. The movies don't make huge bucks but when your fans are getting the movie online a month early....

Series has done good overseas always though, wonder if the leak will hurt that worse.
 
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Tucah

you speak so well
Not surprised Expendables did poorly - between the leak and the fact the movie's apparently pretty bad it didn't really have a lot going for it.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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CREMSteve said:
Yeah, having your entire film leak a month prior to release isn't exactly good for business. I certainly wouldn't suggest that the franchise needs to be retired because of it.

The movie was good, I'd like more of them.
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It's not bad for business, either.

The movie didn't fail because a screener leaked. It failed because nobody involved managed to get anyone to care that it was coming out.

Hell, from what I can tell, it wasn't even downloaded all that much, considering.
 
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G-Fex

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BobbyRoberts said:
It's not bad for business, either.

The movie didn't fail because a screener leaked. It failed because nobody involved managed to get anyone to care that it was coming out.

Hell, from what I can tell, it wasn't even downloaded all that much, considering.
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Ouch.

That has to hurt
 
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Slayven

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BobbyRoberts said:
It's not bad for business, either.

The movie didn't fail because a screener leaked. It failed because nobody involved managed to get anyone to care that it was coming out.

Hell, from what I can tell, it wasn't even downloaded all that much, considering.
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Damn that is cold.
 
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AgentOtaku

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Kabuki Waq said:
Expendables 2 being complete shit hurt the movie more than the leak.

Thats the reason I didnt bother watching it.
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Seriously.... I think this is honestly one of those cases that the general audience themselves knows these films arent good and finally stopped going.
 
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mreddie

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Damon Wayans Jr., Chris Pratt, Batista, Johnny Knoxville and Megan Fox bested Sly, Arnold, Mel and Jeff Bridges.

We are though the looking glass, people.
 
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