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rottenwatch box office:
66% Elysium
41% We're the Millers
24% Planes
31% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
61% 2 Guns
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Box Office: Sonys Elysium Struggles to Break Elite Barrier, With $30 Mil Bow. 'We're the Millers,' 'Planes' each gross solid $20 mil-plus three-day openings
Like its characters fighting for a piece of elite status, Sonys sixth release this summer, Elysium, fought for box office glory but the $115 million-budgeted sci-fi actioner fell somewhat short, grossing a just-OK $30.5 million domestic opening.
Elysium played well to its core under-25 male demo, though the Matt Damon-Jodie Foster starrer received a less-than-enthusiastic B CinemaScore rating. Sony needed the film to start out strongly to pave an easier path toward profitability, which now seems iffy. Yet, the struggling studio also was relying on Elysium to help improve its image after what has been an overall underwhelming summer for Sony.
There still is hope for Elysium overseas, however. The film bowed day-and-date only in a handful of markets, including Russia, with $6.8 million. The remaining major territories are slated to bow over the next several weeks.
While Sonys status was left relatively unchanged this weekend, Warner Bros. Toby Emmerich-led New Line division scored its second summer box office hit, with R-rated comedy Were the Millers grossing $26.6 million Friday-Sunday, for an estimated $38 million in five days. New Line struggled earlier this year with flops Jack the Giant Slayer and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, but turned the tide, thanks to low-budgeted pics, Millers and The Conjuring, which crossed $120 million in its fourth frame.
Totals from the competitive weekend which saw two other wide releases with Disneys Planes, earning $22.5 million in three days, and Foxs Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, with $23.5 million in five came in nearly 15% ahead of this time last year.
At the specialty box office, Sony Pictures Classics successfully expanded Woody Allens Blue Jasmine to 119 theaters, where it earned $2.5 million for a Stateside cume of $6.2 million and counting.
And Roadside Attractions bowed this weekend its Sundance pick-up In a Better World, which averaged a strong $23,660 from three locations in New York and L.A. The comedy expands next weekend to the top eight domestic markets.
Like its characters fighting for a piece of elite status, Sonys sixth release this summer, Elysium, fought for box office glory but the $115 million-budgeted sci-fi actioner fell somewhat short, grossing a just-OK $30.5 million domestic opening.
Elysium played well to its core under-25 male demo, though the Matt Damon-Jodie Foster starrer received a less-than-enthusiastic B CinemaScore rating. Sony needed the film to start out strongly to pave an easier path toward profitability, which now seems iffy. Yet, the struggling studio also was relying on Elysium to help improve its image after what has been an overall underwhelming summer for Sony.
There still is hope for Elysium overseas, however. The film bowed day-and-date only in a handful of markets, including Russia, with $6.8 million. The remaining major territories are slated to bow over the next several weeks.
While Sonys status was left relatively unchanged this weekend, Warner Bros. Toby Emmerich-led New Line division scored its second summer box office hit, with R-rated comedy Were the Millers grossing $26.6 million Friday-Sunday, for an estimated $38 million in five days. New Line struggled earlier this year with flops Jack the Giant Slayer and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, but turned the tide, thanks to low-budgeted pics, Millers and The Conjuring, which crossed $120 million in its fourth frame.
Totals from the competitive weekend which saw two other wide releases with Disneys Planes, earning $22.5 million in three days, and Foxs Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, with $23.5 million in five came in nearly 15% ahead of this time last year.
At the specialty box office, Sony Pictures Classics successfully expanded Woody Allens Blue Jasmine to 119 theaters, where it earned $2.5 million for a Stateside cume of $6.2 million and counting.
And Roadside Attractions bowed this weekend its Sundance pick-up In a Better World, which averaged a strong $23,660 from three locations in New York and L.A. The comedy expands next weekend to the top eight domestic markets.
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