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92% Guardians of the Galaxy

20% Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

41% If I Stay

15% Let's Be Cops

18% When the Game Stands Tall
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43% Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

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‘Sin City 2′ Bombs at Friday Box Office, ‘Guardians′ Will Be Back on Top

“Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” was left battered and bruised on Friday at the domestic box office, while “Guardians of the Galaxy” will likely skyrocket back up top, eking out Friday’s victor “If I Stay” by Sunday.

The retro-noir, budgeted between $60 million and $70 million, came in sixth on Friday behind the sports drama “When the Game Stands Tall,” with $2.6 million. It’s on track for dismal $7 million this weekend — less than half the $15 million projected sum.

The sequel comes almost a decade after The Weinstein Co. stuck gold with the original pic. “Sin City” debuted to $29.1 million in 2005 on its way to a $74.1 million domestic total ($158.8 million worldwide). Nine years is evidently too long of a gap in between films for audiences, especially since the franchise no longer has critical support. This second installment earned a 43% fresh rating on the Rotten Tomatoes, while “Sin City” garnered 78%.

Robert Rodriguez’s second adaptation from Frank Miller’s graphic novel series brings back Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson while introducing several newcomers, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

“If I Stay” topped the charts on Friday with $6.8 million, but the YA tearjerker stands to fall to second place by weekend’s end. The pic is en route for an estimated $17.7 million, while “Guardians of the Galaxy” stands to gross $17.8 million.

The drama from Warner Bros./New Line and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — based on Gayle Forman’s hit novel of the same name — couldn’t cast quite the same weeping spell that bewitched the teen girl audience of “The Fault in Our Stars” earlier this summer. Despite its success, “If I Stay” won’t come close to the numbers scored by Fox’s “TFIOS,” an adaptation of John Green’s best-seller, which opened to a higher-than-anticipated $48 million in early June.

“If I Stay,” which marks R.J. Cutler’s feature directorial debut, centers on a teen (Chloë Grace Moretz) who falls in a coma after a car accident. She floats between life and death, and must decide whether to live and stay with her boyfriend, or die and join her family in an afterlife.

If estimates hold, “If I Stay” will outperform Moretz’s last two pics, Kimberly Peirce’s “Carrie” reimagining and Jeff Wadlow’s comedy actioner “Kick-Ass 2,” which debuted to $16.1 million in October 2013 and $13.3 million in August 2013, respectability.

The last new release, Sony’s sports drama “When the Game Stands Tall,” came in fifth behind “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Let’s Be Cops” ($3.2 million). The inspirational pic earned $3 million and looks to score just north of $9 million in its debut.

The movie is based on the true story of Bob Ladouceur (played by Jim Caviezel), the high school football coach behind a Northern California high school’s record-breaking 151-game winning streak.

Meanwhile, “Guardians of the Galaxy” shows no signs of slowing down on its way to becoming summer’s top domestic film. Disney-Marvel’s intergalactic pic made $4.8 million on Friday and is on track for $17.8 million in its fourth weekend. It crossed the $200 million mark last Friday and stands to gross $252 million by Sunday.

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[Blablurn]

Dem guardians. Wow.

 

[Mix Master]

James Gunn/Feige must be fucking proud

 

[kswiston]

Worldwide Updates:

Guardians of the Galaxy - $489M
Transformers Age of Extinction - $1.065B
Maleficent - $748M
Hercules - $161M
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $239M
Lucy - $227M

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Sin City might end up leaving first run theaters with less than 25 mil domestic.

 

[BLACKLAC]

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Guardians retaking the top spot with fewer screens than Turtles is very impressive.

Sucks for Sin City, but they really shouldn't have waited so long to capitalise on the first movies success.

 

[Error]

I can't believe TMNT is doing so well, it looked like absolute garbage. The turtles are just too strong of a brand, I guess.

movie was barely marketed iirc, basically Paramount had no expectations for it. No wonder they quickly green lighted a sequel.

 

[obin_gam]

I wonder what will happen the day a Marvel Studios movie bombs?

 

[AdventureRacing]

Seems like pretty good legs on guardian, glad it's doing well.

 

[TEJ]

 

[Nameless]

Dear all other films....

Well deserved.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

What the hell? 38% drop for Let's Be Cops? Pretty low drop isn't it?

 

[Akahige]

Holy shit at Sin City

 

[friskykillface]

the commercials have "take that ninja turtle" like a mash up
marvel/disney felt threatened x shook x sweatn' ;P

but the godians back on top

 

[Escape Goat]

Now they can stop playing that "THE #1 MOVIE IN AMERICA SO IT MEANS THIS MOVIE IS GOOD" commercial for TMNT.

 

[Ryaaan14]

I can't believe how badly they fucked up Sin City's marketing. I had to find out it was coming out last week on Lady Gaga's Facebook page. How do you even screw that up?

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Lets be cops made a tidy profit. Wow

 

[Mix Master]

And people said GOTG was going to flop

 

[RandyBobandy]

Maybe a sequel 9 years later wasn't the best idea

 

[kswiston]

Sin City might end up leaving first run theaters with less than 25 mil domestic.

You can probably just go ahead and change that to will be leaving first run theatres with less than $25M domestic. Distributors are going to dump it hard as soon as they can.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Worldwide Updates:

Guardians of the Galaxy - $489M
Transformers Age of Extinction - $1.065B
Maleficent - $748M
Hercules - $161M
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $239M
Lucy - $227M

Good grief at AoE.

 

[Escape Goat]

And people said GOTG was going to flop

GOTG wasn't exactly selling like hotcakes before the movie. Coupled with the fact nobody outside of comics knew who they were and its not exactly a crazy belief the movie would flop.

 

[Bornstellar]

Will consider a 5th viewing to cement my appreciation of these glad tidings.

 

[Member876]

So, is Michael Bay most profitable director ever?

Edit. Probably not since there is Spielberg, but he gotta be in top 3.

 

[sappyday]

It's been 4 weeks since GOTG came out? God it feels like it's been a couple of months already.

 

[Forkball]

SIN BOMBA. I think someone here on GAF said that it wouldn't even make $10 mil during its entire theatrical run. I thought that was ridiculous, but I guess he might be right. The first film opened at $30 mil and made about $160 mil worldwide. Not sure what happened here, I guess audience expectations have changed.

 

[Future Foundation]

Sin City might end up leaving first run theaters with less than 25 mil domestic.

I remember reading a Wizard Magazine (I know) from 2006 cover article about the future Sin City franchise. It sounded like there was a decent plan in place for the sequel(s): Angelina Jolie would likely do A Dame to Kill For, then they'd do Hell and Back for a possible third.


What happened? How/why did it take nine years for everything to come together?

 

[Chichikov]

So, is Michael Bay most profitable director ever?

Edit. Probably not, but he is getting there for sure.

Not even close.
He can have 4 more billion dollar grossing transformers abominations and he'll still be behind Spielberg.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

GOTG wasn't exactly selling like hotcakes before the movie. Coupled with the fact nobody outside of comics knew who they were and its not exactly a crazy belief the movie would flop.

yeah but it was poor reasoning

damn maleficent is making bank world wide...Disney on the whole...

Maleficent, Cap TWS, and GoTG alone...wow. Next up Star Wars and Avengers....omg its going to be insane.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Turtles wasnt that bad. Everything with the turtles themselves was pretty awesome.

 

[megamerican]

I wonder where Rodriguez goes from here. His last hit movie seems to have been the first Sin City. And while the Spy Kids movies were somewhat profitable, it looks like that franchise has also been run into the ground.

Saw TMNT yesterday and it was almost full. Nothing spectacular but definitely better than Rottentomatoes suggests it is.

 

[Escape Goat]

yeah but it was poor reasoning

damn maleficent is making bank world wide...Disney on the whole...

Maleficent, Cap TWS, and GoTG alone...wow. Next up Star Wars and Avengers....omg its going to be insane.

poor reasoning? The conclusion may have been incorrect but its solid logic.

 

[Member876]

Not even close.

Gotta be close. I mean Transformers saga prints money. He also made big hits in the 90s. He is no Spielberg but he has to be in top 3 or at least in top 5.

 

[djplaeskool]

God damn. Sin City...
Sub-$7MM opening weekend...

 

[Strictly]

I wonder what will happen the day a Marvel Studios movie bombs?

Spoiler

Please don't let itbe Black Panther

 

[dabig2]

Nice to see GotG pass that $250. Onwards to $300? Or will it stop short of that? I'm assuming holiday weekend next weekend should help it move towards that goal.

 

[Chamber]

Eva deserved better.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

Sin City :lol

So happy to see Guardians killin' it!

 

[Forkball]

More like A Dime to Kill For. Because Robert Rodriguez would kill for a dime. Because this movie made no money.

Someone help me out here.

 

[NotLiquid]

Called it that Guardians would be over TMNT this week. Dems some mighty legs.

I'd never be able to call that Sin City 2 and Expendables 3 would be two of this year's biggest bombs.

What the hell? 38% drop for Let's Be Cops? Pretty low drop isn't it?

It's a mid-range movie seeing some mid-range returns really. Not all too surprising.

 

[DieH@rd]

Worldwide Updates:

Guardians of the Galaxy - $489M
Transformers Age of Extinction - $1.065B
Maleficent - $748M
Hercules - $161M
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $239M
Lucy - $227M

I'm very much interested to see the final earnings for GOTG few months after it is launched in all countries.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

What happened? How/why did it take nine years for everything to come together?

Well, there were problems scheduling Jolie (she had a baby) and then there were problems scheduling Rodriguez, and throughout all that, Miller wasn't writing Sin City, he was flogging his two shitty Batman projects to death, resurrecting one (Holy Terror) so by the time Rodriguez finally came back around to being ready to do Sin City, it was like 6 or 7 years later. It still took another 2 years from that point to actually get this thing made.

What happens with Rodriguez? Nothing, probably.

Eva deserved better.

Than being in Sin City? She absolutely did. She also deserves better than an audience who only goes to her movies so they can finger their popcorn while gazing at her areolas.

I'd never be able to call that Sin City 2 and Expendables 3 would be two of this year's biggest bombs.

I did

 

[Tucah]

jesus christ sin city

Good for GotG.

 

[djplaeskool]

It's a mid-range movie seeing some mid-range returns really. Not all too surprising.

Tripling its budget is a pretty nice ROI.

 

[B.K.]

Slow weekend.

 

[Black Republican]

Spoiler

Please don't let itbe Black Panther

Spoiler

that or black widow

 

[Escape Goat]

Spoiler

that or black widow

BW isn't interesting enough to have her own. She'll be a sidekick in Cap movies until they retire the Cap franchise.

 

[DieH@rd]

Spoiler

that or black widow

That movie will earn shitton of money guaranteed. Just look what shitty "Lucy" managed to do.

BW isn't interesting enough to have her own. She'll be a sidekick in Cap movies until they retire the Cap franchise.

They can always make movie with her and Hawkeye going back to Russia to deal with her past that was hinted so many times. I would watch that.

 

[BLACKLAC]

BW isn't interesting enough to have her own. She'll be a sidekick in Cap movies until they retire the Cap franchise.

I doubt BW will be in Cap 3.