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rottenwatch box office:

66% The Expendables 2

55% The Bourne Legacy

87% ParaNorman

66% The Campaign

87% The Dark Knight Rises
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75% Premium Rush
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45% Hit & Run
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00% The Apparition

metacritic box office:





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'Expendables' wins soft weekend; '2016' drops to No. 7. Actioner earns $13.5 mil as conservative docu trails holdovers with $6.3 mil

Lionsgate's "The Expendables 2," with an estimated $13.5 million, won Stateside B.O. bragging rights for its second weekend, lifting the pic's domestic cume to $52.3 million.

"Expendables" beat a trio of low-profile wide releases -- as did politically polarizing docu "2016: Obama's America," though the film, at just north of $6.3 million, fell behind a crush of holdovers to land at No. 7 through Sunday. The docu, which expanded to 1,091 locations this weekend, ranked third on Friday, but struggled to maintain stamina as the weekend progressed.

Sony's bicycle thriller "Premium Rush" delivered a modest -- but expected -- $6.3 million in three day, while Open Road's R-rated comedy "Hit and Run" bowed to $4.7 million, with $5.9 million in five days.

Warner Bros., meanwhile, punted Dark Castle's "The Apparition," launching the film at just 810 locations where it collected a meager $3 million.

At the specialty B.O., IFC's "Sleepwalk With Me" broke a house record at New York's IFC Center, estimating an outstanding $65,000. Pic stands as the theater's best per-screen debut for a non-animated American feature from a first-time director (Mike Birbiglia). The film, which is based on Birbiglia's one-man comedy show, expands Friday to the top 20 U.S. markets.​

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[Kusagari]

And the Obama movie doesn't even make top 5.

lol

Looks like Expendables 2 has no chance at 100m either.

 

[Count Dookkake]

lol at TOTAL REMAKE.

It is now 20 million behind the original.

 

[Cheebo]

lol I remember conservatives were predicting that dumb racist Obama movie was going to be as big as Fahrenheit 9/11

 

[Surface of Me]

Holy shit at Hit and Run's budget. Also I knew Premium Rush was gonna bomb hard from the very first trailer.

 

[badcrumble]

It has been such a pleasure this year to watch the truly bad movies bombing left and right.

 

[Diprosalic]

any word on TDKR and Spidys china opening?

 

[KissVibes]

Premium Rush :lol

Nobody wanted to see Quicksilver again, Sony.

 

[Diprosalic]

seems like dax and his waifu took an all backend deal on that one.

 

[BatDan]

Dat Total Recall bomb. Maybe this will scare Sony into halting the RoboCop remake, or any other remakes they have planned.

Hit & Run only cost $2 million? Jeez! Who made it? *checks* Oh, Dax Shepard. Probably got the cast to do it as a personal favor.

 

[dmshaposv]

It has been such a pleasure this year to watch the truly bad movies bombing left and right.

But avengers and tdkr made more than $400 million.

Spoiler

/Neogaf: where everything sucks

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Premium Rush :lol

Nobody wanted to see Quicksilver again, Sony.

The Kevin Bacon movie?

 

[Diprosalic]

Hit & Run only cost $2 million? Jeez! Who made it? *checks* Oh, Dax Shepard. Probably got the cast to do it as a personal favor.

well he wrote it, co-direcred it and he and his wife are the protagonists so there you go.

 

[B.K.]

When I saw that title, I thought they had released Raiders of the Lost Ark a couple weeks early.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

Wow, what a slow week. The Total Recall remake bombed hard, The Bourne Legacy isn't doing so great either, and it's starting to look like TDKR won't make it to 450m (or at least will struggle).

Disappointing week overall.

 

[Slurmer]

Dat Total Recall bomb. Maybe this will scare Sony into halting the RoboCop remake, or any other remakes they have planned..

Paul Verhoeven remakes...not a huge draw. Who knew?

 

[Magilla]

The Hit and Run trailer was so horrible. It was a 3 minute long prison rape joke. It was incredibly unfunny. I'm glad the movie is bombing.

 

[JavyOO7]

CHEMS

 

[KissVibes]

The Kevin Bacon movie?

Yeah.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

What a miserable weekend.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

It has been such a pleasure this year to watch the truly bad movies bombing left and right.

At least one aspect of this summers movie releases hasn't been disappointing.

 

[tuffy]

What a miserable weekend.

No kidding. The summer movie season is ending and all that's left are sad weekend totals.

 

[The Mana Legend]

Man, Expendables 2 underperforming really sucks. I really doubt there will be an Expendables 3 at this point unless the International totals are gigantic.

If they do an Expendables 3, they'd better release it in June. Get that Summer fever crowd that'll see anything in the theaters.

 

[Montresor]

The Hit and Run trailer was so horrible. It was a 3 minute long prison rape joke. It was incredibly unfunny. I'm glad the movie is bombing.

Well good thing for them that the movie's low budget has already allowed Hit and Run to be profitable.

 

[MrPink93485]

Well good thing for them that the movie's low budget has already allowed Hit and Run to be profitable.

They spent 20 million on marketing apparently. Probably not getting that back

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

I went to see batman again last night and I was surprised that it was a close to sell-out crowd. I was expecting to be one of the only people there.

 

[Escape Goat]

Premium Bomb is more like it amirite

 

[Count Dookkake]

Premium Rush to the dollar theater.

 

[U2NUMB]

lol I remember conservatives were predicting that dumb racist Obama movie was going to be as big as Fahrenheit 9/11

It was in less than half the theaters of those above it so it is not a stretch to say if it had been in the same number as the top movies it might have taken this week.

 

[tuffy]

It was in less than half the theaters of those above it so it is not a stretch to say if it had been in the same number as the top movies it might have taken this week.

It's possible, but the per-theater average isn't likely to stay constant when doubling the theater count.

These kinds of hyper-partisan films are aimed at telling a very specific audience exactly what they want to hear, so I don't think they'll scale to any sort of wide release.

 

[ezekial45]

I feel bad for JGL, he deserves to be a big draw. Hopefully Looper will fair better.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

NICE ONE BIRBS!!!

 

[Starsunder]

I haven't seen it yet, but I really enjoy the OG Expendables (bought it on blu-ray yesterday in fact) and was hoping this one would be good/perform well.

 

[Jimothy]

Premium Rush was fun. Deserves better than the fucking Expendables.

 

[Count Dookkake]

I haven't seen it yet, but I really enjoy the OG Expendables (bought it on blu-ray yesterday in fact) and was hoping this one would be good/perform well.

You are part of the problem!

Get to it.

 

[Endo Punk]

That reminds me I still need to see expendables 2.

 

[Carbonox]

Got back from seeing The Expendables 2 earlier. I enjoyed it. Had a big grin on my face the entire time. Van Damme <3

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Premium Rush was fun. Deserves better than the fucking Expendables.

Not according to the movie going public.

But we thank you for your opinion.

 

[Starsunder]

You are part of the problem!

Get to it.

Word. This week!

 

[Meatpuppet]

I haven't seen it yet, but I really enjoy the OG Expendables (bought it on blu-ray yesterday in fact) and was hoping this one would be good/perform well.

Saw the Expendables 2 yesterday, as well as TDKR. I enjoyed both, though possibly more so the Expendables than TDKR. Maggie aside I felt it was a big improvement on the first one.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

They spent 20 million on marketing apparently. Probably not getting that back

There have been commercials non fucking stop so I'm sure they spent a good amount. Fuck that movie. I can't stand when they just flood TV with commercials for something like that. It makes me despise the movie.

 

[Surface of Me]

I feel bad for JGL, he deserves to be a big draw. Hopefully Looper will fair better.

I don't give a shit who is leading if the movie's premise looks terrible. Looper will fair far better no doubt, but it also has Willis.

 

[blind51de]

I feel bad for JGL, he deserves to be a big draw. Hopefully Looper will fair better.

I've got a good feeling about it. It's not as though he's standing alone, with Willis on it.
No amount of patronizing can make me claim Expendables 2 was more exciting than Premium Rush. Go on, burble another quip to do with Quicksilver.

 

[twinturbo2]

lol I remember conservatives were predicting that dumb racist Obama movie was going to be as big as Fahrenheit 9/11

I need the guys at Daily Kos to do a Rifftrax on that shit STAT.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

I don't give a shit who is leading if the movie's premise looks terrible. Looper will fair far better no doubt, but it also has Willis.

Yeah, I love me some JGL, but no amount of good reviews could get me to see that dumb looking movie.

 

[jett]

batbomba

 

[See You Next Wednesday]

I don't give a shit who is leading if the movie's premise looks terrible. Looper will fair far better no doubt, but it also has Willis.

Ugh, The movie where Young Bruce Willis needs to decide if he wants to kill his future self or not.


I predict bomb.

 

[Count Dookkake]

LOOPER: The movie that asks, why not send these guys into a volcano or the bottom of the ocean?

 

[effzee]

I always wanted to ask but never got around to it, but how do Sunday numbers get calculated before the day is over?

 

[MrPink93485]

I always wanted to ask but never got around to it, but how do Sunday numbers get calculated before the day is over?

I think it's just based on historical factors, whether it's previous Sunday performances, or correlating it to a similar film in a previous year. Sundays around this time typically drop about 30%, though depending on genre it may be a harsher drop or softer and they extrapolate from that basically. The way it's performed throughout the weekend is a factor as well.