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Monday Box Office Report – Cowabunga!

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With the Guardians having easily conquered the box office last week, it was time for some fresh faces to emerge and take a chance. Several contenders hit the big screen at the North American Box office, from ninja turtles to Twister re-imaginings. Here’s who came out on top.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

Clearly, box office fatigue has yet to set in, because the half-shell heroes took first spot from Guardians Of The Galaxy. At number one with $65 million come the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That’s way up – when un-adjusted for inflation – on the 1990 original movie ($25 million) and the 2007 CGI movie ($24.2 million).

Into The Storm debuted at third place, with the tornado movie making a modest $18 million. It could probably have done better if there were some manner of carnivorous aquatic sea-life in the hurricane itself. Arthouse fare The Hundred Foot Journey took fourth place with over $11 million, while the latest all-star version of Step Up failed to capture the box office thanks to a total haul of $6.5 million that is way behind the opening debut of Step Up Revolution ($11.7 million). Here’s how everyone else did.

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – $65 Million
  • Guardians Of The Galaxy – $41.5 Million
  • Into The Storm – $18 Million
  • The Hundred Foot Journey – $11.1 Million
  • Lucy – $9.3 Million
  • Step Up All In – $6.5 Million
  • Hercules – $5.7 Million
  • Get On Up – $5 Million
  • Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes – $4.4 Million
  • Planes: Fire And Rescue – $2.4 Million

Top ten departures this week include The Purge Anarchy, And So It Goes, Sex Tape and Boyhood. Clearly in need of a performance enhancer, limp comedy Sex Tape barely managed to make $54 million worldwide, while And So It Goes barely survived three weeks in the top ten before it scuttled off with $13.2 million. The Purge: Anarchy may have been slightly less successful than the first film in that series, but it still managed to make a decent $87 million off of a $9 million budget. And that’s a helluva profit, any way you slice it.

Last Updated: August 11, 2014

8 Comments

  1. I’m glad Turtles has done well. From what comments I’ve read it’s a fun movie for the kids & the people who hated before watching it still do because they value commitment.

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    • Rince

      August 11, 2014 at 11:57

      Lulz. I’ve read mixed reports on ‘us’ oldies liking it…

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    • Rince

      August 11, 2014 at 11:57

      Lulz. I’ve read mixed reports on ‘us’ oldies liking it…

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    • Kromas of City17

      August 11, 2014 at 12:00

      Can’t I hate it just because I feel old?

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    • James Francis

      August 11, 2014 at 13:10

      Same here. I’m ignoring online opinions because it is so hard to get objective ones. Often movies that are not so bad tend to get beaten up by armchair critics and I’m wondering if this is what happened to TMNT. That said, if the trailers sold a different film to me than the real thing, I will be disappointed. Reports about the missing ‘fun’ side of the turtles concern me.

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      • Kervyn Cloete

        August 11, 2014 at 13:53

        Liebesman (and Bay of course), tends to attract critic pile-ons, it seems. Liebesman is a bit of journeyman. The type of guy you hire when you don’t so much want some great director’s vision, but you want your movie to hit all it’s budget and scheduling marks spot on. The stuff he produces (like Battle L.A.) is not high-art cinema by a long shot, and in a directorial lineup, you’d be very pressed to pick his “generic” action shooting out of the crowd, but that doesn’t mean his movies are completely meritless, like some bandwagoning critics tend to claim.
        I have a strong suspicion that there are things about TMNT that are probably going to piss me off, but I’m sure that there are probably other parts that I will enjoy. This wholesale writing-off though bothers me.

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        • James Francis

          August 11, 2014 at 14:35

          If it is as good as the first Transformers, I’ll be happy. Sure, Transfomers wasn’t great, but it was fun and slick. I still enjoy watching it. If TMNT has that, then I’m happy and I’ll only rag the sequels – which will inevitably suck 🙂

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  2. DarthZA

    August 11, 2014 at 12:26

    I watched Guardians for a third time, was even better than the second time…

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