Tuorhoth Movies is back from it’s long-awaited return and we incredibly thrilled to return in time for Comic-Con (more on that soon) however that leaves us with two weeks worth of box-office to cover. So we’ll get to it with the results we’d usually of posted last week along with the predictions which we wrote at the time (honest).
US:
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Director: Matt Reeves – $73 million
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Michael Bay – $16.5 million
- Tammy – Ben Falcone – $12.9 million
- 22 Jump Street – Phil Lord, Chris Miller – $6.7 million
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois – $5.9 million
UK:
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Michael Bay – £11.8 million
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois – £7.8 million
- Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie – Ben Kellett – £1 million
- The Fault in Our Stars – Josh Boone – £0.6 million
- Begin Again – John Carney – £0.5 million
These results scored us 4/10, from last week’s predictions.
US:
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Matt Reeves
- The Purge: Anarchy – James DeMonaco
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Michael Bay
- Sex Tape – Jake Kasdan
- Tammy – Ben Falcone
UK:
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Matt Reeves
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Michael Bay
- How to Train Your Dragon – Dean DeBlois
- Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie – Ben Kellett
- The Fault in Our Stars – Josh Boone
With that out of the way, we can get to the main event of this week’s box (office) fresh results. Dawn of Apes’ mettle will be tested to the limit in its second weekend were it’ll face off with three new releases: action horror sequel The Purge: Anarchy; children’s animation Planes: Fire and Rescue and gross out comedy Sex Tape. Meanwhile in the UK, the Apes will receive their opening weekend just one week after the mammoth takings of both Transformers: Age of Extinction and How to Train Your Dragon 2. Let’s see how they got on.
US:
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Matt Reeves – $36.3 million
- The Purge: Anarchy – James DeMonaco – $29.8 million
- Planes: Fire and Rescue – Roberts Gannaway – $17.5 million
- Sex Tape – Jake Kasdan – $14.6 million
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Michael Bay – $9.8 million
UK:
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Matt Reeves – £8.7 million
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois – £2 million
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Michael Bay – £1.8 million
- Monty Python Live (Mostly) – Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman – £1.3 million
- Andre Rieu’s 10th Anniversary Concert Maastricht Concert – £0.8 million
Planet of the Apes has suffered a hefty 50% cut but we can still expect it to reach $500 million internationally while The Purge’s sequel should renew the obsession of micro budget horrors for another few years. Many are trying to diagnose Sex Tape’s financial thrashing but we wouldn’t trace it down to lead stars Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz (who’ve lead plenty of recent hits) but rather the poor marketing and title choice. In the UK two rare live events have graced the charts. It’s delightful to see Monty Python getting this kind of reception and these two are the first in the top 5 that I can remember since last November’s The Day of the Doctor.
US:
- Hercules – Brett Ratner
- Lucy – Luc Besson
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Matt Reeves
- The Purge: Anarchy – James DeMonaco
- Step Up All In – Trish Sie
UK:
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Matt Reeves
- Hercules – Brett Ratner
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois
- The Purge: Anarchy – James DeMonaco
- Transformers: Age of Extinction – Michael Bay
Toby Kebbell in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, this week’s UK and US number one
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