Released in 2005, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City not only became a cult hit, praised for its unique comic book styling, but raked in box office goods with $160 million from a $40 million budget. Nine years on, Miller and Rodriguez are back with Sin City’s sequel A Dame to Kill For with the first film’s ensemble of Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Powers Boothe and Bruce Willis as well as the huge additions of Joseph Gordon Levitt, Eva Green, Ray Liotta and Josh Brolin. The production cost has been upped to $70 million this time around so big things are expected for this film to lift the spirits of a relatively deadbeat summer. It ought to succeed seeing as the only heavyweights have been kicking around for nearly a month. Last week we predicted that it’d enter the chart in second but let’s find out where it did finish.
US:
- Guardians of the Galaxy – Director: James Gunn – $17.2 million
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Jonathan Liebesman – $16.7 million
- If I Stay – RJ Cutler – $15.7 million
- Let’s Be Cops – Luke Greenfield – $10.8 million
- When the Game Stands Tall – Thomas Carter – $8.4 million
UK:
- Lucy – Luc Besson – £3.1 million
- The Inbetweeners 2 – Damon Beesley, Iain Morris – £2.4 million
- Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn – £1.3 million
- Into the Storm – Steven Quale – £1.2 million
- Deliver Us From Evil – Scott Derickson – £0.6 million
That’s right, Sin City 2 didn’t scratch the top 5 and in fact landed in eighth and will have to go down as perhaps the year’s biggest mainstream flop. It was beaten into submission by teen weepie If I Stay and sports drama When the Game Stands Tall. It’s R/18 rating may have been its undoing. Marvel’s space opera Guardians of the Galaxy is back on top of the box office in its fourth week of release, a new property overtaking behemoth sequel Transformers: Age of Extinction to become the biggest domestic hit of the summer. Sci-fi thriller Lucy has made a solid entry in a packed week in the UK. Disaster thriller Into the Storm and horror Deliver Us From Evil both made mediocre debuts while Daniel Radcliffe rom com What If failed to chart. This week’s shocks meant I scored a dismal 3/10.
US:
- The November Man – Roger Donaldson
- Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn
- As Above So Below – John Erick Dowdle
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Jonthan Liebesman
- If I Stay – RJ Cutler
UK:
- Lucy – Luc Besson
- The Inbetweeners 2 – Damon Beesley, Iain Morris
- Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
- Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn
- Let’s Be Cops – Luke Greenfield
Zoe Saldana and Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy, this week’s US number one.
Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, this week’s UK number one.
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