Sunday, July 28, 2013

How Much? Box Office Results- July 26-28

It's Sunday, and that means its time for the Results portion of the weekly How Much? Box Office game!
The Wolverine made a splash at the box office compared to other films this weekend, but compared to the X-Men series as a whole it was slightly underwhelming. I do think that it means good things, however, for X-Men: Days of Future Past that this film received an A- Cinemascore. The people who saw it liked it and will most likely come back for a second helping in 2014 when the X-Men are reunited. Despicable Me 2 crossed the $300 million mark domestically, which is a huge milestone. The Conjuring held on magnificently well, is a day from passing Paranormal Activity 2 and will almost certainly pass Paranormal Activity 3 at the box office. This horror film (which is great) is doing fantastically well and should spawn a sequel in the near future. Fruitvale Station and The Way, Way Back fared pretty well in their nationwide expansions, but the news indie-wise belongs to Woody Allen's newest feature Blue Jasmine (review coming tomorrow). With a $102,167 per theater average from 6 theaters, this is one to watch and admire for its reception thus far. People (including myself) love Woody Allen and will always turn up for his films. This is Mr. Allen's highest per theater average for an opening weekend of his film yet, a result I'm sure he is happy with.
In terms of my predictions, the order was right up until #9, where I left out R.I.P.D. all together and overshot Fruitvale Station and The Way, Way Back. I went high on The Wolverine, and was within 0.1 million on Grown Ups 2 and The Heat. As always, find reviews to the films I've seen (8 out of 10 with the other 2 coming) linked next to the posted result.
Here are the results:

1. The Wolverine- $55 million (Review: Coming Soon)

2. The Conjuring- $22.1 million (Review)

3. Despicable Me 2- $16 million (Review)

4. Turbo- $13.3 million (Review)

5. Grown Ups 2- $11.5 million (Review)

6. Red 2- $9.4 million (Review)

7. Pacific Rim- $7.5 million (Review)

8. The Heat- $6.9 million (Review)

9. R.I.P.D.- $5.9 million (Review: Coming Soon)

10. Fruitvale Station- $4.7 million (Review)

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