Much like the death of Gwen Stacey, the downfall of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 being top at the office came fast and unexpected. On it’s second week it took a huge plummet and was surpassed by the Zak Efron and Seth Rogen comedy, Neighbors. The film brought in $51.2mil this weekend, topping the Wall Crawler, which only made $37.2mil this weekend.
To give you some perspective, Spidey opened with $92mil last weekend. This pretty much ensures a movie like Neighbors will make all of its money back and will probably garner a sequel that’s a shot-for-shot remake of The Burbs. The rest of the Box Office fared as well as they could, but their competition was too steep to really make any sort of impact.
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1. Neighbors $51.1 million
2. The Amazing Spider-Man $37.2
3. The Other Woman $9.3 million
4. Heaven is for Real $7 million
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier $5.6 million
6. Rio 2 $5.1 million
7. Mom’s Night Out $4.2 million
8. Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return $3.7 million
9. Divergent $1.7 million
10. Brick Mansions $1.5 million
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Next weekend we shall see the return of The King of All Monsters, Godzilla, smash his way on to the big screen. I have no doubt that he’ll be #1 for at least a week before we see what happens with X-Men: Days of Futures past. The film opened up last weekend and has already had a ton of positive reviews. In the meantime, All Hail the King, for the time being.
~Chaz
