Finally, there’s a movie in the #1 Spot this past weekend that I wanted there! Riddick took the top of the Box Office and I couldn’t be happier. It only brought in $18.6mil, but with a reported budget of under $40mil, it’s sure to surpass Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick as the top grossing of the series.
The studios also re-released This Is The End, in an effort to push it over the $100mil mark. It brought in another $2mil and came up just a little short with it’s gross at $98.2mil. Other than that, nothing too crazy happened. The Butler kept strong in #2 and Spanish-language newcomer, Instructions Not Included, made it’s debut with $8mil.
Title | Weekend | Total | |
1. | Riddick | $18,673,000 | $18.6 |
2. | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | $8,900,000 | $91.9 |
3. | Instructions Not Included | $8,100,000 | $21.3 |
4. | We’re the Millers | $7,925,000 | $123.8 |
5. | Planes | $4,274,000 | $79.2 |
6. | One Direction: This IS Us | $4,100,000 | $23.9 |
7. | Elysium | $3,100,000 | $85 |
8. | Blue Jasmine | $2,688,000 | $25.4 |
9. | Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters | $2,500,000 | $59.8 |
10. | The World’s End | $2,302,000 | $21.7 |
Next week, we’ll get Luc Besson’s return to American films with The Family and James Wan’s, Insidious 2. I hope both of them blow me away since I’m excited for each of them. We’ll keep you posted on what happens on the next edition of Weekend Roundup!
~Chaz