Despite a drop of over 60% from the previous week’s box-office, Transformers: Age of Extinction managed to hold on to first place for the second week in a row pulling in over $36 million dollars. Coming in second place was the Melissa McCarthy vehicle Tammy, which earned an estimate $21 million dollars in it’s second week of release. Coming in third with an anemic $9.5 million dollar debut was the horror film, Deliver Us From Evil. 22 Jump Street continues it’s impressive run with $9.4 million staying one step ahead of How to Train Your Dragon 2 with $8.8 million dollars. Here is the complete breakdown for the weekend of 7/4-7/6, 2014:
| Rank | Movie | Weekly Gross | Gross To Date | Weeks in Release | # Of Theaters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Paramount Pictures |
$36.4M | $174.7M | 2 | 4233 |
| 2 |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
$21.2M | $32.9M | 1 | 3465 |
| 3 |
Sony Pictures |
$9.5M | $15.0M | 1 | 3049 |
| 4 |
Sony Pictures |
$9.4M | $158.9M | 4 | 3324 |
| 5 |
20th Century Fox |
$8.8M | $140.0M | 4 | 3297 |
| 6 |
Relativity Media |
$8.2M | $13.5M | 1 | 3230 |
| 7 |
Walt Disney Pictures |
$6.1M | $213.9M | 6 | 2389 |
| 8 |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
$5.2M | $36.7M | 3 | 2630 |
| 9 |
Sony Pictures |
$4.9M | $57.2M | 3 | 1729 |
| 10 |
Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow |
$3.6M | $90.9M | 5 | 1538 |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is set to debut this week and is sure to take the top spot based off of very positive early reviews. Come back for the P.o.G.’s review shortly!
Source: Washington Post