The big winner was Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, which roared back to the top of the charts after spending a couple of weeks in second place, and that despite being out in theaters for a month now. Clearly audiences were ready for more from Star-Lord and the gang and the space oddities are now enjoying the highest domestic gross for any film at the US box office in 2014 (Transformers: Age Of Extinction clings to the worldwide top spot like a robot with a locked servo). Guardians took in $17.6 million this weekend, pushing it to $251.8 million in the States and $489.4 million globally.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was pushed down to second place after a couple of weeks at the top, earning $16.8 million this weekend for $145 million in total. It kept the first of this week’s new arrivals, novel adaptation If I Stay from breaking the top two, with Chloe Moretz’ latest launching third with $16.3 million. Comedy romp Let’s Be Cops proved resilient, falling one place to fourth with $11 million, ahead of another new arrival, true-life football tale When The Game Stands Tall, which was tackled by some bad reviews and seeming lack of interest for $9 million in fifth. The Giver was shoved to sixth, earning $6.7 million, while The Expendables 3 continued to under perform, falling to seventh with $6.6 million and $27.5 million in total from the US.
By far the biggest loser this weekend was Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s return to the splashy noir of Sin City with A Dame To Kill For. Despite figuring that nine years might lead to pent-up demand for the sequel, the directors have been proved badly wrong, as moviegoers largely ignored the second serving of pulp graphic novel-spawned melodrama. At Comic-Con, Rodriguez and Miller voiced hope that success with the sequel might drive a third film – it’s a thought that seems even more out of reach now.
At ninth we find The Hundred-Foot Journey, with the gentle culinary comedy drama taking in $5.5 million ahead of tornado thriller Into The Storm, which whipped up $3.8 million in 10th place.
To see a group of space-travelling a-holes trounce some Turtles in the full chart listings, head to Box Office Mojo.
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