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Posted in: Movies | Tagged: entertainment, film, guardians of the galaxy, if i stay, sin city 2 a dame to kill for, teenage mutant ninja turtles, When The Game Stands Tall
Three New Films Fail To Impress As Guardians Is Expected To Take #1
With three new movie bowing this weekend: If I Stay, When The Game Stands Tall and Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For – it wasn't clear which one would catch fire and take the weekend. If Friday's box office numbers are an indication (and they usually are), the answer is 'None Of The Above'.
According to Deadline, the YA novel adaptation, If I Stay did the best of the three with $6.8 million and is expected to make $16.5 for the weekend, which would put it in first place for the night but with family audiences added in, second place for the weekend.
When The Game Stands Tall did second best among the newcomers. The biopic that focuses on a coach inspiring a high school football team brought in $2.9 million with an expectation of between $8.4 and $9.2 million for the weekend.
And then we turn to the bomb – Frank Miller's Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For. The sequel nine years in the making is expected to make $7 million or less opening weekend for a sixth place finish.
Last weekends debuts are expected to slide down with the Let's Be Cops doing the best with an estimated $9.7 to $10.3 million. And just below the three new releases should be The Giver (est $6 million) and Expendables 3 (est. $5.8 million).
For it's third weekend, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is expected to hang around the number 3 spot with a weekend estimated take of $15.2 to $16.2 million.
Which means the #1 spot of the weekend is expected to be Guardians of the Galaxy with $17.5 to $17.7 million estimated for their fourth weekend. This would mean the movie would cross the $250 million mark this weekend and putting it withing striking distance of the top domestic grossing film of the year, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
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