The Bus

1. 2 Guns (Emmett-Furla/Universal) NEW [Runs 3,025] R
Friday $10.0M, Saturday , Weekend $28.0M

2. The Wolverine (20th Century Fox) Week 2 [Runs 3,924] PG13
Friday $6.4M (-69%), Saturday , Weekend $21.0M, Cume $94.3M

3. The Smurfs 2 (Sony Animation) NEW [Runs 3,866] PG
Friday $5.5M, Saturday , Weekend $17.5M, Cume $27.0M

4. The Conjuring (New Line/Warner Bros) Week 3 [Runs 3,115] R
Friday $4.3M, Saturday , Weekend $13.5M, Cume $108.4M

5. Despicable Me 2 (Illumination/Universal) Week 5 [Runs 3,207] PG
Friday $3.0M, Saturday , Weekend $10.0M, Cume $326.2M

6. Grown Ups 2 (Columbia/Sony) Week 4 [Runs 3,075] PG13
Friday $2.4M, Saturday , Weekend $7.6M, Cume $115.8M

7. Turbo (DreamWorks Animation/Fox) Week 3 [Runs 2,985] PG
Friday $1.8M, Saturday , Weekend $6.0M, Cume $69.0M

8. Red 2 (Summit/Lionsgate) Week 3 [Runs 2,755] PG13
Friday $1.6M, Saturday , Weekend $5.4M, Cume $44.9M

9. The Heat (20th Century Fox) Week 6, [Runs 2,074] R
Friday $1.3M, Saturday , Weekend $4.4M, Cume $149.2M

10. Pacific Rim (Legendary/Warner Bros) Week 4 [Runs 1,803] PG13
Friday $1.2M, Saturday , Weekend $4.2M, Cume $92.5M

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/smur...ational-hopes/

Despite Smurfs 2 bombing, Sony has already scheduled the third for 2015.

Why So Blu?

And The Conjuring keeps on conjuring. Boom!

islandclaws

Seriously. A sub-40% drop in its third week is incredible.

Deftones

Yeah, I guess the Smurfs are huge overseas, so it seems like it's really being made for that market, with anything it makes in the US as icing on the cake.

Ash Ketchum

Do you realize that five of the top ten films have "2" in their titles?

Dragon Tattoo

One can only hope The Smurfs begins the downfall of this CGI-family film shitfest that seems to have infected Hollywood.

Seems like there's been a new one of these terrible movies ever week this summer.

Arpeggi

And 1 of the remaining 5 is a garbage sequel to a garbage comic book film

Arpeggi

Replace CGI-fantasy film with comic book-based

Dragon Tattoo

At least comic book films didn't kill 2D animation.

OldBoy

so with 2 Guns costing roughly $74mil, would it be considered a mild disappointment with only $27+ mil this weekend? it probably will make back it's money, but not great, right?

dan30oly

Grown Ups 2 keeps going on!!!

I'm seeing Smurfs 2 in a little bit today.
(couldn't get to it until now)

Is there a poll yet???

TheMovieman

Well, depends on how it holds. Denzel Washington movies tend to have good holds, so I could see it making around $85 million (which seems to be the average for his movies) and once you add in the overseas gross and home video, it'll still be profit for Universal.

OldBoy

yeah, true. will probably make a modest profit.

DJariya

I think this is the summer where the studios will learn that having massive budgets for their movies will do more harm than good. There were just too many movies with $150M+ budgets and just not enough audiences to watch them.

GoldenJCJ

Isn't this what Steven Spielberg was warning us about just a month or two ago?

I enjoy a big, silly blockbuster as much as the next guy but budgets have really started to get out of hand. There is no reason in the world that shoot 'em up action flicks like White House Down should cost upwards of $150 million.

resinrats

Lucas and Spielberg are sitting at home going "Told ya!!"

fumanstan

Looks like Wolverine's drop for the weekend was 59%, which is a bit more then First Class which was 56%... so I guess it will continue to trail that movie by a bit. Although the budget was $40 million less, so I guess Fox will be happy enough.

DJariya

Olympus has Fallen had a similar premise, but had a budget less than half ($70M) and actually did decent box office. $161M approx worldwide ($98M in the U.S.) whereas White House was still a bust with worldwide included. $116M worldwide.

The Antipodean

Further evidence foreign box office matters just as much if not more as the US:
http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/paci...sequel-likely/

As an American living overseas I fail to understand why there's so much emphasis on US money, as if foreign inflow somehow doesn't spend the same way. All international and domestic box office ought to be reported equally somehow, I think. Movies that are "flops" in the US aren't always actually flops.

dan30oly

Smurfs 2 is now my 2nd favorite movie of the year.

Grown Ups 2 is my absolute fave (going to be hard topping that theater going experience!)

Rypro 525

shit blowing up costs money! (also actor salery goes towards the budget)

GoldenJCJ

^ I realize that but let's face it, Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx aren't exactly Tom Cruise level actors. If they got paid more than a few million eah it was too much.

Actually, with the exception of Robert Downey Jr. and maybe Brad Pitt (but he also produced WWZ so I'm sure his fee was calculated differently) there really weren't too many huge stars in this Summer's blockbusters. Certainly not enough to warrant the outrageous budgets these films have had this year.

Ash Ketchum

So you're the one who likes all these movies with "2" in the title.

Jaymole

Why couldn't you just ignore him like everyone else

professor chaos

So when do you plan on seeing your 3rd movie of the year?