Weekend Box Office Report: June 13-15 2014

By Kip Mooney • On • In News News 0

BOX OFFICE REPORT June 6-8, 2014(estimates from BoxOfficeMojo.com)

TOP 51. 22 Jump Street ($60.0 million)2. Train Your Dragon 2 ($50.0 million)3. Maleficent ($19.0 million)4. Edge of Tomorrow ($16.1 million)5. The Fault in Our Stars  ($15.7 million)

22 Jump Street took a serious jump up this weekend. It made roughly $25 million more than its predecessor did two years ago, and blew away its competition. Even though most of its sequel ideas at the end of the movies were more jokes from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Sony must be hoping they can keep this train rolling. This $60 million opening puts it just behind The Hangover Part II for R-rated comedies. The difference is this one's actually funny.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 came in a little under expectations. Conventional wisdom would indicate an animated sequel coming out with no other family-friendly options would destroy the competition. But Hiccup & Night Fury were no match for Jenko & Schmidt. With no animated competition for another month, it should even out, especially once foreign grosses are accounted for.

Maleficent continued to its flabbergasting run, bringing its total up to $163 million. Edge of Tomorrow had the smallest drop of any Top 5 film this summer, dropping only 43 percent. It's still a domestic dud, even though it's already in the black thanks to tremendous overseas dollars. That's better than The Fault in Our Stars, which dropped 67 percent and fell from 1 to 5. That's the biggest drop for a No. 1 movie since The Purge.

Outside the top 5: - This Weekend's Indie Champ: The Rover, David Michod's post-apocalyptic showdown between Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson, averaged $14,000 on each of its five screens. 

- Believe it or not, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is no longer the No. 1 movie of 2014. The LEGO Movie is back on top, but only by $4,000.

- X-Men: Days of Future Past became the first summer blockbuster to cross the $200 million mark. Yes, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hasn't even made it there yet. 

Next week: Jersey Boys goes for your grandmother's purse, while Think Like a Man Too goes broad, transporting its characters to Vegas. The latter will be No. 1, with $40 million. Jersey Boys won't do as hot as it did on Broadway, taking in only $20 million.

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About Kip Mooney

Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.

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