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‘Lucy’ Dominates Box Office

LucyScarlett Johansson’s Lucy opened to a winning $44 million at the North American box office, an impressive start for an action film featuring a female heroine. The movie, directed by Luc Besson, easily showed more muscle than Dwayne Johnson’s epic Hercules, which debuted at No. 2 to roughly $29 million for director Brett Ratner. These films did nothing, however, to raise the ailing summer box office totals.

The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, July 27, are as follows:

RANKTITLEDISTRIBUTOR NAMEWEEKEND REVENUECUME REVENUE
REVENUE# OF LOCATIONS*LOC AVG
1LucyUniversal$44,025,3753,17313,875$44,025,375
2HerculesParamount$29,000,0003,5958,066$29,000,000
3Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes20th Century Fox$16,400,0003,6684,471$172,088,629
4Purge: Anarchy, TheUniversal$9,896,0402,8563,465$51,272,185
5Planes: Fire and RescueDisney$9,303,0003,8392,423$35,121,000
6Sex TapeSony$5,975,0003,0621,951$26,876,532
7Transformers: Age Of ExtinctionParamount$4,600,0002,4761,857$236,352,475
8And So It GoesFreestyle Releasing$4,551,6871,7622,583$4,551,687
9TammyWarner Bros.$3,400,0002,5621,327$78,147,089
10Most Wanted Man, ARoadside Attractions$2,717,4253617,527$2,717,425
1122 Jump StreetSony$2,500,0001,6131,549$185,654,099
12How To Train Your Dragon 220th Century Fox$2,200,0001,3581,620$165,628,880

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