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The penultimate weekend of summer ranged from lackluster to terrible for new offerings If I Stay andSin City: A Dame to Kill For, making way for Guardians of the Galaxy to reclaim the top spot at the North American box office as it became the top grossing film of the season. Marvel Studios and …

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” easily stayed atop the North American box office as “The Expendables 3” underperformed in its debut, grossing just $16.2 million. Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies’ TMNT remained at No. 1 in its second weekend, falling 57 percent to an estimated $28.4 million for a …

Scarlett 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 …

This weekend brought more bad news for the summer box office, with revenue in North America tumbling 24 percent over the same frame last year, as a trio of new films — The Purge: Anarchy, Planes: Fire & Rescue and Sex Tape — all did less business than expected. Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the …

Fox’s critically acclaimed sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes roared its way to a stellar $73 million debut at the domestic box office, well ahead of the $54.8 million debut of Rise of the Planet of the Apes in August 2011 and furthering the studio’s winning streak this …

Paramount’s Transformers: Age of Extinction debuted to $100 million in North America, the best number of the year to date and reinvigorating the giant robot franchise. Overseas, it was even more massive in its initial assault, taking in $201.3 million for a worldwide bow of $301.3 million. The top 12 …

Kevin Hart‘s ensemble comedy Think Like a Man Too debuted in an otherwise slow weekend, to a solid $30 million at the North American box office, delivering Sony its second straight win after 22 Jump Street, which almost stayed at No. 1 in its second weekend with $29 million. The top 12 films …

Laughing its way to the second-best opening of all time for an R-rated comedy, Channing Tatum andJonah Hill‘s 22 Jump Street beat out How to Train Your Dragon 2 for the top spot at the Father’s Day weekend box office with $60 million. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, June 15, are …

Younger females proved their might at the North American box office this weekend, delivering a stellar $48.2 million opening for YA romance “The Fault in Our Stars,” starring Shailene Woodley and Anse lElgort as two young lovers who meet in a cancer support group. Fault easily beat Tom Cruise’s sci-fi snoozer “Edge of Tomorrow,” which opened to a …

Thanks in large part to girls and women, Maleficent debuted to a powerful $70 million from 3,948 theaters at the North American box office in a major win for star Angelina Jolie and Disney. Overseas, the live-action fairy tale took in an impressive $100.6 million for a worldwide total of $170.6 million. The top …