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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 Disney’s Guardians took in $17.6 million in its fourth weekend for a domestic total of $251.9 million, eclipsing the $243.3 million grossed by Transformers: Age of Extinction. And it will soon become the top grossing film of the year in North America when it overtakes fellow Marvel titleCaptain America: The Winter Soldier ($259.8 million). Globally, Guardians has grossed $489 million to date.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, August 24 are as follows:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Guardians Of The Galaxy | Disney | $17,631,000 | 3,371 | 5,230 | $251,884,857 |
| 2 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Paramount | $16,800,000 | 3,864 | 4,347 | $145,609,806 |
| 3 | If I Stay | Warner Bros. | $16,355,000 | 2,907 | 5,626 | $16,355,000 |
| 4 | Let’s Be Cops | 20th Century Fox | $11,000,000 | 3,140 | 3,503 | $45,246,168 |
| 5 | When The Game Stands Tall | Sony | $9,100,000 | 2,673 | 3,404 | $9,100,000 |
| 6 | Giver, The | The Weinstein Company | $6,730,000 | 3,003 | 2,241 | $24,100,538 |
| 7 | Expendables 3, The | Lionsgate | $6,600,000 | 3,221 | 2,049 | $27,518,177 |
| 8 | Frank Miller’s Sin City Dame To Kill For | The Weinstein Company | $6,477,000 | 2,894 | 2,238 | $6,477,000 |
| 9 | Hundred-Foot Journey, The | Disney | $5,562,000 | 1,944 | 2,861 | $32,750,000 |
| 10 | Into The Storm | Warner Bros. | $3,800,000 | 2,375 | 1,600 | $38,301,384 |
| 11 | Lucy | Universal | $3,536,000 | 1,768 | 2,000 | $113,771,270 |
| 12 | Boyhood | IFC Films | $1,864,360 | 734 | 2,540 | $16,526,408 |
