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 Apes had no trouble staying at No. 1 in its second weekend, holding better than any previous summer tentpole. The Fox sequel fell 50 percent to $36 million for a domestic total of $139 million.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, July 20, are as follows:
RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
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REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
1 | Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes | 20th Century Fox | $36,000,000 | 3,969 | 9,070 | $138,952,844 |
2 | Purge: Anarchy, The | Universal | $28,368,660 | 2,805 | 10,113 | $28,368,660 |
3 | Planes: Fire and Rescue | Disney | $18,000,000 | 3,826 | 4,704 | $18,000,000 |
4 | Sex Tape | Sony | $15,000,000 | 3,062 | 4,898 | $15,000,000 |
5 | Transformers: Age Of Extinction | Paramount | $10,000,000 | 3,224 | 3,101 | $227,156,888 |
6 | Tammy | Warner Bros. | $7,605,000 | 3,402 | 2,235 | $71,253,096 |
7 | 22 Jump Street | Sony | $4,700,000 | 2,229 | 2,108 | $180,509,111 |
8 | How To Train Your Dragon 2 | 20th Century Fox | $3,800,000 | 2,169 | 1,751 | $160,671,895 |
9 | Maleficent | Disney | $3,302,000 | 1,541 | 2,142 | $228,367,000 |
10 | Earth To Echo | Relativity Media | $3,260,000 | 2,450 | 1,330 | $31,979,314 |
11 | Begin Again | The Weinstein Company | $2,762,000 | 1,302 | 2,121 | $9,487,666 |
12 | America | Lionsgate | $1,725,000 | 1,030 | 1,674 | $11,468,696 |