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Closing out the troubled summer at the North American box office, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy easily ruled the Labor Day holiday, earning a victorious $22.2 million in its fifth weekend for domestic total of $280 million. It will even break the curse that has plagued other summer tentpoles and hit $300 million domestically.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, August 31, are as follows:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Guardians Of The Galaxy | Disney | $16,313,000 | 3,462 | 4,712 | $274,600,000 |
| 2 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Paramount | $11,750,000 | 3,543 | 3,316 | $162,405,980 |
| 3 | If I Stay | Warner Bros. | $9,260,000 | 3,003 | 3,083 | $29,821,521 |
| 4 | As Above, So Below | Universal | $8,342,400 | 2,640 | 3,160 | $8,342,400 |
| 5 | Let’s Be Cops | 20th Century Fox | $8,200,000 | 3,010 | 2,724 | $57,321,521 |
| 6 | November Man, The | Relativity Media | $7,660,000 | 2,776 | 2,759 | $9,351,474 |
| 7 | When The Game Stands Tall | Sony | $5,650,000 | 2,673 | 2,113 | $16,320,092 |
| 8 | Giver, The | The Weinstein Company | $5,253,000 | 2,805 | 1,872 | $31,525,650 |
| 9 | Hundred-Foot Journey, The | Disney | $4,603,000 | 1,918 | 2,399 | $39,400,000 |
| 10 | Expendables 3, The | Lionsgate | $3,500,000 | 2,564 | 1,365 | $33,139,049 |
| 11 | Lucy | Universal | $2,676,510 | 1,293 | 2,070 | $117,755,825 |
| 12 | Cantinflas | Lionsgate | $2,625,000 | 382 | 6,871 | $2,625,000 |
