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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 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:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Lucy | Universal | $44,025,375 | 3,173 | 13,875 | $44,025,375 |
| 2 | Hercules | Paramount | $29,000,000 | 3,595 | 8,066 | $29,000,000 |
| 3 | Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes | 20th Century Fox | $16,400,000 | 3,668 | 4,471 | $172,088,629 |
| 4 | Purge: Anarchy, The | Universal | $9,896,040 | 2,856 | 3,465 | $51,272,185 |
| 5 | Planes: Fire and Rescue | Disney | $9,303,000 | 3,839 | 2,423 | $35,121,000 |
| 6 | Sex Tape | Sony | $5,975,000 | 3,062 | 1,951 | $26,876,532 |
| 7 | Transformers: Age Of Extinction | Paramount | $4,600,000 | 2,476 | 1,857 | $236,352,475 |
| 8 | And So It Goes | Freestyle Releasing | $4,551,687 | 1,762 | 2,583 | $4,551,687 |
| 9 | Tammy | Warner Bros. | $3,400,000 | 2,562 | 1,327 | $78,147,089 |
| 10 | Most Wanted Man, A | Roadside Attractions | $2,717,425 | 361 | 7,527 | $2,717,425 |
| 11 | 22 Jump Street | Sony | $2,500,000 | 1,613 | 1,549 | $185,654,099 |
| 12 | How To Train Your Dragon 2 | 20th Century Fox | $2,200,000 | 1,358 | 1,620 | $165,628,880 |
