Without much competition and a slow Labor Day Weekend, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy topped the US box office for a second week.
Guardians of the Galaxy is now the biggest movie of the year, beating out Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction having added another $16.3 million over the weekend to bring its domestic total to $274.6 million. If it can maintain this 5% drop from last week, James Gunn’s space epic should have no trouble crossing the $300 million mark domestic, which would be the first film of 2014 to do so.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remained in second place with $11.7 million while If I Stay also managed to keep third place with $9.2 million.
The highest new entry this week belonged to found footage horror movie As Above, So Below which pulled in $8.3 million. Sadly for fans of busting ghosts but the re-release of Ghostbusters didn’t quite crack the top ten, coming in at 14th with $1.6 million.
Perhaps more disappointing (at least for Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez) is that Sin City: A Dame to Kill For dropped out of the top 10 after just one week, taking a miserable $2.1 million, bringing the star-studded neo-noir’s total to just $10.7 million.
Here’s your top 10 and their domestic totals:
| |Title| | |Weekend| | |Total| | |Wk(s)| | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guardinas of the Galaxy | $16.3 million | $274.6 million | 5 |
| 2 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $11.7 million | $162.4 million | 4 |
| 3 | If I Stay | $9.2 million | $29.8 million | 2 |
| 4 | As Above, So Below | $8.3 million | $8.3 million | 1 |
| 5 | Let’s Be Cops | $8.2 million | $57.3 million | 2 |
| 6 | The November Man | $7.6 million | $7.6 million | 1 |
| 7 | When the Game Stands Tall | $5.6 million | $16.3 million | 2 |
| 8 | The Giver | $5.2 million | $31.5 million | 2 |
| 9 | The Hundred Foot Journey | $4.6 million | $39.3 million | 4 |
| 10 | The Expendables 3 | $3.5 million | $33.1 million | 3 |
Originally published September 1, 2014. Updated January 18, 2020.
