Movies With Butter

After yet another weekend of disappointing new releases, it’s small wonder that holdover films would once again rule the box office. This time, however, it was a well-rated film that took the top spot (as it should be, really). This weekend went to the Guardians of the Galaxy.

The Guardians made themselves $17.6 million over the weekend (not terrible, for its fourth week in theaters), for a massive total of $251.8 million. The ever-tenacious Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pulled in the second-highest earnings this weekend at $16.8 million, and its own fairly hefty total of $145.6 million.

Next came the first of this weekend’s new releases, If I Stay, which fulfilled its meager expectations with an opening-weekend gross of $16.3 million. It was followed by another holdout, Let’s Be Cops, which made $11 million this weekend for cumulative revenues of $45.2 million.

After that came another new release (which I forgot to mention in Friday’s column—if you’re jonesing to see how it fared with the critics, you can find out here), When the Game Stands Tall, which earned itself $9 million. Last came the final new release, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, which sank lower than its already-bleak expectations with revenues of only $6.4 million.

This will likely be my last column for Movies with Butter, so I wanted to say a brief farewell to any frequent readers of this column—it’s been a good time, and I’ll miss keeping the masses updated on what’s what in the box office.

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