Box Office: ‘Transformers 4,’ ‘Tammy’ Top Dreadful July 4th Weekend
“Transformers: Age of Extinction” topped a Fourth of July holiday that let out a whimper at the box office instead of a bang.
Overall, this holiday weekend topped out at approximately $130 million, a 43.4% drop from last year’s Independence Day, which brought in $230 million overall. If these numbers hold, this could be weakest Fourth of July in at least a decade.
“There wasn’t another big tentpole movie to compete with ‘Transformers,’” said Phil Contrino, vice president and chief analyst of BoxOffice.com. “There was a hesitancy on the part of studios to open against it, but what the market is saying is that there was room for another tentpole to compete with it.”
The fourth “Transformers” film netted $36.4 million in its second week of release from 4,233 locations, pushing the $210 million production to $174.7 million domestically, according to studio estimates.
Internationally, the film continued to be a juggernaut, particularly in China, where it is outpacing its domestic run, adding another $50.9 million to its bottom line and putting its total from the Asian nation at $212.8 million. The film topped the foreign box office with $95.8 million from 37 territories, lifting its international total to $400.9 million.
Among the crop of new releases, New Line’s “Tammy” fared the best, wrangling $32.9 million across 3,400 screens over its first five days, $21.2 million of it coming from the weekend. That’s a lower figure than pre-release tracking had suggested it would attract, with most analysts predicting a debut of $40 million over its first five days in theaters.
11Transformers: Age of ExtinctionPar.$36,400,000-63.6%4,233-$8,599$174,746,000$2102
2NTammyWB$21,170,000-3,465-$6,110$32,906,000$201
3NDeliver Us From EvilSGem$9,500,000-3,049-$3,116$15,000,000-1
4222 Jump StreetSony$9,400,000-40.7%3,324-102$2,828$158,854,000$504
53How to Train Your Dragon 2Fox$8,750,000-33.9%3,297-453$2,654$140,000,000$1454
6NEarth to EchoRela.$8,250,000
“Transformers: Age of Extinction” topped a Fourth of July holiday that let out a whimper at the box office instead of a bang.
Overall, this holiday weekend topped out at approximately $130 million, a 43.4% drop from last year’s Independence Day, which brought in $230 million overall. If these numbers hold, this could be weakest Fourth of July in at least a decade.
“There wasn’t another big tentpole movie to compete with ‘Transformers,’” said Phil Contrino, vice president and chief analyst of BoxOffice.com. “There was a hesitancy on the part of studios to open against it, but what the market is saying is that there was room for another tentpole to compete with it.”
The fourth “Transformers” film netted $36.4 million in its second week of release from 4,233 locations, pushing the $210 million production to $174.7 million domestically, according to studio estimates.
Internationally, the film continued to be a juggernaut, particularly in China, where it is outpacing its domestic run, adding another $50.9 million to its bottom line and putting its total from the Asian nation at $212.8 million. The film topped the foreign box office with $95.8 million from 37 territories, lifting its international total to $400.9 million.
Among the crop of new releases, New Line’s “Tammy” fared the best, wrangling $32.9 million across 3,400 screens over its first five days, $21.2 million of it coming from the weekend. That’s a lower figure than pre-release tracking had suggested it would attract, with most analysts predicting a debut of $40 million over its first five days in theaters.
11Transformers: Age of ExtinctionPar.$36,400,000-63.6%4,233-$8,599$174,746,000$2102
2NTammyWB$21,170,000-3,465-$6,110$32,906,000$201
3NDeliver Us From EvilSGem$9,500,000-3,049-$3,116$15,000,000-1
4222 Jump StreetSony$9,400,000-40.7%3,324-102$2,828$158,854,000$504
53How to Train Your Dragon 2Fox$8,750,000-33.9%3,297-453$2,654$140,000,000$1454
6NEarth to EchoRela.$8,250,000
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