The Expendables Show Their Age At Box Office
20 August 2012
The Expendables Show Their Age At Box Office
The old guys won again, but their victory was not as triumphant as it was on their first go-round. Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and the other crew members of The Expendables 2 wound up with an estimated $28.7 million for the weekend, well below the $35-40 million that tracking surveys indicated they would likely earn, and a long way from the $34.8 million that the original film earned two years ago. Two newcomers divided up the family crowd. Focus Features' ParaNorman debuted on the low end of expectations with around $14 million and The Odd Life of Timothy Green came in below them with about $10.9 million. Also showing little sparkle was 20th Century Fox's Sparkle , which opened with $12 million. Last week's winner, The Bourne Legacy , slipped to second place with $17 million, to bring its ten-day total to $69.6 million. And Warner Bros.' Campaign added $13.3 million to its coffers to bring its total to $51.6 million. And, in its fifth week, Warner's The Dark Knight Rises crossed the $400-million mark with $11.1 million, to place sixth and bring its domestic total to $409.9 million. Despite the fact that many films performed more poorly than expected at the box office, business was up 12 percent from the same weekend a year ago, when the second week of The Help rose to No. 1 with $20 million.
The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo 1. The Expendables 2, $28.8 million; 2. The Bourne Legacy , $17 million; 3. ParaNorman , $14 million; 4. The Campaign , $13.4 million; 5. Sparkle , $12 million; 6. The Dark Knight Rises , $11.1 million; 7. The Odd Life of Timothy Green , $10.9 million; 8. Hope Springs , $9.1 million; 9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days , $3.9 million; 10. Total Recall , $3.5 million.
20/08/2012
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