Expendables Conquer Box Office

Weekend Recap: 8/17-19/2012

With so many stars in The Expendables 2 (review here), its possible they all just brought their families to see the new movie to help the sequel top the box office this weekend. Regardless, The Expendables 2 grossed $28.6 million in first place, a bit less than the opening for the original film ($34.8).

The Bourne Legacy (review here) stayed strong with $17.1 million in second place. The sequel/spin-off has consistently performed somewhere between the first and second films of the franchise, making it a success, I would say, considering Jason Bourne wasn't even in it!

	The Bourne Identity	The Bourne Supremacy	The Bourne Ultimatum	The Bourne Legacy
1st Weekend	$27.1 million	$52.5 million	$69.3 million	$38.1 million
Week 1	$39.3 million	$74.7 million	$98.7 million	$52.6 million
2nd Weekend	$15.1 million	$24.2 million	$32.9 million	$17.1 million
10-Day Total	$54.4 million	$98.8 million	$131.6 million	$69.6 million

ParaNorman (review coming soon) performed respectively in third place with $14.1 million, while The Campaign (review coming soon) continued to do well in fourth place with $13.1 million.

Sparkle and The Dark Knight Rises (review here) took fifth and sixth place, respectively, each earning over $11 million. Sparkle had the second highest per-theater average of the weekend's wide releases and TDKR has now passed The Hunger Games (review here) to be the 12th-highest grossing movie in North America. Batman now has a worldwide total of $899.8 million.

The Odd Life of Timothy Green (review coming soon) opened on Wednesday and grossed $15.1 million over its first five days, earning $10.8 million of that total over the weekend for a spot in seventh place

Hope Springs (review coming soon) brought in $9.1 million for eighth place, while Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 and Total Recall (review here) rounded out the Top Ten, each grossing over $3 million for ninth and tenth place, respectively.

In limited release, Cosmopolis earned $96 thousand in three theaters for a per-venue average of $32 thousand, while Robot & Frank premiered in two theaters to gross $38 thousand, a per-location average of $19 thousand. Lastly, in only one theater, the controversial Compliance took in $16,000. Each of these three films had exceedingly higher theater averages than any of the films in wide release.

Here's a snapshot of the Top Ten Weekend Films domestically:

#	Title	Weekend Gross	Theater Average	Total Gross
1	The Expendables 2	$28.6 million	$8,624	$28.6 million
2	The Bourne Legacy	$17.1 million	$4,556	$69.6 million
3	ParaNorman	$14.1 million	$4,111	$14.1 million
4	The Campaign	$13.1 million	$4,024	$51.4 million
5	Sparkle	$11.6 million	$5,169	$11.6 million
6	The Dark Knight Rises	$11 million	$3,484	$409.8 million
7	The Odd Life of Timothy Green	$10.8 million	$4,157	$15.1 million
8	Hope Springs	$9.1 million	$3,854	$35.1 million
9	Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3	$3.8 million	$1,388	$38.7 million
10	Total Recall	$3.5 million	$1,437	$51.8 million