Antoine Fuqua's "The Equalizer" dominated the weekend box-office with a solid, $35 million debut. Based on the 1980s TV series of the same name, the Denzel Washington starrer scored the fourth best September opening ever, behind "Hotel Transylvania", "Insidious: Chapter 2" and "Sweet Home Alabama". With numbers like that, you can be sure that a sequel will get made.
This week's other wide release, the 3D stop-motion animated feature "The Boxtrolls" opened in third place with $17 million, the best ever debut for Laika Studios compared to "ParaNorman" ($14 million in 2012) and "Coraline" ($16.8 million in 2009).
In other box-office-related news, "Guardians of the Galaxy" has reached a domestic gross of $319 million, passing the first and second "Iron Man" movies and becoming the third highest-grossing film in the Marvel super-hero franchise, behind "Iron Man 3" ($409 million) and "The Avengers" ($623 million).
New Wide Releases: "The Equalizer", "The Boxtrolls".
Biggest Drop : "A Walk Among the Tombstones" (-66%)
Smallest Drop : "Guardians of the Galaxy" (-27%)
Biggest Drop : "A Walk Among the Tombstones" (-66%)
Smallest Drop : "Guardians of the Galaxy" (-27%)
| Rank | Title | Weekend | Domestic | Foreign | Budget | Days |
1
|
The Equalizer
|
$35M
|
$35M
|
N/A
|
$55M
|
3
|
2
|
The Maze Runner
|
$17.5M
|
$58M
|
$63M
|
$34M
|
10
|
3
|
The Boxtrolls
|
$17.2M
|
$17M
|
$11M
|
N/A
|
3
|
4
|
This is Where I Leave You
|
$7M
|
$22M
|
N/A
|
$19.8M
|
10
|
5
|
Dolphin Tale 2
|
$4.8M
|
$33M
|
$3M
|
$36M
|
17
|
6
|
No Good Deed
|
$4.6M
|
$46M
|
$0.9M
|
$13M
|
17
|
7
|
A Walk Among the Tombstones
|
$4.2M
|
$20.8M
|
$4.9M
|
$28M
|
10
|
8
|
Guardians of the Galaxy
|
$3.7M
|
$319M
|
$325M
|
$170M
|
59
|
9
|
Let's Be Cops
|
$1.5M
|
$79M
|
$24M
|
$17M
|
47
|
10
|
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
|
$1.4M
|
$187M
|
$148M
|
$125M
|
52
|
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