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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Weekend Box-Office: ANT-MAN Tops Charts With Mixed Results; TRAINWRECK Surprises

Ant-Man Box-Office

While Marvel's recent superhero flick "Ant-Man" managed to beat all competition, it proved to be somewhat of a disappointment at the box-office. Meanwhile, the Amy Schumber comedy "Trainwreck" surprised everyone.

Find out more about the weekend box office after the jump.


"Ant-Man" was a difficult movie to sell from the start. It had an unknown protagonist superhero, a pretty silly gimmick, and a troubled production. The fact that it still managed to rank first and gross $58 million is something, although it was expected to take in between $60 and $65 million. This is the second worst opening of the twelve Marvel movies released so far. The absolute worst was "The Incredible Hulk" with $55 million. The same risk was taken by Marvel last year with Guardians of the Galaxy", but that one eventually payed off with a $94 million debut. "Ant-Man" may have arrived at a time when a certain genre-fatigue might have set in, or it may simply have failed to attract the uninitiated. Either way, it's not a disaster, just a small setback for the studio.

Universal's "Minions" dropped to second place with $50 million over the weekend, which translates to a 56% drop from last week.

The bigger surprise comes from the Amy Schumer comedy "Trainwreck" which opened third with a strong $30.2 million. This is the second-best opening weekend for director Judd Apatow. His best debut was with "Knocked Up" ($30.9 million) in 2007.

Another noteworthy performance was that of Bill Condon's "Mr. Holmes" which made the top 10 with $2.49 million from just 363 screens.

New Wide Releases: "Ant-Man", "Trainwreck".

Biggest Drop : "Terminator: Genisys" (-61%)

Smallest Drop : "Inside Out" (-34%)

Rank Title Weekend Gross Domestic Total Foreign Total Budget
1 Ant-Man $58M $58M $56M $130M
2 Minions $50M $216.6M $403M $74M
3 Trainwreck $30.2M $30.2M N/A $35M
4 Inside Out $11.6M $306.3M $183.8M $175M
5 Jurassic World $11.4M $611M $902M $150M
6 Terminator: Genisys $5.4M $80.6M $196.8M $155M
7 Magic Mike XXL $4.5M $58.6M $31M $14.8M
8 The Gallows $4M $18M $4.2M $0.1M
9 Ted 2 $2.7M $77.4M $66M $68M
10 Mr. Holmes $2.4M $2.4M N/A N/A




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