The summer box office season finished with a tiny pop and not a bang.
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ comes out on top over the Labor Day weekend with a box office haul of $22 million. Marvel’s space opera has earned $280 million as has been crowned the top film of the summer as well as the highest grossing film domestically this year. This is the third time ‘Guardians’ has held the top spot since it hit theaters on August 1.
Michael Bay’s take on ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ held steady in second place with $15.7 million. It has brought its domestic total to $166 million.
Chloe Grace Mortez sits pretty in third place with the teenage melodrama ‘If I Stay’ which earned $11.6 million over the holiday weekend. The movie, which is based on the book of the same name, has taken in $32.2 million in its 10-day run.
‘Let’s Be Cops’ is proving to be a sleeper hit as it earns another $10.6 million in its third week of release.
Rounding out the top five is the only new comer that made the cut. The horror flick ‘As Above/So Below’ landed in fourth place with a $8.3 million gross.
Overall, this was a slow summer season. Box office sales were down 15% from last year which shattered records with the massive successes of ‘Iron Man 3’, ‘Despicable Me 2’ and ‘The Heat’. Next year is expected to be the biggest summer yet when ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Termnator: Genisys’ and ‘Ant-Man’ arrive in theaters.
Kicking off fall this week is the only wide release ‘The Identical’ which hits theaters Friday.
