How To Train Your Dragon 2 flaps into second
It was the war of the sequels at the US Box Office this weekend, a match-up soundly won by Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum with 22 Jump Street. The comedy follow-up, which had already launched in the UK to decent figures, scored a healthy stateside debut with $60 million.
That figure means that the new Jump Street kicked off with a little less than double the 2012 original’s take, a nice result for all involved and a sign that audiences were definitely ready for more from Jenko & Schmidt. Worldwide, the film has so far taken $68 million, with plenty of countries still to come. It wasn’t exactly a direct battle between the films – one was an R-rated comedy, the other an animated adventure aimed more squarely (though not exclusively) at families – but DreamWorks Animation will be happy with How To Train Your Dragon 2, which arrived to a solid $50 million. It might not be quite the soar away start to please the company’s ever-worried investors, but as a company spokesman pointed out, it has clear airspace in ‘toon terms until Disney’s new Planes film arrives next month, so should fly on to decent returns.
The new family competition meant that Maleficent was pushed to third place, but it held well and took in $19 million in its third week. That kept it ahead of both Edge Of Tomorrow and The Fault In Our Stars, which traded places as the weekend went along. Edge is still not quite seeing the income it needed given its budget, but it enjoyed much less of a drop from its opening, earning $16.1 million in fourth for a $56.6 million US running total. Fault, which rode its fan base’s enthusiasm to success last week, slipped sharply, falling 67% despite adding screens, and landing fifth with $15.7 million in the bank. The drop won’t worry Fox, however – with that low $12 million budget, the film is well into profitable territory already.
In sixth was X-Men: Days Of Future Past, which continues to chug along happily and added $9.5 million this weekend. The mutant sequel is now across the $200 million mark in the US alone, one of the few big titles to make it so far this year, and one that sailed across as opposed to scraping near. Talking of, Godzilla, falling one place to seventh, is still struggling a little, adding $3.1 million for a $191.3 million total. It has now crested $428 million around the world while the X-Men are past $661 million globally.
A Million Ways To Die In The West sank to eighth place with $3 million, while Seth Rogen’s Neighbors fell to $2.4 million in ninth. Jon Favreau’s successful return to indie filmmaking, Chef, earned $2.2 million at 10th, with the culinary comedy drama now on $14 million in the States.
To see two cops chase away a giant reptile while one shouts, “fuck you, dragon!” head to Box Office Mojo for the full chart listings.
from Empire News
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