As expected, Godzilla stomped all over the competition at the U.S. box office over the weekend. Pulling in over half of all dollars spent at cinemas, its $93.2 million ranks second for the year so far, behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Its opening day, however, was first for the year to date, which, combined with some disappointing reactions from moviegoers and the X-Men onslaught on its way next weekend, makes long-term prospects for Godzilla look weaker than that ostensibly strong performance might suggest. Disney's efforts at counterprogramming, with the ridiculously well-testing baseball movie Million Dollar Arm, flopped somewhat, as the Jon Hamm film made $10.5 million for fourth place. Baseball movies have a low ceiling at the box office, granted, but this remains a disappointing figure for a promising film. With only two new entries into the Top 40, things fell down pretty regularly up top. Belle continued its expansion with consistently fine results, while Chef added 66 screens on its limited start last weekend, and its per-theatre average was behind only Godzilla within the Top 40. Further down, there were modest starts for The Immigrant and Chinese Puzzle, though neither made more than $15k per-theatre. Half of a Yellow Sun and Horses of God were each released into just one theatre - with very little publicity, both did very poorly.
Top 10
- Godzilla ($93,188,384)
- Neighbours ($25,065,895)
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($16,803,227)
- Million Dollar Arm ($10,515,659)
- The Other Woman ($6,307,823)
- Heaven is for Real ($4,380,052)
- Rio 2 ($3,739,890)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($3,664,058)
- Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return ($1,9577,456)
- Moms' Night Out ($1,773,470)
X-Men: Days of Future Past will almost certainly score the biggest opening of the year yet when it opens next weekend; Warner Bros. will launch their own counter-attack with Adam Sandler / Drew Barrymore rom-com Blended.
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