Guardians continues four-week run
LOS ANGELES, USA (AP) — Guardians of the Galaxy continues to rule the box office universe.
The cosmic Marvel adventure arrived in first place at the box office for a fourth weekend with US$10.2 million, according to studio estimates yesterday. The domestic haul for Guardians, which features Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana as intergalactic do-gooders, now stands at US$294.6 million after six weeks of release.
Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sliced off second place in its fifth weekend with US$6.5 million, bringing the domestic total of the live-action superhero reboot starring Megan Fox and Will Arnett to US$174.6 million.
The Warner Bros young-adult novel adaptation If I Stay, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, took third place in its third weekend with US$5.7 million.
The weekend’s only new release, Freestyle’s musical drama The Identical, dismally debuted in 11th place with US$1.9 million. The film starring Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd failed to achieve the successes of similar faith-based films as Heaven Is for Real, God’s Not Dead and Son of God released this year.