Chappie
March 7, 2015
Chappie tops slow weekend
LOS ANGELES, USA (AP) — Neither a hyper-intelligent robot nor Vince Vaughn could save the box office this weekend, which is down 38.5 per cent from the same weekend last year, according to yesterday’s estimates from box office firm Rentrak.
While Neill Blomkamp’s R-rated Chappie might have taken the No 1 spot in its 3,201 theatre debut, its modest US$13.3 million gross is hardly anything to celebrate. It’s a career low for Blomkamp, whose previous films Elysium and District 9 debuted at US$29.8 and US$37.4 million, respectively.
