Guardians Grabs Top Spot on Slow Weekend Box Office

<p>After a month at the box office&comma; <em><strong>Guardians of the Galaxy<&sol;strong><&sol;em> has proved its staying power by returning to &num;1 once again&period; Despite being a lower return than last weekend&comma; the <strong>&dollar;16&comma;313&comma;000<&sol;strong> it scraped together was enough to come out on top&period; Naturally&comma; other films weren&&num;8217&semi;t so lucky&period; <em><strong>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<&sol;strong><&sol;em> continues to nip at <em><strong>Guardian<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s tail with a <strong>&dollar;11&comma;750&comma;000<&sol;strong> gross&period; In its second week&comma; the drama <em><strong>If I Stay<&sol;strong><&sol;em> held the &num;3 spot with <strong>&dollar;9&comma;260&comma;000<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two new films this weekend had it the worst&period; The paranormal horror <em><strong>As Above&sol;So Below<&sol;strong><&sol;em> only made <strong>&dollar;8&comma;342&comma;000<&sol;strong> while action thriller <em><strong>The November Man<&sol;strong><&sol;em> only brought in <strong>&dollar;7&comma;660&comma;000<&sol;strong> &lpar;with an additional 2 million from its Wednesday opening&rpar;&period; Also&comma; I feel I should mention the 30th anniversary re-release of <em><strong>Ghostbusters<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>which made about <strong>&dollar;1&comma;650&comma;000<&sol;strong> from appearing in a little over 700 theaters&period; Read the top 10 weekend estimates below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol>&NewLine;<li><strong>Guardians of the Galaxy<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;16&comma;313&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<&sol;strong> &lpar;2014&rpar;&colon; &dollar;11&comma;750&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>If I Stay<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;9&comma;260&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>As Above&sol;So Below<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;8&comma;342&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Let&&num;8217&semi;s Be Cops<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;8&comma;200&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>The November Man<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;7&comma;660&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>When the Game Stands Tall<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;5&comma;650&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>The Giver<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;5&comma;253&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>The Hundred-Foot Journey<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;4&comma;603&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>The Expendables 3<&sol;strong>&colon; &dollar;3&comma;500&comma;000<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p>You may be getting deja vu next week as there won&&num;8217&semi;t be any competition at all&period; The Elvis Presley drama <em><strong>The Identical<&sol;strong><&sol;em> will be opening next weekend&comma; but only in an abysmal 1&comma;450 theaters&period; I&&num;8217&semi;d like to say the one week re-release of <em><strong>Forrest Gump<&sol;strong><&sol;em> would make it in the top 10&comma; but at 300 theaters it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have a chance&period; Unless the <em><strong>Turtles<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>pick up more steam&comma; next weekend&&num;8217&semi;s box office will be pretty uneventful&period; And looking ahead at September&comma; I wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t expect <em><strong>Guardians of the Galaxy<&sol;strong><&sol;em> to take a big dip until at least <em><strong>The Maze Runner<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>debuts on September 19th&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;boxofficemojo&period;com&sol;">Box Office Mojo<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;