It’s often said that movies make subjects larger than life. But this week, the movies at the local Cineplex looked a little … smaller.
Ant-Man, Marvel’s amazing shrinking superhero, lost much of its monetary bulk from its opening-week win, losing nearly 57% of its audience and collecting an estimated $24.8 million. But it was still enough to best Pixels for a second straight win.
It makes sense, really. I mean, ants (and, naturally, ant-men) are really, really small, but pixels are even smaller. And while a bunch of pixels can make for a pretty formidable moving picture, pixels by themselves just sorta … sit there and glow. Much like the movie, actually. Still, Adam Sandler’s comedy (and I use that term loosely) gobbled $24 million worth of glowing Pac-Man dots to finish second.
Minions also are, by movie star standards, rather vertically challenged. But that hasn’t stopped them from making a titanic mark on the box office. These Twinkie-colored henchmen vacuumed up another $22.1 million, bringing their total haul to an impressive $261.2 mil. It’s a good thing for bossman Gru that these critters like to serve: Otherwise, they’d have enough to buy their own villainous hideout by now.
Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck continues to limp along the tracks, catching $17.3 million in its smashed-up cattle guard. It finished fourth, leaving Jake Gyllenhaal’s boxing drama Southpaw in fifth ($16.5 million). Still, the latter exceeded expectations, unlike the other newcomer it beat. Paper Towns, based on a book written by The Fault in Our Stars author John Green, proved to be a paper tiger: Its $12.5 million take was one-fourth of what Stars caught during its debut weekend last year, and was good only for sixth place.
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