You can tell that the summertime movie season is chugging to a close, can’t you?
The halcyon days of Iron Man 3 and Fast & Furious 6 are well behind us. Gone are the $100 million-plus opening weekends. It would seem that Hollywood’s most lucrative season—like summer itself—is devolving into just a hazy, humid muddle as our minds slowly turn toward school, football and new television shows.
2 Guns, an actioner starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, snagged the top spot with an estimated $27.4 million—which, for them, is great. Bragging rights and all that. But had 2 Guns been released May 24 and duplicated its earnings, the flick would’ve barely earned a slot in the Top Five. (It would’ve shimmied between fourth-place Epic, with its $42.8 million, and sixth-place Iron Man 3, which collected $24.7 million.)
But back to this week. The Wolverine finished second to 2 Guns, fileting another $21.7 million. Marvel’s blade-baring bad boy spoiled the debut of The Smurfs 2, which had a very Gargamelish $18.2 million three-day tally. Take into account the cash the Smurfs made on Wednesday and Thursday, and its five-day opening still tallies to a rather gloomy $27.8 mil. Someone at Sony Pictures is surely swearing a blue streak this morning.
Rounding out the Top Five are a pair of genre leaders. The Conjuring, the year’s most lucrative horror flick, collected another $13.7 million, pushing its total run north of $108.6 million. And Despicable Me 2, in its fifth weekend, earned another $10.4 million, further boosting its status as 2013’s top animated movie.
Final figures update: 1. 2 Guns, $27.1 million; 2. The Wolverine, $21.3 million; 3. The Smurfs 2, $17.5 million; 4. The Conjuring, $13 million; 5. Despicable Me 2, $10.1 million.
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