If 20th Century Fox earned a nickel for every tear shed this weekend during The Fault in Our Stars, the studio would’ve cleared about 6 gazillion dollars. Easily.
But alas, the studio will just have to settle for an estimated $48.2 million.
The take proved to be an extraordinarily happy ending for this saddest of teen romances. Fault tore past the mighty Maleficent and upended Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow to win the weekend’s box office derby. Oh, and given that Fox only spent a meager $12 million to make the weeper, the studio’s already showing a profit. The only company that arguably did better than Fox this weekend was whoever makes Kleenex.
The weekend was supposed to be a titanic brawl between Fault and Cruise’s newest sci-fi extravaganza, but it was not to be. Maleficent, Disney’s baddest do-gooder, edged past Cruise and Edge of Tomorrow, collecting $33.5 million en route to a second-place finish. Sure, Maleficent lost a bit more than 50% of its audience, but you can’t, um, fault the flick for that.
All that girl power at the top of the box office pushed Edge to third. It made a not-horrible $29.1 million. But given that Edge’s budget was somewhere near $180 million—fifteen times that of Fault—Cruise and company might be wishing for a do-over.
X-Men: Days of Future Past finished fourth this weekend, adding another $14.7 million to Prof. Xavier’s scholarship fund for underprivileged mutants. And Seth McFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West continued its disappointing ways, earning a scant $7.2 million to round out the Top Five.
Final figures update: 1. The Fault in Our Stars, $48 million; 2. Maleficent, $34.3 million; 3. Edge of Tomorrow, $28.8 million; 4. X-Men: Days of Future Past, $15.2 million; 5. A Million Ways to Die in the West, $7.3 million.
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