Box office
YOUR RED, WHITE & BLUE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction followed 2014’s biggest opening with a strong enough showing to keep the July 4 weekend’s two top debuts—the Melissa McCarthy-Susan Sarandon pairing Tammy and horror flick Deliver Us From Evil—out of first place. Just below, 22 Jump Street and How to Train Your Dragon 2 did well enough to ensure extended summer runs a month after their respective releases. But everything's relative, and according to Box Office Mojo, this was the worst Independence Day weekend since 1999.
1. Transformers: Age… (Paramount) – $36.4m (-64%), 4,233/$8,599 avg. (week 2)
2. Tammy (WB) – $21.2m, 3,465/$6,110 avg. (debut)
3. Deliver Us From Evil (Screen Gems) – $9.5m, $3,324 avg. (debut)
4. 22 Jump Street (Sony) – $8.8m (-40.7%), 3,049/$2,828 avg. (week 4)
5. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Fox) – $8.3m (-33.9%), 3,297/$2,654 avg. (week 4)
In limited release, John Carney’s music-biz romance Begin Again (Weinstein) earned $1.32 million, averaging a robust $7,520 in 175 theaters after opening on five screens last weekend. (7/7a)
VMAs BEAMING BACK
TO THE BIG APPLE Getting back to where they once belonged (4/24a)
THE COUNT: ALL THE DESERT'S A STAGE
Jon Wayne is rolling over in his grave. (4/24a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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A CHORUS OF PRAISE: IVORS 2024 NOMS
