Horror, Scifi, Thriller Box Office Numbers, DVD Sales, and Television Viewership for the week of August 8 to August 14, 2014.
Box Office: Ninja Turtles takes the top spot at the box office, and Guardians of the Galaxy had a very good second week showing. Included Into the Storm because it reminds me of a SyFy channel movie. New horror titles coming soon!
1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $89,242,000
2 1 Guardians of the Galaxy $63,154,000 (Total: $195,545,000)
3 Into the Storm $23,621,000 (Total: $23,621,000)
5 2 Lucy $14,196,000 (Total: $102,219,000)
8 4 Hercules $8,279,000 (Total: $66,041,000)
10 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $6,478,000 (Total: $199,912,000)
12 7 The Purge: Anarchy $3,246,000 (Total: $69,494,000)
19 16 Maleficent $897,000 (Total: $236,412,000)
20 12 Transformers: Age of Extinction $833,000 (Total: $243,136,000)
25 33 X-Men: Days of Future Past $440,000 (Total: $232,240,000)
26 14 Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods $437,000 (Total: $2,553,000)
30 23 Earth to Echo $270,000 (Total: $37,580,000)
34 30 Godzilla $205,000 (Total: $200,506,000)
72 66 Under the Skin $5,000 (Total: $2,615,000)
78 81 Coherence $2,000 (Total: $86,000)
79 N/A Godzilla: The Japanese Original $2,000 (Total: $150,000)
DVD Top 30: There wasn’t a whole lot going on with new releases from last week, so I decided to provide you with bonus numbers instead. These are sporadic titles as of the first week in June.
Avatar – $197,515,000
The Wolverine – $34,799,000
Mary Poppins – $32,093,000
The Hobbit 2 – $24,566,000
Thor 2 – $22,501,000
Legend of Hercules – $6,743,000
I, Frankenstein – $5,641,000
Robocop – $2,686,000
True Blood: Season 6 – $2,204,000
Vampire Academy – $2,068,000
Pretty Little Liars: Season 4 – $556,000
Falling Skies: Season 3 – $403,000
Television Viewership: Finally got some viewership numbers for “Face Off.” Looks like it’s doing just as well or a tad better than last year.
Under the Dome – 6,900,000
Extant – 5,680,000
True Blood – 3,340,000
Falling Skies – 2,510,000
Pretty Little Liars – 2,053,000
The Strain – 2,030,000
Teen Wolf – 1,681,000
Defiance – 1,620,000
Face Off – 1,299,000
