Box Office Report: ‘2 Guns’ Is Number One With a Bullet

Universal predicted the film would only open in the low twenties, though the studio may have been low-balling in order to make the movie look like it overperformed. It actually opened around where most pundits had predicted it would. Considering that the buddy action-comedy cost just $61 million to make (pretty cheap considering that Washington and Mark Wahlberg are two of the best-paid stars in Hollywood), it should have little trouble making a profit.

2 Guns beat a slate of older releases that held up reasonably well. Last week’s champ, The Wolverine, lost 59 percent of last week’s business, which is typical for X-Men movies, but even with that decline, it still finished second with an estimated $21.7 million. Horror hit The Conjuring was fourth with an estimated $13.7 million, enough to cross the $100 million mark on Saturday, its 16th day of release. Despicable Me 2 rounded out the top five with an estimated $10.4 million, for a whopping $326.7 million over 33 days.

LOSER OF THE WEEK: Neil Patrick Harris. Not only did he not land the Oscar-hosting gig, but his The Smurfs 2 underwhelmed with a third-place opening estimated at $18.2 million from Friday to Sunday. (Since its opening Wednesday, it earned $27.8 million, about what 2 Guns earned in three days.) The original Smurfs opened on the same weekend two years ago, but it earned about twice as much over three days ($35.6 million) and 40 percent more over five days ($46.3 million). It even opened lower than the five-day debut of recent cartoon flop Turbo ($31.0 million), which doesn’t bode well for the rest of the film’s run.

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