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| Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy (r) in The Heat |
Big isn't always better, as Sony Pictures discovered this weekend. Roland Emmerich's White House Down flopped with a $25.7 million opening, placing fourth behind last week's #1 Monsters University, newbie The Heat and World War Z on a down (-8.5% from last year) weekend overall.
Monsters U dropped just 44% from last week's impressive bow, earning $46.2 million to raise its domestic total to just north of $171 million. Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox's female comedy The Heat exceeded projections while nabbing an A- CinemaScore. To prove just how important CinemaScore is... consider White House Down also earned an A- (I graded them D and F respectively, so go figure.) World War Z ($29.8 million) slipped one spot to third, but improved its 10-day domestic cume to $123.7 million.
For the year, Hollywood finds itself down only 2% from 2012's record-breaking numbers: That's a big improvement from the first quarter of the year. Disney's The Lone Ranger and Universal's Despicable Me 2 will look to narrow that gap even further this Wednesday.
The top 10 films for this weekend...
1. Monsters University $46.2M
2. The Heat $40M
3. World War Z $29.8M
4. White House Down $25.7M
5. Man of Steel $20.8M
6. This is the End $8.7M
7. Now You See Me $5.5M
8. Fast & Furious 6 $2.4M
9. Star Trek Into Darkness $2M
10. The Internship $1.4M
