BOX OFFICE: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Set To Stay At #1 For Second Weekend

As amazing as Guardians of the Galaxy looks, it's going to have to do a lot to top Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as arguably this summer's best movie! Either way, the Matt Reeves helmed sequel looks set to take the #1 spot again this weekend, beating competition from The Purge sequel and more...

By JoshWilding - Jul 19, 2014 10:07 AM EST

Filed Under: Sci-Fi

According to The Wrap, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes looks set to stay at top of the North American box office with $35 million this weekend, holding off competition from The Purge: Anarchy (which stars Captain America: The Winter Soldier's Frank Grillo) and the critically panned comedy Sex Tape. Great reviews and positive word of mouth means that Matt Reeve's fantastic follow-up to Rise of the Planet of the Apes has suffered a drop of only 52%, meaning it has held up a lot better than The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Transformers: Age of Extinction. The latter is set to take $9 million during its fourth week of release.

Editor's Note: Both Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Transformers: Age of Extinction didn't hit the UK until a week or two after the US, so I didn't get around to writing reviews for either. The latter is probably the best instalment yet in the Michael Bay helmed franchise (which may not be saying much depending on your thoughts on them), but it's also incredibly forgettable and I'd struggle to say too much more about it at this point. It is however a lot of fun. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes meanwhile is easily on of this summer's best movies, and the work done by Andy Serkis, Toby Kebbell and the rest of the motion capture actors who collaborated with WETA is nothing short of incredible. It's a fantastic movie, and I can't wait to see where Reeves takes the franchise next. The 3D in both is pointless though. What did you guys think about these two movies?

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES earned an estimated $10.4M on Friday. Domestic total now stands at $113.35M. #DawnOfApes
— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice) July 19, 2014

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION earned an estimated $2.73M on Friday. Domestic total now stands at $219.88M. #TF4 #Transformers
— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice) July 19, 2014

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Abary - 7/19/2014, 10:50 AM

Glad to hear its doing well. I'll be checking this out today or tomorrow, it looks great.

JAC - 7/19/2014, 10:52 AM

Good shit.

TheThrasher08 - 7/19/2014, 11:00 AM

I'm glad it's gonna stay at #1 cause it was great.

RangerStorm44 - 7/19/2014, 11:01 AM

Cool Koba was a beast

Ozwald - 7/19/2014, 11:01 AM

Excellent movie, deserves to be a big success.

Bekss - 7/19/2014, 11:01 AM

The boxoffice this year has been pretty low.

Glad is doing well, it is an amazing movie

Sitterson - 7/19/2014, 11:03 AM

Great news!

MrCBM56 - 7/19/2014, 11:06 AM

well deserve.

MrFridayNights - 7/19/2014, 11:07 AM

Turk is mentally retarded

MrFridayNights - 7/19/2014, 11:07 AM

Well deserved movie of the year

Ocelot - 7/19/2014, 11:07 AM

A great movie that subsequently quashes the BS myth that the Transformers can't be the main characters of The Transfomers films. The humans were the second wheel of this movie. The first 15 minutes is nothing but CGI apes communicating through ape language which is presented through subtitles.

Toecutter - 7/19/2014, 11:12 AM

This movie was fantastic. Can't wait for part three.

Mike89 - 7/19/2014, 11:13 AM

And very Well deserved. :)

thewonderer - 7/19/2014, 11:14 AM

This movie deserves it all and more. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was a downright perfect film. A 10/10, the best summer blockbuster since The Dark Knight, and one of my favorite films of all time. Analogous to The Empire Strikes Back in quality and influence.

As good as Guardians looks, I hope it doesn't take too much away from Dawn.

Dios - 7/19/2014, 11:16 AM

Im gonna check this out tonight, f-ck the haters, how can you not like gun toting apes?

Stubner - 7/19/2014, 11:17 AM

Glad to see this is holding strong. Never had a doubt.

With the overwhelmingly positive reviews I wouldn't be surprised to see it hold on for a third week.

Klone - 7/19/2014, 11:18 AM

@Ozwald

I DOO NYAT NOO WHURE UR DARGENZ R!

THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 7/19/2014, 11:19 AM

This movie deserves a billion

ALegendaryPanda - 7/19/2014, 11:21 AM

Best movie of 2014!

imaginejim - 7/19/2014, 11:22 AM

Josh, here's a bit of harmless ribbing but, weren't you going off on a user yesterday about spelling errors in articles yet here is one by you with an error in the article title?? I believe it is supposed to be "set to stay", not "set to say"...

:)

BaneSmash - 7/19/2014, 11:24 AM

Glad it staying at #1 awesome movie! Going tonite again........ 3rd time.

ALegendaryPanda - 7/19/2014, 11:24 AM

Oh and Turk please kill yourself. Thanks

BaneSmash - 7/19/2014, 11:33 AM

Leave poor Jerk alone! He's lonely and needs attention! He's mad because his mother is refusing to breastfeed :(

BaneSmash - 7/19/2014, 11:33 AM

I meant turk......Sorry ;)

Azazel1 - 7/19/2014, 11:38 AM

@Joshwilding-Next time you go off in other users regarding spelling in articles, might want to check your own spelling...

ALegendaryPanda - 7/19/2014, 11:39 AM

@Bane

LOL

Azazel1 - 7/19/2014, 11:39 AM

@Imaginejim-Ahhh just saw you had already beaten me to the punch.

Yeah.

Joshwilding=hypocrite

Get used to it...

SauronsBANE - 7/19/2014, 11:40 AM

"...LIke, they aren't tragic cases like Mantinium where he's obviously so dumb that you feel sorry for him. These 3 are like a Trifecta of Failz"

LOL!

csdot - 7/19/2014, 11:45 AM

Finally checking this out later today

Dredd97 - 7/19/2014, 11:47 AM

Frickin fantastic movie! Andy Serkis deserves, nay, demands an Oscar!

Klone - 7/19/2014, 11:50 AM

Hercules looks like pure dogshit over bloated with CGI abominations, terrible comedy, the bad type of cliches and idiotic writing... in my opinion of course.

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