BOX OFFICE: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Is Now The Top Domestic Film Of Summer 2014

With Guardians of the Galaxy set to return to the #1 spot this weekend as Sin City: A Dame to Kill For flops, the James Gunn helmed Marvel Studios movie will also become the highest grossing summer movie of 2014 beating Transformers: Age of Extinction!

By JoshWilding - Aug 23, 2014 11:08 AM EST

Filed Under: Guardians of the Galaxy

Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is a flop and soppy teen flick If I Stay (starring Kick-Ass' Chloe Grace Moretz) is also underperforming. That leaves the door wide open for Guardians of the Galaxy to return to the top spot - where it will also beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - and break another record at the same time. After earning a total of $239 million by yesterday, the James Gunn helmed movie look set to pass $246 million today meaning that it will top Transformers: Age of Extinction's $243.3 million domestic haul. By the end of the weekend, the latest Marvel Studios movie should reach $252 million! Maleficent is now at third with $237 million and is followed by X-Men: Days of Future Past with $232.6 million and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' $203.2 million. Of course, Transformers: Age of Extinction remains the year's highest grossing movie worldwide with over $1.05 billion. Guardians of the Galaxy - which cost $170 million to produce - is still doing well with $430.7 million and has yet to open in China and Japan.

'Guardians of the Galaxy' is less than a week away from passing 'Captain America' to become the #1 movie of the year: http://t.co/8bRZPmX9xJ
— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) August 23, 2014

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MrCBM56 - 8/23/2014, 11:17 AM

Oh... Yeah

Danbojohnj - 8/23/2014, 11:18 AM

Still not seen it,looking forward.

Demiurge - 8/23/2014, 11:22 AM

ArmGunar - 8/23/2014, 11:22 AM

Well deserved :)

Nivekian - 8/23/2014, 11:22 AM

Cool, Sin City deserved to flop, and I was looking forward to it.

defenderofthefaith - 8/23/2014, 11:24 AM

Maleficent just passed The X-Men at the world box office to make it the second highest grossing movie of the year behind only The Transformers. Maybe it's time to get Angelina in a new comic book movie.

chewiejr - 8/23/2014, 11:25 AM

Great for Guardians, but as much as it hurts me, I think at the worldwide box office TMNT is going to win.

I mean there is a ton of kids that were craving the TMNT movie but very few that knew about guardians.

DrKinsolving - 8/23/2014, 11:26 AM

SuperCat - 8/23/2014, 11:26 AM

Got to see this again!!

yonny616 - 8/23/2014, 11:30 AM

CaptainObvious - 8/23/2014, 11:31 AM

Suck it, Bay.

JoJo1982 - 8/23/2014, 11:32 AM

Hasn't open up in japan, china, and I think about 7 or 8 other countries

It will already be close to 600 million by the time it does open up in those 9 countries

JoJo1982 - 8/23/2014, 11:34 AM

defenderofthefaith - 8/23/2014, 11:24 AM

Maleficent just passed The X-Men at the world box office to make it the second highest grossing movie of the year behind only The Transformers. Maybe it's time to get Angelina in a new comic book movie.

@defenderofthefaith

Wanted?

NoPhucksGiven - 8/23/2014, 11:34 AM

Marvel really has something special with this project. I hope the sequel breaks even more records.

defenderofthefaith - 8/23/2014, 11:35 AM

Jojo- That is why I wrote NEW comic book movie.

batz11 - 8/23/2014, 11:35 AM

Imagine when the GotG and Avengers cross-over...damn, gotta be talking $2-2.5 Billion...mind-blowing!

ALegendaryPanda - 8/23/2014, 11:36 AM

Well done Guardians... well done.

JoJo1982 - 8/23/2014, 11:37 AM

As much as I love my DC movies, seriouse WB/DC should be scratching their head on seeing this movie being a big success for marvel

DeusExSponge - 8/23/2014, 11:39 AM

Snooper - It's a good movie, but the quality of a movie doesn't determine whether or not it's a flop at the box office. Maybe under perform is a better word, but it's no where near a success at the box office.

JoJo1982 - 8/23/2014, 11:39 AM

@ defenderofthefaith

I thought news was awhile they was going to bring her back from the dead somehow(flashback) for the sequel

EhMaybeSays - 8/23/2014, 11:39 AM

Still outside the Top 10 worldwide.

DaVinci31 - 8/23/2014, 11:41 AM

batz11 - 8/23/2014, 11:42 AM

Hasn't even opened in some of the larger foreign markets (China and Japan)

TheRationalNerd - 8/23/2014, 11:42 AM

As said in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes by Iron Man: "They're like the space Avengers" audiences love these team based superhero films. It's almost crazy to imagine that it still hasn't released in some places yet...

JoJo1982 - 8/23/2014, 11:42 AM

@Omega

Is it to early to predict GotG 2 making a billion in 2017(I finally notice Adam Warlock's cocoon was empty/destroyed in GotG post credit, so he has to be in sequel).

DeusExSponge - 8/23/2014, 11:43 AM

0mega - That retro picture of Star Lord is amazing!!!

TheRationalNerd - 8/23/2014, 11:44 AM

@MantiniuMan

Completely agreed with you man, last years MCU films compared to this years films is like a pebble compared to a boulder. The quality of the MCU films most certainly regained it's place in my heart this year.

SageMode - 8/23/2014, 11:45 AM

@0megadagod

Epic Rocket collage

SageMode - 8/23/2014, 11:45 AM

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