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Box-Office: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Lead Slowest Weekend Of The Year, & Surpasses ‘Iron Man’ & ‘Man Of Steel’
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They say January is the dumping ground for movie releases, but audiences tend to forget that late August/early September is also a pretty piss-poor time at the box-office as well. And so it should be no surprise then that this past weekend was the slowest box-office weekend of the entire year. Worse, it was absolutely pitiful; the lowest grossing weekend at the box-office in at least ten years. You already knew the 2014 box-office was hurting—it’s been a dreadful season financially, not one domestic film to crack the $300 million mark—but this was a terrible ending to an underwhelming summer. What should have tipped you off was that there was one film in wide release: “The Identical,” a movie you had barely heard of and that completely flopped spectacularly (it’s a faith-based musical drama about an Elvis-like figure, oy). Freestyle Releasing opened the movie in almost 2,000 theaters, »
- Rodrigo Perez
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