Horror, Scifi, Thriller Box Office Numbers, DVD Sales, and Television Viewership for the week of August 15 to August 21, 2014.
I almost started calling it scifi sales this week because there’s almost no horror titles anywhere. Luckily, that will all change next week.
Box Office: Scifi-thriller The Giver debuts at #5. God, I can remember having to read that book in middle school!
1 1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $39,567,000 (Total: $128,809,000)
2 2 Guardians of the Galaxy $36,708,000 (Total: $234,253,000)
5 The Giver $17,370,000
6 3 Into the Storm $10,879,000 (Total: $34,501,000)
8 5 Lucy $8,015,000 (Total: $110,235,000)
10 8 Hercules $3,045,000 (Total: $69,085,000)
12 10 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $2,948,000 (Total: $202,860,000)
19 12 The Purge: Anarchy $911,000 (Total: $70,405,000)
21 19 Maleficent $598,000 (Total: $237,011,000)
26 25 X-Men: Days of Future Past $363,000 (Total: $232,603,000)
28 20 Transformers: Age of Extinction $302,000 (Total: $234,394,000)
32 30 Earth to Echo $147,000 (Total: $37,728,000)
35 34 Godzilla $119,000 (Total: $200,626,00)
DVD Top 20: Sales for the current week.
2 Transcendence
18 14 Robocop
Television Viewership: The first episode of “Wizard Wars” debuts to a little over one million viewers. It should be interesting to see how it continues in the future. Also, “Under the Dome” is seeing a last minute serge in viewership.
Under the Dome – 7,300,000
Extant – 5,570,000
True Blood – 3,556,000
The Strain – 2,483,000
Falling Skies – 2,464,000
Pretty Little Liars – 1,801,000
The Leftovers – 1,636,00
Teen Wolf – 1,484,000
Defiance – 1,470,000
Face Off – 1,221,000
Witches of East End – 1,146,000
Wizard Wars – 1,015,000
