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\"\"<\/a>Life was too busy to post a box-office update last week, but that\u2019s okay, I think, since not a lot was happening then.<\/p>\n

The big story this week<\/a> is that Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/a><\/i> supposedly became the first film of the year to gross over $100 million in a single weekend (in North America, that is) \u2014 but that figure was quickly disputed by rival studios<\/a>, who said the film actually came in just a tiny bit beneath that amount. Whatever. It was still pretty huge.<\/p>\n

A recurring theme this year has been a tendency on the part of some people to dismiss the box-office performances of films that, when compared to other films made by the same people, didn\u2019t actually do all that badly, at least in their first few weeks.<\/p>\n

Last week, for example, Jersey Boys<\/a><\/i> opened to $13.3 million and was widely perceived as a box-office disappointment even though it had the fourth-best opening of any film directed by Clint Eastwood<\/a> \u2014 and Eastwood doesn\u2019t even act in the movie. (It was Eastwood\u2019s fifth-best opening if you count his acting-only gig in In the Line of Fire<\/i>, and his sixth-best if you also count the first weekend that Gran Torino<\/i> went into wide release rather than its first weekend in limited release.)<\/p>\n

Similarly, some pundits have written off the sci-fi time-loop movie Edge of Tomorrow<\/a><\/i> \u2014 and it\u2019s true that that film, now in its fourth week, currently ranks something like 20th among Tom Cruise\u2019s 38 films<\/a> in North America. But overseas, the film currently ranks 7th among Cruise\u2019s films \u2014 behind all four Mission: Impossibles<\/i>, War of the Worlds<\/i> and The Last Samurai<\/i> \u2014 and it ranks 10th among his films worldwide, behind those six films plus Minority Report<\/i>, Rain Man<\/i> and Top Gun<\/i>.<\/p>\n

On the \u201cfaith-based\u201d front, the most significant action these last two weeks has been the ongoing box-office performance of Noah<\/a><\/i> in Japan and the Philippines, where it is now in its third week. The film has earned about $8.7 million between those two countries so far, thereby raising its foreign total to $258 million. The film left North American theatres two weeks ago after earning $101.2 million on this continent, so that gives the film a worldwide total so far of $359.2 million.<\/p>\n

Also, there is some question as to how much the once-ballyhooed Alone Yet Not Alone<\/a><\/i> may have made since opening two weeks ago. Box Office Mojo<\/a> has no figures for that film at all beyond its rather small first weekend. But the film still seems to be playing in about 18 theatres<\/a> scattered across the United States.<\/p>\n

In other news\u2026<\/p>\n

Heaven Is for Real<\/a><\/i> earned $236,591 in its eleventh week, landing it in the #24 spot and raising its domestic total to $90.2 million. It has earned another $3.5 million overseas for a worldwide total of $93.7 million.<\/p>\n

Moms\u2019 Night Out<\/a><\/i> earned $83,745 in its eighth week, landing it in the #34 spot and raising its domestic total to $10.3 million. It has earned another $52,112 in Australia but does not appear to have been released in any other countries overseas.<\/p>\n

And God\u2019s Not Dead<\/a><\/i> earned $60,010 in its fifteenth week, landing it in the #40 spot and raising its domestic total to $60.6 million. It has earned another $1.6 million overseas for a worldwide total of $62.2 million.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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