Maleficent Wins Weekend Box Office With $70 Million Opening

Posted on June 2, 2014

Maleficent won the box office this weekend with a $70 million opening. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Maleficent and Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora. It is the biggest opening film ever for Angelina.

Maleficent was followed by X-Men: Days of Future Past, which added a solid $32.6 million during its second weekend in theaters. It was followed by the Seth MacFarlane comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West, which made $17 million in 3,158 theaters. Godzilla came in fourth and made another $12.25 million in its third weekend in theaters.

Godzilla was followed by Blended, Neighbors, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Million Dollar Arm. You can view the complete box office chart here.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is about to overtake The Lego Movie as the top-earning film of 2014, so far. It has made $255 million and is only about $10,000 shy from taking the lead. You can the list of the top 2014 domestic grossing films here. Films this year tend to be opening very strong, but fading quickly due to all the strong competition each weekend from new opening films.

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