There is very little to say about the four-day holiday weekend box office, which saw two openers do relatively well, but not remarkably–“The Possession” with $21.3m and “Lawless” with $13.0m–and nearly every holdover play to expectation. The one exception was the conservative documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” which grossed a surprisingly strong $7.1m, signaling that viewers outside of the core first-weekend Tea Party audience are giving the movie a try.
On the specialty circuit, there were a few solid performers — Focus’ phone sex comedy “For a Good Time, Call…” pulled in $186,000 from 23 sites for a per-theater-average of $8,087, Indomina’s IMAX 3D-only release of Jet Li’s “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate” did $125,000 on 15 screens for an average of $8,333, and IFC’s “Sleepwalk with Me” continued to do well with $409,000 from 29 theaters ($14,103 average). But will any of these become the indie breakout of late summer/early fall? It’s highly unlikely.
Check out the full four-day top 10 chart…
| No. | Title | Weekend | Per Theater Average | Total |
| 1 | “The Possession” | $21.3M | $7,564 | $21.3M |
| 2 | “Lawless” | $13.0M | $4,501 | $15.1M |
| 3 | “The Expendables 2” | $11.2M | $3,359 | $68.6M |
| 4 | “The Bourne Legacy” | $9.8M | $2,995 | $98.4M |
| 5 | “ParaNorman” | $8.9M | $2,870 | $40.3M |
| 6 | “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” | $8.5M | $3,227 | $38.8M |
| 7 | “The Dark Knight Rises” | $7.9M | $3,626 | $433.2M |
| 8 | “2016: Obama’s America” | $7.1M | $4,057 | $20.2M |
| 9 | “The Campaign” | $7.0M | $2,387 | $74.6M |
| 10 | “Hope Springs” | $6.0M | $2,458 | $53.4M |
Source: Box Office Mojo