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Fourth spot goes to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which will seemingly never go away. TMNT earned another $4.8 million this weekend, giving the Paramount reboot a drop compared to last weekend of 26%. Made for $125 million, the successful retooling of the franchise has now crossed the $300 million mark worldwide, with $181 million of that coming from the domestic side.

Fifth is Let’s Be Cops, another film propelled upward because there is simply nothing else out there to take its spot. Let’s Be Cops earned another $4.3 million this weekend, down a tidy 23% compared to last weekend. Made by Fox for only $17 million, this has been a top five film for five weekends, and now has a (ridiculous) running total of $73 million.

In sixth is The Drop, the Tom Hardy/Noomi Rapace/James Gandolfini drama that debuted this weekend at only 803 venues. The Drop managed $4.2 million from those theaters this weekend, a not-bad debut from what is essentially an art house release. Distributed by Fox Searchlight, The Drop was made for $12 million and is written by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone). It received extremely strong reviews, earning an 88% fresh rating at RottenTomatoes. If there is a film to recommend out there this weekend, it is likely this one, as this is a good, gritty film with a strong final performance from Gandolfini.

If I Stay tumbles from fourth last weekend to seventh this weekend. The Chloe Moretz starrer earned $4.1 million this weekend, giving the Kleenex-puller a drop of 27%. Still, the $11 million weeper is a strong earner for Warner Bros., as it has a domestic gross so far of $44.9 million.

The rest of the top ten are the leftovers from a sad late August/early September that we would all like to forget. Eighth is The November Man with Pierce Brosnan. It earned $2.7 million, fell 36%, and has a total now of $22.5 million against a $15 million budget. Ninth is The Giver, the movie based on the YA novel. The Weinstein Co. release earned another $2.6 million, declined 23%, and now has a total of $41.3 million.

Tenth this weekend goes to The Hundred-Foot Journey, Helen Mirren’s leggy entry into the late summer box office. The Disney distributed film earned $2.5 million in its sixth weekend of release, and has now pulled in $49.4 million against a $22 million budget.

In other box office news this weekend, The Weinstein Company debuted The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby on four screens, with the Jessica Chastain/James McAvoy flick earning $77,200, or $19,300 per screen. Finally, the Kristen Wiig starrer The Skeleton Twins debuted at 15 theatres, and pulled in $411,000j.

Overall this weekend, we have shaken off last weekend, but the box office is still struggling to match what happened last year. The top 12 films this weekend pulled in $78.8 million, 12% behind the $89.5 million earned last year when Insidious Chapter 2 opened to $40.3 million. Next weekend should bring some strength, as The Maze Runner opens, along with Kevin Smith’s Tusk, Liam Neeson’s A Walk Amongst The Tombstones, and This Is Where I Leave You, the comedy with Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Jane Fonda.

Top Weekend Box Office for 9/12/14-9/14/14 (Estimates)
Rank	Film	Distributor	Estimated Gross	Weekly Change	Running Total
1	No Good Deed		$24,500,000	New	$24,500,000
2	Dolphin Tale 2	WARNER BROS.	$16,550,000	New	$16,550,000
3	Guardians of the Galaxy	Disney	$8,041,000	- 22%	$305,926,000
4	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Paramount	$4,800,000	- 26%	$181,041,000
5	Let's Be Cops	Fox	$4,300,000	- 23%	$72,972,400
6	The Drop	FOX SEARCHLIGHT	$4,200,000	New	$4,200,000
7	If I Stay	Summit Entertainment	$4,050,000	- 27%	$44,937,000
8	The November Man	Relativity	$2,750,000	- 36%	$22,495,377
9	The Giver	Weinstein Co.	$2,626,000	- 23%	$41,329,400
10	The Hundred-Foot Journey	Disney	$2,461,000	- 22%	$49,409,000
11	When the Game Stands Tall	Sony	$2,375,000	- 30%	$26,550,000
12	As Above/So Below	Universal	$2,100,360	- 46%	$19,106,035
	Also Opening/Notables
	Atlas Shrugged Pt. 3	Atlas Distribution	$475,000	New	$475,000
	The Skeleton Twins	Roadside Attractions	$385,000	New	$385,000
	My Old Lady	Cohen Media	$133,601	New	$156,255
	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby	Weinstein Co.	$77,181	New	$77,181
	The Green Prince	Music Box Films	$38,000	New	$38,000
	Take Me To the River	Abramorama	$25,329	New	$25,329
	The Identical	Freestyle	$425,000	- 73%	$2,600,000
	Last Days In Vietnam	American Experience/pbs Films	$22,150	- 27%	$63,388
	Love Is Strange	Sony Classics	$380,248	+ 49%	$1,275,987
	The Expendables 3	Lionsgate	$900,000	- 51%	$38,250,000
	Lucy		$1,553,940	- 21%	$123,504,315
	Magic In the Moonlight	Sony Classics	$463,183	- 27%	$9,915,903
Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations

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