Box Office: 'If I Stay' Aims for No. 1 Friday While 'Sin City 2' Faces Bleak Future
New Line and MGM's YA tearjerker If I Stay is winning the Friday box office for a projected $16 million-plus weekend. While that's far less than the $48 million launch of The Fault in Our Stars earlier this summer, it's a solid start for the $11 million film.
The girl-fueled movie is expected to earn in the $6.2 million range on Friday, including $1.1 million from Thursday night show.
If I Stay stars Chloe Grace Moretz as a 17-year-old girl whose family is killed in a car accident. The accident puts her in a coma, and as she wavers between life and death, she must decide if she'll fight to live for her boyfriend or join her family in death. R.J . Cutler is making his feature directorial debuton the adaptation of Gayle Forman's novel.
The weekend's other new high-profile opening, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, is struggling, and may only open in the $10 million to $12 million range for the weekend. Directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, the sequel opens nine years after Sin City launched to more than $29 million.
Box office observers say moviegoing is weaker than expected overall, even impacting If I Stay, which had been tracking to bow to $18 million-plus.
One exception is Sony's new faith-based high school football drama When the Game Stands Tall, which is expected to earn $9 million to $11 million, putting it in a potentially close race with Sin City 2 for No. 4.
Holdovers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Guardians of the Galaxy are expected to place No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, although Guardians could make life tough for If I Stay.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is pacing to gross north of $3 million for the day after earning a tepid $475,000 Thursday.
Dimension Films and The Weinstein Co. are releasing the R-rated sequel, which is produced by Rodriguez's Quick Draw Productions, , AR Films, Miramax and Solipsist. The movies sees returning castmembers Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis.
Jim Caviezel, Laura Dern, Michael Chiklis and Alexander Ludwig star in When the Game Stands Tall, which is based on the story of Northern California high school De La Salle's 151-game winning streak, and what happened after the team finally lost. The movie was produced by Sony's faith-based label Affirm.
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