{"id":15106,"date":"2012-08-11T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=15106"},"modified":"2012-08-11T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T17:12:21","slug":"the-bourne-legacy-the-campaign-better-than-expected-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2012\/08\/11\/the-bourne-legacy-the-campaign-better-than-expected-at-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Bourne Legacy,&#8221; &#8220;The Campaign&#8221; Better Than Expected at Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Bourne Legacy&#8221; and &#8220;The Campaign&#8221; got off to much stronger than expected starts at the box office Friday, and both now look likely to top reigning king &#8220;The Dark Knight Rises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;Bourne,&#8221; an overall weekend box office win is a near certainty.  The film grossed $14 million on Friday and should flirt with $40 million for the weekend, which is likely enough to double the total &#8220;TDKR&#8221; posts.  Though the opening for the latest &#8220;Bourne&#8221; film will significantly below that of &#8220;The Bourne Ultimatum&#8221; ($69.3 million), the last film to star Matt Damon in the lead role, it will still outpace initial projections by about $5-10 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Campaign,&#8221; on the other hand, is looking good for about $28 or $29 million this weekend after hauling $10.2 million on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>For its first Friday of release, &#8220;Hope Springs,&#8221; landed behind &#8220;TDKR&#8221; ($5.6 million Friday) on receipts of $4.7 million.  &#8220;Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days&#8221; finished out the top five with $2.9 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Bourne Legacy,&quot; 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