{"id":27868,"date":"2014-08-23T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=27868"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:33:56","slug":"sin-city-dame-kill-flops-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/08\/23\/sin-city-dame-kill-flops-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sin City: A Dame to Kill For&#8221; Flops at the Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ticket to &#8220;Sin City: A Dame to Kill For&#8221; was evidently not one for which to kill.<\/p>\n<p>The sequel to the 2005 hit earned an abysmal $2.6 million at the box office Friday, which puts it on track for a sub-$8 million weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Unless a miracle happens at the Saturday box office&#8211;and it will not&#8211;&#8220;Dame&#8221; will close its first weekend with less than one-third (and possibly even less than one-fourth) of the $29.1 million grossed by &#8220;Sin City&#8221; upon opening in April 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to that minuscule sum, &#8220;Dame&#8221; landed in sixth place on opening night.  &#8220;If I Stay&#8221; won Friday (but will likely slip to second by the end of the weekend) with $6.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guardians,&#8221; which is expected to charge past &#8220;If I Stay&#8221; by the end of the weekend, ranked second with roughly $5 million in Friday receipts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles&#8221; claimed third with $4.5 million, while &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Cops&#8221; remained in the mix with $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>New release &#8220;When the Game Stands Tall&#8221; claimed the #5 spot with $2.9 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27869,"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":[36,1050],"tags":[2691,2806,2808,2805,2726,2807],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Sin City: A Dame to Kill For&quot; Flops at the Box Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A ticket to &quot;Sin City: A Dame to Kill For&quot; was evidently not one for which to kill. 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