by Aitch Cee

As of Labor Day, the Summer Movie season ends. Here are a few interesting tidbits about this year as well as the top 10 movies of the summer:

 

• Versus the same period last year, box offices are down 14.6%  Source
• Speculation is that movies like Edge of Tomorrow, while garnering good reviews did not execute well    Source
• Some movies that were slated for Summer 2014 were moved, otherwise Summer numbers could have been better Source
• Comedies did not do well with only 2 making over 100 million dollars Source
• All in all, this summer was the worst for movies in 8 years Source

 

Many of the movies in the top 10, even though they did well, were sequels or remakes. As a matter of fact let’s see what those movies were:

Source

Rank	Movie Title	Total Domestic Gross	Worldwide gross	Budget to make
1	Guardians of the Galaxy	$281,204,119	554 mil	170 mil
2	Transformers: Age of Extinction	$244,435,833	1 billion	210 mil
3	Maleficent	$238,721,001	753 mil	180 mil
4	X-Men: Days of Future Past	$233,407,513	745 mil	200 mil
5	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	$205,531,338	611 mil	170 mil
6	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	$202,853,933	708 mil	N/A
7	Godzilla (2014)	$200,676,069	524 mil	160 mil
8	22 Jump Street	$190,651,027	314 mil	50 mil
9	How to Train Your Dragon 2	$174,014,832	598 mil	145 mil
10	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)	$166,277,985	278 mil	125 mil