Monday Morning Box Office Report: San Andreas Topples the Competition

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Dwayne Johnson finally proved that he can carry a major blockbuster all on his own as the earthquake thriller San Andreas recorded a better than expected $53 million on the Richter scale over the weekend. That’s the biggest debut ever for The Rock in a movie where he wasn’t part of an ensemble cast and it is significantly more than Hercules made last summer. Elsewhere Pitch Perfect 2 had another great weekend, remaining in second place, while Tomorrowland suffered a 58% drop to third place. Mad Max: Fury Road and The Avengers: Age of Ultron rounded out the top 5. In sixth place, Cameron Crowe’s Aloha tanked with just $10 million, a definite disappointment given its star-studded cast. To be fair, that’s about the same amount that Crowe’s last two movies made, so perhaps his popularity as a filmmaker has simply peaked and levelled off.

1. San Andreas — $53.22M
2. Pitch Perfect 2 — $14.38M
3. Tomorrowland — $13.8M
4. Mad Max: Fury Road — $13.63M
5. The Avengers: Age of Ultron — $10.92M
6. Aloha — $10M
7. Poltergeist — $7.8M
8. Far from the Madding Crowd — $1.42M
9. Hot Pursuit — $1.37M
10. Home — $1.15M



  • B MP Rooney

    Is San Andreas worth seeing though?

  • D.Johnson

    “San Andreas Rocks the Competition” C’mon Sean, don’t get lazy, you missed an easy opportunity with this one.

  • Sean
  • iammattz

    He may editorialize, but damn it, he has standards!

  • LordAwesome

    The Rock had about as much affect on the box office of SAN ANDREAS as John Cusack did with 2012.

    Big budget disaster movies with massive CGI setpieces sell well no matter who stars in them.

  • Sean

    I don’t know about that. Disaster movies were big in the ’90s but they’ve kind of fallen off in recent years. Into the Storm didn’t do that great last year and neither did Pompeii. The Impossible made only $19 million domestically a couple of years back. San Andreas was marketed and sold almost entirely on The Rock.

  • Deven Science

    But goddamn, this looks so dumb! Makes me weep.

  • Flo Lieb

    The Impossible was a huge success in Spain though. Even with the whitewashing.