Box office sits in eerily quiet zone between end of ‘Furious 7’ and launch of ‘Avengers’

Box office sits in eerily quiet zone between end of ‘Furious 7’ and launch of ‘Avengers’

The top three earners on this sedate box office weekend will be 'Furious 7,' 'The Age of Adaline' and 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.'

The box office numbers this weekend will be a little quiet, with no big tent-pole movies opening until Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron debuts next Thursday. Furious will likely continue its impressive run and stay on top, with a projected take of around $20 million, down only 31% from last weekend.

Second place will probably go to The Age of Adaline, a historical fantasy romance starring Blake Lively. Adaline is Lively’s first film role since her starring turn in the Oliver Stone crime film Savages in 2012. The new film, which stars Lively as a woman who becomes permanently stuck at age 29, is expected to earn around $11-14 million.

Paul Blart: Moll Cop 2 is expected to take third, although it may get a second wind and beat Adaline. The sequel, which has a dismal 2 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, will have a box office of about $12.5 million this weekend, bringing its total to around $40 million.

The Universal/Blumhouse technological horror movie Unfriended will make around $7 million, good enough for fourth place. The film, which follows a dead teenage girl who haunts social networking websites to seek revenge on the people who cyberbullied her, has been praised for transcending horror movie cliches.

To round out the top five,The British sci-fi thriller Ex Machina is expected to do $2.5-4 million dollars of business in its third week. Its distributor is releasing the film in around 1,200 theaters this weekend, a notable increase from 39 a week ago.

Little Boy, a Christian-themed World War II picture will take sixth in its first weekend. This film features Kevin James, the star of Paul Blart, in a serious rather than comedic role. James seems to be having as hard a time pleasing critics with drama as with humor, because Little Boy is managing only a 7 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

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