Dawn of the Planet of the Apes On Pace for $70 Million Weekend

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is set to generate $70 million at the U.S. box office this [...]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is set to generate $70 million at the U.S. box office this weekend.

The film will do it without almost any marketable stars; Lord of the Rings motion-capture superstar Andy Serkis is in the film, and so is Gary Oldman, but neither of them are the kind of leading man you think of when you want to open a blockbuster.

Deadline project the movie will do about 30% better than the previous installment, which ultimately ended up with $176 million by the end of its theatrical run and is currently the second highest-grossing Apes movie of all time, behind 2001's Tim Burton reboot.

The film made $27 million on Friday to set the pace; it could go as high as $75 million, depending on how well it performs today.

BOOM! Studios will launch a comic book miniseries this fall, with a one-shot exclusive book at Comic Con International: San Diego later this month, that fills in the ten-year gap between Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

The #2 movie of the week will be Transformers: Age of Extinction, with $16 million.

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