'The Purge' Box Office Predictions: May Top 'The Internship' [VIDEO]
Bad news for actors Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson who star in The Intership.
The thriller The Purge is expected to gross more money than the comedy. Both movies have premiered in U.S. theaters on Friday.
The Purge has already brought in over $3 million, according to Gitesh Pandya from Box Office Guru.
"The Purge makes fantastic $3.4M THU night 10p on. More than AfterEarth & NowYouSeeMe last THU combined. Big #1 wknd ahead," he tweeted on Friday.
The Los Angeles Times has similar predictions for The Internship.
"The Internship" will probably fall behind the low-budget thriller The Purge," the newspaper wrote on Thursday. The horror flick, which stars Ethan Hawke "is expected to take in a robust $25 million during its opening weekend. The film's distributor, Universal Pictures, is predicting a softer start of around $18 million, according to the paper.
Such a low opening won't compare to Vaughan and Wilson's 2005 hit Wedding Crashers which took in over $200 million in the U.S. alone, according to the newspaper.
While Vaughan's movies following that one did well, such as The Break-Up, Four Christmases and Couples Retreat, the same can't be said about his later work. His last two films The Dilemma and The Watch were box office failures.
Wilson is in the same boat as Vaughan, with his recent movies Hall Pass and The Big Year. Both were also flops at the box office.
The Internship took 20th Century Fox and New Regency Pictures $58 million to create while Universal only spent $3 million for The Purge.
Despite the negative predictions, Vaughan had only positive words to say about the movie in an interview with IGN, which was published Friday.
When asked, "How does it feel to play characters who are this positive?" Vaughan replied,"I think that's really been the fun part of how the audiences are reacting to the movie, people really loving the film, and I think a big part of the reason why is when you see people in life where they've kind of hit a wall and they choose to kind of keep dreaming, and stay positive and try to believe there's something great out there for them, I think there's something really winning about that."
