US Box Office Weekend Report 30th May - 1st June 2014: Maleficent conjures her way to a top spot debut

By Robert Hyde • Published: 3rd June 2014 • Total Views: 985

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Americans were spellbound by Angelina Jolie this week as she takes her Disney film Maleficent to the top.

Disney hyped the film to hell and the marketing dollars have paid off as the Sleeping Beauty villain goes right to the top in it;s debut week with a comfortable $70 million.

Falling a single place to number 2 this week is X-Men Days of Future Past which grosses $32.6 million over the weekend.

There were no other new films on the US box office this week.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

Maleficent - $69,431,298
X-Men: Days of Future Past - $32,551,098
A Million Ways to Die In the West - $16,797,385
Godzilla - $12,008,129
Blended - $8,144,303
Bad Neighbours - $8,080,645
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - $3,778,605
Million Dollar Arm - $3,588,444
Chef - $1,911,548
The Other Woman - $1,388,886

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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.

After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.

6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.

8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.