{"id":4699,"date":"2016-07-04T01:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/04\/finding-dory-is-1-but-the-purge-wins-big-at-the-weekend-box-office\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T01:51:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:51:24","slug":"finding-dory-is-1-but-the-purge-wins-big-at-the-weekend-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/04\/finding-dory-is-1-but-the-purge-wins-big-at-the-weekend-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Finding Dory&#039; is #1, but &#039;The Purge&#039; wins big at the weekend box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f134532%2f7c3087190cdb4712a0d71f01a265cab1\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/o4WgUvlBOCRPopODRYxteqtzaiA=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F134532%2F7c3087190cdb4712a0d71f01a265cab1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=%27Finding+Dory%27+is+%231%2C+but+%27The+Purge%27+wins+big+at+the+weekend+box+office&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F03%2Fpurge-election-year-box-office-weekend%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F03%2Fpurge-election-year-box-office-weekend%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Small budget, big audience: that&#8217;s <em>The Purge<\/em> way.<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director James DeMonaco has a great thing going with his action\/thriller series. Where most of the big summer openings look at a $30.9 million debut weekend and worry, that estimated total amounts to great business for <em>The Purge: Election Year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/30\/purge-election-year-review\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">&#8216;The Purge: Election Year&#8217; confronts ugly realities with B-movie thrills<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>DeMonaco keeps his budgets small, with <em>Election Year<\/em> having reportedly cost around $10 million to make. It&#8217;s the third in a series that has generally opened at around $30 million and amassed a box office warchest of roughly $70 million.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/03\/purge-election-year-box-office-weekend\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/the-bfg\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The Bfg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/the-legend-of-tarzan\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The Legend Of Tarzan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/finding-dory\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Finding Dory<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/the-purge-election-year\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">The Purge Election Year<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/box-office\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Box Office<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/wMUbOvymBWs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small budget, big audience: that&#8217;s The Purge way. Writer\/director James DeMonaco has a great thing going with his action\/thriller series. Where most of the big summer openings look at a $30.9 million debut weekend and worry, that estimated total amounts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/04\/finding-dory-is-1-but-the-purge-wins-big-at-the-weekend-box-office\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2023,3030,3623,3624,3625],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-box-office","tag-finding-dory","tag-the-bfg","tag-the-legend-of-tarzan","tag-the-purge-election-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}