Box Office June 7-June 9, 2013

This was really the first weekend of the summer without a projected blockbuster style movie and surprisingly The Purge took home the box office crown this week bringing in over $36 million. While the new Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson movie The Internship could only muster 4th place in it's opening weekend, in what you have to believe is a very disappointing start for the comedy that had a $58 million budget.  In independent box office news, Much Ado About Nothing easily had the best per screen average bringing in $183,000 while only playing at 5 venues, very positive sign for Joss Whedon's pet project.

Things are going to heat up at the box office this weekend with Man of Steel opening up and early projections are hopeful it will cross the $100 million mark opening weekend.  Also the very hilarious This is the End hitting the big screens on Wednesday.

1	N	The Purge	Uni.	$36,379,000	-	2,536	-	$14,345	$36,379,000	$3	1
2	1	Fast & Furious 6	Uni.	$19,760,000	-43.8%	3,771	+85	$5,240	$202,946,000	$160	3
3	2	Now You See Me	LG/S	$19,500,000	-33.6%	3,020	+95	$6,457	$61,374,000	$75	2
4	N	The Internship	Fox	$18,100,000	-	3,366	-	$5,377	$18,100,000	$58	1
5	5	Epic	Fox	$12,100,000	-27.2%	3,594	-300	$3,367	$84,155,000	$100	3
6	4	Star Trek Into Darkness	Par.	$11,700,000	-30.3%	3,152	-433	$3,712	$200,140,000	$190	4
7	3	After Earth	Sony	$11,200,000	-59.3%	3,401	-	$3,293	$46,592,000	$130	2
8	6	The Hangover Part III	WB	$7,380,000	-55.0%	3,242	-323	$2,276	$102,374,000	$103	3
9	7	Iron Man 3	BV	$5,787,000	-31.5%	2,351	-544	$2,462	$394,316,000	$200	6
10	8	The Great Gatsby (2013)	WB	$4,230,000	-35.1%	2,160	-475	$1,958	$136,175,000	$105	5

Credit goes to BoxOfficeMojo.com for the table and numbers.