Box office: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' breaks record with $94 million

Box office: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' breaks record with $94 million

That's the highest August debut in history - by a wide margin. (The previous record was $69M.)

"One more fun stat: Guardians is Marvel’s ninth (!) consecutive No. 1 movie, a streak that reaches back to Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012), which debuted at No. 3."

"The weekend’s other new wide release, the James Brown biopic Get On Up, earned an estimated $14 million, coming in at third place."

Both of those films had CinemaScores of A.

"In the specialty market, two critical darlings raised their theater counts with promising results: The Philip Seymour Hoffman thriller A Most Wanted Man expanded into 729 theaters, earning $3.3 million for a total of $7.1 million, while Richard Linklater’s time-spanning opus Boyhood grew to 311 theaters and earned $2.52 million this weekend, bringing its total to $7.57 million."