Guardians of the Galaxy Remains Box Office Champ, Now 2014's Biggest Domestic Hit

As Guardians of the Galaxy topped the Labor Day weekend box office in its fifth week in release, the Marvel sci-fi action-comedy also became 2014's biggest hit domestically.

Guardians finished the three-day weekend with an estimated $16.3 million. It is now the No. 1 movie of the year domestically followed by Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Guardians' worldwide total of $547.7 million makes it the year's 8th highest-grossing film internationally; Transformers: Age Of Extinction remains No. 1 worldwide with $1 billion.

Of the holiday weekend's new releases, the found footage film As Above/So Below fared best with an estimated haul of $8.3 million for fourth place. The Pierce Brosnan espionage film The November Man bowed in sixth place with a meek $7.7 million.

Sony's 30th anniversary re-release of a digitally remastered Ghostbusters opened on 784 screens for $1.7 million.

Last weekend's bomb Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For has already fallen out of the Top 10 in its second weekend.

Here are the three-day weekend box office estimates via Rentrak:

1. Guardians of the Galaxy $16.3 million

2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $11.8 million

3. If I Stay $9.3 million

4. As Above/So Below $8.3 million

5. Let's Be Cops $8.2 million

6. The November Man $7.7 million

7. When the Game Stands Tall $5.7 million

8. The Giver $5.3 million

9. The Hundred-Foot Journey $4.6 million

10. The Expendables 3 $3.5 million

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