Mary Cybulski/Universal PicturesJeremy Renner in a scene from “The Bourne Legacy.”“The Bourne Legacy” managed to sell an estimated $40.3 million in tickets at North American movie theaters over the weekend, a No. 1 opening that was solid if not spectacular. “Legacy,” featuring Jeremy Renner, cost Universal Pictures and a financing partner at least $125 million to produce and tens of millions more to market.
Financial success now turns on how well Mr. Renner performs overseas, where his drawing power is untested. He has stepped in for Matt Damon, who helped power the last three movies in this series to over $1 billion in global ticket sales. But “Legacy,” directed and co-written by Tony Gilroy, received the worst reviews of the series. To compare, opening-weekend sales for “Legacy” were 14 percent better than they were for “The Bourne Identity” in 2002, after adjusting for inflation, and 46 percent below the opening total for its series predecessor, “The Bourne Ultimatum” in 2007.
For the weekend, “The Campaign” (Warner Brothers) was a tad softer than expected, taking in about $27.4 million, for second place, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles box-office data. “The Dark Knight Rises” was third, gobbling up another $19.5 million, for a four-week domestic total of about $390 million. Placing fourth was “Hope Springs,” a modest romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones and released by Sony; it took in a respectable $15.6 million, for a total since opening on Wednesday of about $20.1 million. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days” (20th Century Fox) was fifth, with an estimated $8.2 million in ticket sales, for a two-week total of about $30.6 million.
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