--- description: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is still dominating the weekend box office numbers. title: After Labor Day Box Office Numbers Place Guardians on Top image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7efa553697502d1/69869e37810bbbce71c92dc2/3650073-guardians-of-the-galaxy-hi-res-photo-11.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Guardians of the Galaxy_ Still Dominating Weak Summer Box Office by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 7, 2014 6:03 PM CUT  Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy." Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy."Marvel by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 7, 2014 6:03 PM CUT Marvel’s _Guardians of the Galaxy_ is still dominating the weekend box office numbers, bringing in an estimated $10.16 million over the historically slow weekend after Labor Day alone. This is the film’s fourth weekend atop the weekend box office, bringing the space adventure/comedy’s total global ticket sales to over $586 million worldwide, _The Wrap_ [reports](http://www.thewrap.com/terrible-box-office-summer-bleeds-into-first-fall-weekend-as-guardians-wins-again/ "undefined"). Coming in second this weekend is the turbo-charged remake of _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_, which raked in about $6.5 million despite [generally poor reviews.](http://time.com/3089277/review-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mock-turtle/ "undefined") “. . .I’d rather watch a feline at a piano with eating implements tied to its paws than another movie of Michael Bay’s ham-fisted _Turtles,_” TIME film critic Richard Corliss wrote in his [review](http://time.com/3089277/review-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mock-turtle/ "undefined"). \[[_The Wrap_](http://www.thewrap.com/terrible-box-office-summer-bleeds-into-first-fall-weekend-as-guardians-wins-again/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3292743/guardians-galaxy-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3292743/guardians-galaxy-box-office/"},"headline":"Guardians of the Galaxy Still Dominating Weak Summer Box Office","datePublished":"2014-09-07T18:03:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:02:53.737Z","description":"The box office smash raked in over $586 million this summer in total","url":"https://time.com/3292743/guardians-galaxy-box-office/","keywords":["movies","Box-office","guardians of the galaxy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7efa553697502d1/69869e37810bbbce71c92dc2/3650073-guardians-of-the-galaxy-hi-res-photo-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7efa553697502d1/69869e37810bbbce71c92dc2/3650073-guardians-of-the-galaxy-hi-res-photo-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"From left: Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) and Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer in Marvel's \"Guardians of the Galaxy.\"","caption":"From left: Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) and Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer in Marvel's \"Guardians of the Galaxy.\"","creditText":"Marvel","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3292743/guardians-galaxy-box-office/","name":"Guardians of the Galaxy Still Dominating Weak Summer Box Office"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Guardians of the Galaxy Full Trailer Official","description":"Guardians of the Galaxy Full Trailer Official","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/H4IU6dPN/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-07-29T18:55:08.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/H4IU6dPN.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3292743/guardians-galaxy-box-office/","duration":"PT2M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3292743/guardians-galaxy-box-office/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```