Low-budget 'The Purge' pulls off box-office shocker

There's something powerful in the way horror movies and thrillers are able to tap into the cultural fears of a given moment. Whether it's the sexual politics of the 1980s slasher movie, or theMany assumed that the weekend before the debut of Man of Steel would be a calm one at the box office, but that was not the case. Universal's thriller The Purge surged into the top spot this weekend and shattered allThe micro-budget home-invasion thriller “The Purge” debuted with an estimated $36.3 million at the box office this weekend, putting the brakes on the two-week dominance of “Fast & Furious 6.” The big showing by “The Purge” means quite a return on theThe Purge earned an incredible $16.7 million on its first Friday (technically, that number includes Thursday night), and it's headed to an opening-weekend gross of about $37 million, giving producer Jason

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