Wednesday 12 February 2014

FEB 7-9 BOX OFFICE REPORT: THE LEGO MOVIE FITS RIGHT IN ON TOP


Barely a weekend goes past without a significant record being at least met these days at the domestic box office. The LEGO Movie may have missed marks such as highest February opening of all time (second, behind The Passion of the Christ), and highest opening ever for an 'original' animated film (fifth on that one, and higher than Frozen), but its $69.1 million start is still a damn good one. Everything is awesome indeed for the film, so awesome in fact that a sequel is already in the works. And so three-times champ Ride Along drops to third with $9.6 million, but passes $100 million in so doing. The Monuments Men fares far better outside of prime Oscar season than it might have done had Sony stuck to their initial plans for George Clooney's film: $22 million is easily the biggest opening of his directorial career to date, though the reviews for the film have been easily among the worst. Not nearly as bad as the financial performance of the latest YA adaptation wannabe, Vampire Academy, whose $3.9 million was only good enough for seventh place. In its fifth weekend in wide release, Lone Survivor hangs on to a position in the Top 5; in its eleventh in wide, Frozen does the same, and is now 2013's third-highest-grosser, ahead of Despicable Me 2. Are such figures reachable for The LEGO Movie? A strong start and great reviews may suggest so, but those are incredible numbers Frozen has continued to post over its twelve weeks in release. Limited releases were just that: limited, with The Last of the Unjust unjustly making 53rd place, and A Field in England rather more justly stranded in 56th place.

Top 10
  1. The LEGO Movie ($69,050,279)
  2. The Monuments Men ($22,003,433)
  3. Ride Along ($9,589,940)
  4. Frozen ($6,872,811)
  5. Lone Survivor ($5,565,860)
  6. That Awkward Moment ($5,237,186)
  7. Vampire Academy ($3,921,742)
  8. The Nut Job ($3,753,080)
  9. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit ($3,531,287)
  10. Labour Day ($3,184,785)

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