The Weekend Report Archive for January, 2015
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American Sniper continued to hold sway at the box office with an estimated weekend gross of $63.9 million. Trailing in second place was the debut of the sexual suspenser The Boy Next Door with $15 million. Two other titles opened nationally to close to D.O.A. results. The not so madcap comedy Mordecai bowed with $4.1 million and the not terribly animated Strange Music (“from the mind of George Lucas”) eked out $5.5 million.
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American Sniper is the big story at the box office, the #1 drama opening in movie history. Paddington and The Wedding Ringer each had $24m-$25m four-day openings. And The Imitation Game cracked $50 million.
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The national release of American Sniper was better than a bullseye with a record-breaking estimate of $89.3 million (all figures reflect 3-day box office) that represented roughly 45% of session box office. The Martin Luther King holiday frame saw three other national releases including strong returns of $20.9 million for the urban comedy The Wedding Ringer and $19 million for the beloved kid-lit bear Paddington. Conversely there was little threat from the hack attack Blackhat , which bowed to $4 million.
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The third installment of unlikely franchise Taken easily led weekend moviegoing with an estimated debut gross of $40.1 million. Trailing in second spot was the national expansion of Selma with $11.1 million. Also expanding from its Oscar qualifying run was Paul Thomas Anderson’s post-Altman Pynchon adaptation, the neo-noir Inherent Vice , which buzzed $2.8 million from 645 screens.
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The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies remained a hard habit to break as it retained the top spot in weekend movie going with an estimated $21.8 million. Christmas Day openers Into the Woods and Unbroken followed respectively with $18.8 million and $18.3 million and the session’s sole newcomer The Woman in Black: Angel of Death ranked fourth with $15 million. Exclusive newcomers included 2014’s last award’s contender A Most Violent Year with a potent opening weekend of $165,000 at four venues and Chinese blockbuster The Taking of Tiger Mountain with a sturdy $50,800 from seven screens. Box office revenues for the frame exceeded $155 million and ebbed from last weekend’s tally by 26%. It was however 11% improved from 2014 when Frozen inched ahead of newcomer Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones with $19.6 million to $18.3 million.
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