Friday Box Office Estimates Archive for February, 2014
Friday Box Office Estimates

The Lego Movie clicks into the top slot for the second weekend. Kevin Costner in faux-Neeson actioner 3 Days to Kill, from Relativity, places while Pompeii shows. In an unusual circumstance, Sony Pictures is responsible for 4 consecutive slots in the Top Ten (3-6) with 3 different divisions releasing and the 2 Columbia titles coming to the studio through very different means. On the smaller side, two films will do about $12k per screen for the weekend, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me and The Wind Rises.
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Everything remains awesome for The Lego Movie, with a Friday drop from last week that suggests an even better overall weekend drop. The Kevin Hart party continues with About Last Night, his third $30m+ opening in the last year. Romances Endless Love and Winter’s Tale probably hurt each other, with Endless looking at double the opening of the Tale. And RoboCop won’t quite make it to $20m, which in part may be the price of being one of two movies being opening by the same marketing department in the same week.
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Build them, and they will come: The Lego Movie fields WB’s dreams.
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The buddies of Ride Along will wrestle the buddies of That Awkward Moment for the top slot… though as this is Ride Along‘s third weekend on top, it can’t really lose. Even more so, both Universal and Focus are Comcast Kids, so the family is happy. Lone Survivor and The Wolf of Wall Street pass 100, Frozen passes 350, and The Nut Job stays on pace to outgross Jack Ryan: Shadow Flop.
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