Box Office Weekend: Almost Perfect for Pitch Perfect 2

Critical acclaim is not always everything. This weekend, the highly acclaimed fell to second against the mildly acclaimed. Pitch Perfect 2 has received a warm reception and a whopping estimated $70.3 million in its opening weekend, beating out Mad Max: Fury Road, which had an incredible critical reception but only a mild estimated $44.4 million weekend – enough to get a head start on its $150 million in costs, but not as much as its backers would have liked.

Meanwhile, first place favorite Avengers: Age of Ultron settled for third this week (passing Furious 7 in highest domestic revenue in the top ten), and while its estimated $38.9 million is a strong take for its third weekend, it is unlikely to make quite as much as the record-setting original Avengers domestically, though worldwide it will come quite close.

Beyond those three, drop-off was heavy, the second-place finisher of last week, Hot Pursuit, dipped to an estimated $5.8 million and still remains well below $35 million in domestic earnings. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 on the other hand managed to be mildly profitable as an estimated $3.6 million brought it above the break-even point and tied it with Furious 7 (also estimated $3.6 million), though Furious 7 casts a long shadow with $343.8 million in domestic revenue.

Of the last four films on the list, Home (in eighth place, estimated $2.7 million) is the only one that has reported its revenue, and has been a middling success counting its foreign box office take. Of the ones left, The Age of Adaline (seventh with an estimated $3.2 million) has fared the best in domestic box office with $37.1 million in gross, while Ex Machina (estimated $2.1 million) and Far from the Madding Crowd (estimated $1.3 million), which entered wider release this week, with $20 million and $2.6 million in earnings respectively, will have to be banking on low budgets in order to get them on solid financial footing.

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When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."

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