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Box Office Weekend: Kung Fu Panda 3 Holds Against a Conquering Caesar

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

While many may have skipped the theater on Sunday to catch the Super Bowl (as evidenced by the lowest box office earning weekend of the year), there is still a handful of debuts that tried their best to catch an audience. Critics are finding mostly good things to say about the latest Coen Brothers film, Hail, Caesar!, and though it did middling against its $22 million budget by opening in second place with an estimated $11.4 million, it could not come close to taking the crown from Kung Fu Panda 3. While an estimated $21 million has brought the latest animated adventures of Po and company to $69.1 million domestically, foreign box office is almost double that amount.

The Revenant and its estimated $7.1 million may be showing signs of slowdown, but with a worldwide gross of $326.1 million it proved a definite winner, while Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke another record with its estimated $6.9 million, becoming the first domestic movie to pass the $900 million barrier at the box office. Unfortunately, this weekend appeared to be a bad time to release The Choice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…while both films scored low with critics, The Choice, based on the latest romantic drama from Nicholas Sparks, scored an all-time low for an adaptation from his works, earning an estimated $6.1 million on its opening weekend. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, aiming for a decidedly less romantic crowd, brought in an estimated $5.2 million on what may be a tough climb to earn against a $28 million budget.

The Finest Hours is flagging, an estimated $4.7 million adding to an $18.4 million total, an amount unlikely to be enough to cover the costs of the sea adventure. However, considering worldwide total, Ride Along 2 will likely end as a decent success. Though an estimated $4.5 million is bringing it up short of the original and its surprise performance, it has still managed to bring in $100 million in worldwide earnings. The Boy may not be as rousing of a success story, but as an estimated $4.1 million brings it to $26.9 million over a $10 million budget, it is still adding up to a financial success, if not a critical one. And in tenth, Dirty Grandpa clings to life, coming in just under The Boy with a contested estimate of $4.1 million, but the Robert De Niro comedy has proven unpopular with critics and audiences alike, the film remaining in the dark about its budget and only $29.4 million pulled in so far (and no foreign box office to bolster it).

Weekend Box Office (February 5th – February 7th)

  1. Kung Fu Panda 3…$21 million
  2. Hail, Caesar!…$11.4 million
  3. The Revenant…$7.1 million
  4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens…$6.9 million
  5. The Choice…$6.1 million
  6. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…$5.2 million
  7. The Finest Hours…$4.7 million
  8. Ride Along 2…$4.5 million
  9. The Boy…$4.1 million
  10. Dirty Grandpa…$4.1 million

Seth Paul

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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