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Box Office Weekend: Lego Movie Builds Up to Retain Top Spot

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

Once again, The Lego Movie (of which a sequel was recently announced) managed to impress, grossing $275.7 million worldwide box office (in no little part to its continued success, with an estimated $31.5 million this weekend). It handily beat out the two big new releases, the Kevin Costner action thriller 3 Days to Kill (estimated $12.3 million) and the latest from Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson, Pompeii (estimated $10 million). Neither film is critically on par with The Lego Movie, either, but 3 Days to Kill has a much smaller $28 million budget to make up compared to Pompeii’s $100 million, making the latter less likely to earn back its keep.

RoboCop, meanwhile, has to rely on foreign dollars to make back most of its money, its estimated $9.4 million making it not much to talk about in the United States (though it has done well enough worldwide to make up its shortcomings). The Monuments Men (estimated $8.1 million) is in a similar but opposite boat, making most of its money here, but needing that little extra overseas push to make it profitable. About Last Night needs no help, however, its estimated $7.4 million making the romantic comedy more than successful over its costs ($38.2 million over a $12.5 million budget).

In “The Best of the Rest,” Ride Along cruises into its sixth week with an estimated $4.7 million and $123.2 million in domestic gross, but even this box office smash is dominated by Frozen, which left its fourteenth week with an estimated weekend gross of $4.4 million and $384.1 million in domestic totals, making it the third most successful film of 2013 (behind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Iron Man 3). Both stand tall over a minor success and a flop: Endless Love managed to limp into domestic profit with an estimated $4.3 million, but Winter’s Tale (estimated $2.1 million) is less impressive, with only $11.2 million made in total against a $60 million budget.

Weekend Box Office (February 19th – February 23rd)
  1. The Lego Movie…$31.5 million
  2. 3 Days to Kill…$12.3 million
  3. Pompeii…$10 million
  4. RoboCop…$9.4 million
  5. The Monuments Men…$8.1 million
  6. About Last Night…$7.4 million
  7. Ride Along…$4.7 million
  8. Frozen…$4.4 million
  9. Endless Love…$4.3 million
  10. Winter’s Tale…$2.1 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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