Box Office Weekend: Non-Stop Gets Off to Fast Start
The Lego Movie (estimated $21 million) finally met its match at the box office this week, falling out of the spotlight to the Liam Neeson thrill ride Non-Stop, which led the pack with an estimated $30 million. Despite mixed reviews, it made an excellent start on its $50 million budget. Not far behind, the biblical epic Son of God made an estimated $26.5 million, finding a strong audience but critical disdain. Whether it is a success or not is a mystery, as its budget remains unreported.
No other film cracked double digit earnings this weekend, and low single digit earnings at that; The Monuments Men remained the strongest overall with an estimated $5 million, and still has a shot of breaking even domestically on a somewhat disappointing box office performance, considering the star power behind it. 3 Days to Kill (estimated $4.9 million) seems barely able to do that, still unable to make back its $28 million costs by week two. Still, both have the potential to do so; a domestic profit on RoboCop (estimated $4.5 million) now seems out of reach, even though it has been quite popular worldwide with $151.2 million in worldwide take. But no amount of money seems able to help Pompeii; an estimated $4.3 million showcases a film that cannot make back its $100 million no matter where it is shown.
Frozen, meanwhile, leads the best of the rest, and leading it is. With a whopping fifteen weeks of release (most of them in the top ten), its estimated $3.6 million gives it $388.7 million domestically and $1 billion in worldwide gross. And even if they sit at the bottom of the top ten, About Last Night remains a success in its own right, an estimated $3.4 million bringing it $43.8 million on domestic sales, well above its $12.5 million costs, and Ride Along (estimated $3.1 million) is a success by any measure with $127.2 million domestic gross, making back five times its costs.
- Non-Stop…$30 million
- Son of God…$26.5 million
- The Lego Movie…$21 million
- The Monuments Men…$5 million
- 3 Days to Kill…$4.9 million
- RoboCop…$4.5 million
- Pompeii…$4.3 million
- Frozen…$3.6 million
- About Last Night…$3.4 million
- Ride Along…$3.1 million
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