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Box Office Weekend: Non-Stop Gets Off to Fast Start

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

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.

Weekend Box Office (February 28th – March 2nd)
  1. Non-Stop…$30 million
  2. Son of God…$26.5 million
  3. The Lego Movie…$21 million
  4. The Monuments Men…$5 million
  5. 3 Days to Kill…$4.9 million
  6. RoboCop…$4.5 million
  7. Pompeii…$4.3 million
  8. Frozen…$3.6 million
  9. About Last Night…$3.4 million
  10. Ride Along…$3.1 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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