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Box Office Weekend: Peabody Makes Big Comeback

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

Maybe it was word of mouth, maybe the time-traveling dog went through time to correct last week’s mistake, but audiences finally gave the dog of critically well-received Mr. Peabody & Sherman his day with a first-place finish and an estimated $21.2 million weekend at the box office. It topped both its release rival 300: Rise of an Empire (estimated $19.1 million) and newcomers Need for Speed (estimated $17.8 million) and Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (estimated $8.3 million), none of which have earned much praise from critics. While critics did not take Non-Stop well either, its estimated $10.6 million put it neatly into fourth place, along with being the only one of the top five to be domestically profitable.

The Lego Movie slides further down the list, but as a massive success; its estimated weekend take of $7.7 million added to a $236.9 million domestic total. Son of God has also done quite well, even despite an unreleased budget, as its weekend estimate of $5.8 million has brought it $50.9 million domestically. Meanwhile, the limited release of The Grand Budapest Hotel, the latest from Wes Anderson, got a good pickup from its second week, an estimated $3.6 million from only 66 theaters.

Finally, Frozen clings tightly to the top ten despite its release on home video this Tuesday, earning an estimated $2.1 million and becoming the fifteenth-highest earning film worldwide, only a few million behind Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. And debuting in the tenth spot, Veronica Mars, the Kickstarter-funded movie version of the television show, made an estimated $2 million…not enough to make back its $6 million costs, nor enough to please fans who had issues watching the digital download version from Flixster.

Weekend Box Office (March 14th – March 16th)
  1. Mr. Peabody & Sherman…$21.2 million
  2. 300: Rise of an Empire…$19.1 million
  3. Need for Speed…$17.8 million
  4. Non-Stop…$10.6 million
  5. Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club…$8.3 million
  6. The Lego Movie…$7.7 million
  7. Son of God…$5.8 million
  8. The Grand Budapest Hotel…$3.6 million
  9. Frozen…$2.1 million
  10. Veronica Mars…$2 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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