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Box Office Weekend: Ride Along Overtakes Lone Survivor

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

While it has still made out big and done massive business, the audience and critical favorite Lone Survivor fell to second place at the box office with an estimated $23.2 million. Its successor? The buddy cop comedy Ride Along, which did not make the critics happy, but did some nice business for itself with an estimated $41.2 million at the box office…especially nice business considering that is the highest opening domestic weekend of any January release. Third-place finisher The Nut Job (estimated $20.6 million) fell short of being profitable (or of being critically acclaimed), but did surprisingly well against its own $42 million costs. However, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, while it did score well enough with critics, was only able to pick up an estimated $17.2 million against a much higher $60 million budget.

Despite a tumble to fifth, Frozen can still draw a crowd, even after nine weeks, earning an estimated $12 million and the title of box office smash with its $332.6 million domestic total. American Hustle is not looking too shabby, either, its $10.6 million estimate adding extra flair to a film that has already broken the $100 million barrier. Not likely to reach that lofty height is Devil’s Due, but even at an $8.5 million estimate the found footage horror flick has already made a profit (though a razor thin one compared to the past performance of similar films; Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones has reached $31.2 million for its third week).

August: Osage County moved up in the rankings and in earnings, picking up wider release and an estimated $7.6 million at the same time. The Wolf of Wall Street sank with an estimated $7.5 million, but the Martin Scorsese film is still likely to break even domestically, having earned $90.3 million in four weeks and broken the $100 million barrier counting its worldwide sales. But leave it to Walt Disney to once again go out a box office winner, even when Disney is the subject and not solely the producer; Saving Mr. Banks, with an estimated $4.1 million, has so far earned $75.4 million on a $35 million budget.

Weekend Box Office (January 17th – January 19th)
  1. Ride Along…$41.2 million
  2. Lone Survivor…$23.2 million
  3. The Nut Job…$20.6 million
  4. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit…$17.2 million
  5. Frozen…$12 million
  6. American Hustle…$10.6 million
  7. Devil’s Due…$8.5 million
  8. August: Osage County…$7.6 million
  9. The Wolf of Wall Street…$7.5 million
  10. Saving Mr. Banks…$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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