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Box Office Weekend: Sniper Washed Out By SpongeBob

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

Warner Brothers has reasons to shout with both joy and shame this week. The studio’s American Sniper estimated $24.1 million puts it at $282.3 million and, most likely, the film to beat for 2015 box office (at least at this point), but it was finally topped in weekend earnings by The SpongeBob The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of WaterMovie: Sponge Out of Water (estimated $56 million). Adding major injury to this minor insult, Warner came up almost totally dry with Jupiter Ascending. At $176 million in budget costs alone, the latest offering from the Wachowskis debuted in third with an estimated $19 million, continuing a string of big budget flops for the director/writers. However, while likely not doing well, the unreported budget of the debuting Seventh Son is no consolation for the action fantasy epic and its estimated $7.1 million.

Paddington remains a domestic anomaly with an estimated $5.4 million giving it a $57.3 million total, but it has done much better overseas, with $208.1 million in worldwide revenue. Project Almanac, with an estimated $5.3 million, is nowhere near as successful, with $15.8 million in total domestic take. The Imitation Game, with an estimated $4.9 million, rests comfortably in-between, doing decent business here and abroad, even with an unreported budget.

The Wedding Ringer picked up an estimated $4.8 million and proved a mild success, which is more than can be said for Black or White, the Kevin Costner drama picking up only an estimated $4.5 million this weekend and $13.1 million in domestic totals. But perhaps not surprisingly, The Boy Next Door proved a very strong success with an estimated $4.1 million (more than its reported budget costs) and $30.9 million in domestic gross, proving once again that a low budget can prove a film successful against almost all critical reviews.

Weekend Box Office (February 6th – February 8th)

  1. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water…$56 million
  2. American Sniper…$24.1 million
  3. Jupiter Ascending…$19 million
  4. Seventh Son…$7.1 million
  5. Paddington…$5.4 million
  6. Project Almanac…$5.3 million
  7. The Imitation Game…$4.9 million
  8. The Wedding Ringer…$4.8 million
  9. Black or White…$4.5 million
  10. The Boy Next Door…$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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