Box Office Weekend: The Force Awakens Still On Top

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has only been in theaters for ten days, but not only is it still far and away the box office champ with a whopping $152.5 million estimated total for the weekend, but is also the fastest film to $500 million in revenue, best second weekend total on record, best opening of all-time, and is on track to potentially being the highest earning movie of all-time as well (among a bevy of other box office records). Not likely to be winning a lot of records is Daddy’s Home, the critically slammed comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell. Coming in second with an estimated $38.8 million, it did not fare too badly against the Disney/Lucasfilm juggernaut, but with no reported budget it is unclear how well or poorly it did. Joy, on the other hand, definitely underperformed; with an estimated $17.5 million in box office for the weekend, its $60 million production budget makes the Jennifer Lawrence-starring drama look like a flop in the making.

Sisters may have fallen a place to fourth, but actually settled in for almost equal standing at the box office from the previous week, scoring an estimated $13.9 million, though it still has a ways to ago to make good on its $30 million budget. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, in the meantime, earned an estimated $12.7 million on an unreported budget, but based on the $75 million costs of the last two movies, the $37.1 million it has earned in total domestic gross is looking bad for the franchise as a whole.

Concussion made a mostly positive critical start, but a rough opening weekend, bringing in an estimated $11 million on a $35 million budget. While that nonfiction story is brought to the big screen, another film made a surprising grab for the top ten in The Big Short. Though in its third week of release, it opened to wide release with an estimated $10.5 million, and while its domestic total has a ways to go before covering its $28 million costs, the Adam McKay-directed comedy/drama about the 2008 housing bubble has gotten rave reviews; whether it has staying power is another thing entirely.

The final three spots, Point Break opened to massive disappointment. Unable to make much on its nostalgia trip, the remake of the 1980s cult classic debuted in eighth to an estimated $10.2 million. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 will likely finish its top ten run soon, with an estimated $5.3 million adding to a somewhat disappointing domestic total, but a worldwide win with an estimated $616.8 million for the final entry in the franchise. Creed, too, will likely be seeing an end to its top ten run as well, but like its characters, it went out fighting, bringing an estimated $4.6 million to a decent $96.3 million domestic gross.

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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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