Box Office Weekend: Furious 7 Bests Paul Blart

Even with three major debuts, very little can stop the car-crunching excess of Furious 7, which held the top spot at the box office yet again for a third week with an estimated $29.1 million. However, despite the fact the film has now made over a billion dollars in worldwide revenue, the weekend is beginning to show cracks, as second-place finisher Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 came close with an estimated $24 million. Though a decent start for a film that cost $30 million, the comedy sequel has been severely lambasted by critics and has not shown much hope with audiences, either. On the other end, audiences have been mixed about Unfriended, which earned an estimated $16 million, but critics have been slightly more positive about it, which is more than can be said about almost every found footage horror film of the past year.

Home will soon break even thanks to worldwide gross, but its estimated $10.3 million only adds up to a minor success. The Longest Ride, with an unreported budget, is likely not doing too well either, remaining the lowest earning Nicholas Sparks’ adaptation to date even after a second weekend and an estimated $6.9 million. In the meantime, Get Hard is closer to Home in terms of success, an estimated $4.8 million adding to a successful run if one counts worldwide take, but at only $40 million to make it much less of a hurdle to climb.

Monkey Kingdom, the latest DisneyNature documentary, opened to critical acclaim but the lowest opening of a DisneyNature film yet with an estimated $4.7 million, though considering Earth (2007) is the highest earning film of the brand with $32 million, expectations for huge profits is probably not particularly high (especially as the only one to release its budget, Oceans (2009), cost $80 million to make and did not see much financial return on that investment).

Woman in Gold added 500 more theaters to its showings, but lost in weekend earning with only an estimated $4.6 million more to its $15.9 million in revenue. The Divergent Series: Insurgent, with an estimated $4.2 million, has, like much on this list, become a minor success when counting its worldwide gross, but failed to capture as much as would likely be hoped. However, tenth-place finisher Cinderella is a success on a wide scale, an estimated $3.9 million making it successful here and abroad by wide margins.

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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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