With it being Super Bowl Sunday, and news of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s passing, this box office report is going to remain brief. It’s no surprise that Super Bowl weekend means a decrease in audience attendance. I think the last time there were some major numbers for a weekend in which the Super Bowl occurred it was the year Taken was released.
Two new titles in major release thought they had what it took to knock Ride Along off its perch, but in the end it was the Kevin Hart/Ice Cube comedy that repeated for a third consecutive week. With a $12.3 million weekend $100 million overall (and then some) is all but assured. Two films finally made it past that $100 million hurdle, and they are the pro-military patriotic Lone Survivor ($104.8 million overall) and Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street ($104 million).
As for those two newcomers, the bro-mantic That Awkward Moment (read our review) placed third with $9 million (though its production cost approximately $8 million), while Jason Reitman’s Labor Day opened in a disappointing seventh place with $5.3 million.
Of the films currently in the top 10 all had a drop in attendance except for Disney’s Frozen. Dropping three screens yet a +2.1% increase, audiences had a variety of options when see the hit animated film. In addition to 2D and 3D presentations, Disney ushered a sing-a-long version into theaters this Super Bowl weekend. Since its release back on November 22nd, Frozen has grossed an impressive $360 million. If you factor in international totals, that figure jumps to a gargantuan $864 million. Wow.
This upcoming weekend sees George Clooney’s The Monuments Men and The Lego Movie vying for that number one spot. I’m placing my money on The Lego Movie to take the weekend. Full chart below.
1. Ride Along (Universal) – $12,314,000 ($92,977,000)
2. Frozen (Buena Vista) – $9,310,000 ($360,013,000)
3. That Awkward Moment (Focus Features) – $9,010,000
4. The Nut Job (Open Road Films) – $7,613,000 ($50,246,000)
5. Lone Survivor (Universal) – $7,161,000 ($104,855,000)
6. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Paramount) – $5,400,000 ($38,968,000)
7. Labor Day (Paramount) – $5,300,000
8. American Hustle (Sony Pictures) – $4,300,000 ($133,600,000)
9. The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount) – $3,550,000 ($104,077,000)
10. I, Frankenstein (Lionsgate) – $3,520,000 ($14,490,000)
