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AMERICAN SNIPER Breaks Box Office Records With Estimated $90M+ Opening
Clint Eastwood’s remarkable film about the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, AMERICAN SNIPER, broke all box office records this weekend with an estimated $90 million. Since it’s initial release on December 25, 2014, the R-rated drama’s total stands at $93.6 million domestically – $119 million globally to date. Made for $60 million, Bradley Cooper heads the cast, which also includes Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Cory Hardrict, Kevin Lacz, Navid Negahban and Keir O’Donnell.
The film is looking to add about $15 million Monday, raising its total since its limited Christmas Day release to $108.6 million in the U.S.
The screenplay, written by Jason Hall, is based on the book by Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. The autobiography was a runaway bestseller, spending 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, 13 of those at number one.
AMERICAN SNIPER received 6 Academy Award nominations last week for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Adapted Screenplay (Jason Hall), Best Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
Read Tom Stockman’s 5 star review HERE.
Sony Pictures’ R-rated comedy THE WEDDING RINGER, starring Kevin Hart, Josh Gad and Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, came in second place with an estimated $21 million from 3,003 theaters.
Claiming the third and fourth spots respectively were PADDINGTON ($19.3M) and TAKEN 3 ($14.1M). The third film in the TAKEN franchise has an impressive $161.8 million total thus far.
Meanwhile, Universal Pictures’ BLACHKAT, starring Chris Hemsworth, came in at a paltry $4 million.
Some of the films currently in cinemas received a bump in box office receipts from the Oscar nominations.
Over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, director Ava DuVernay’s SELMA came in at fifth place with an estimted $8.3 million. Playing in 2,235 theaters and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the Best Picture nominee’s total stands at $26 million.
Now playing at 1,611 locations, THE IMITATION GAME (The Weinstein Company) benefited from its multiple Oscar nods and brought in $7.2 million for cume total of $50.8 million.
Disney’s INTO THE WOODS, nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep), Production, & Costume Design, saw $6.5 million in ticket sales. From director Rob Marshall, the fantasy movie has a worldwide total of $140 million.
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES crossed the $800 million mark at the worldwide box office in its fifth week in global release, now standing at more than $803 million. The movie received a nomination in sound editing.
The conclusion to Peter Jackson’s acclaimed “The Hobbit” Trilogy, based on the timeless classic by J.R.R. Tolkien, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES has earned an estimated $244.5 million domestically to date and held the top spot at the box office for its first three weekends. Jackson now has the distinction of having all three films in both his “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy and “The Hobbit” Trilogy be number one at the box office for at least three consecutive weekends, which is a record for any film series.
The film dominated the international box office for its first four weekends in a row, and has grossed $558.6 million to date.
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The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, are below.
- American Sniper – Warner Bros. – $90.2M
- Wedding Ringer, The – Sony – $21.0M
- Paddington – The Weinstein Company – $19.3M
- Taken 3 – 20th Century Fox – $14.1M
- Selma – Paramount – $8.3M
- Imitation Game, The – The Weinstein Company – $7.2M
- Into The Woods – Disney – $6.5M
- Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies – Warner Bros. – $4.9M
- Unbroken – Universal – $4.3M
- Blackhat – Universal – $4.0M
- Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb – 20th Century Fox – $3.8M
- Annie – Sony – $1.9M
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