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AMERICAN SNIPER Hits $200 Million at Weekend’s Box Office; STRANGE MAGIC & MORTDECAI Flop – We Are Movie Geeks

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AMERICAN SNIPER Hits $200 Million at Weekend’s Box Office; STRANGE MAGIC & MORTDECAI Flop

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AMERICAN SNIPER

Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ Oscar-nominated mega hit AMERICAN SNIPER has surpassed $200 million worldwide at the domestic box office on only its tenth day in wide release.

Following its record-breaking first weekend in wide release, the Clint Eastwood-directed film has continued to fill conventional and IMAX theatres nationwide. AMERICAN SNIPER took in an estimated $64.4 million this past weekend, representing the smallest percentage drop ever for a film that opened at more than $85 million, including both three- and four-day weekends, and bringing the domestic gross to $200.1 million and climbing.

The R rated AMERICAN SNIPER is now, domestically, the highest-grossing film in Eastwood’s long career, and it is on track to become his top-grossing film worldwide. The film has earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cooper), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Jason Hall).

Boy Next Door, The

Universal Pictures THE BOY NEXT DOOR, starring Jennifer Lopez, fared well this weekend with an estimated $15 million, while Johnny Depp’s latest film MORTDECAI and the George Lucas produced/Disney animated movie STRANGE MAGIC essentially tanked at $4.1 million and $5.5 million respectively.

Producers Guild awards winner, BIRDMAN, has an estimated domestic total of $31 million now; worldwide $50 million.

The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates (Rentrak), listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, are below.

1. American Sniper – Warner Bros. – $64.4M
2. Boy Next Door, The – Universal – $15.0M
3. Paddington – The Weinstein Company – $12.4M
4. Wedding Ringer, The – Sony – $11.6M
5. Taken 3 – 20th Century Fox – $7.6M
6. Imitation Game, The – The Weinstein Company – $7.1M
7. Strange Magic – Disney – $5.5M
8. Selma – Paramount – $5.5M
9. Mortdecai – Lionsgate – $4.1M
10. Into The Woods – Disney – $3.9M
11. Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies – Warner Bros. – $2.8M
12. Unbroken – Universal – $2.1M

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