AMERICAN SNIPER Holds Number 1 Spot At Weekend Box Office With Estimated $31.9 Million

There’s no sign of Warner Bros. Pictures’ AMERICAN SNIPER slowing down at the box office.

Estimates have Clint Eastwood‘s drama taking in $31.9 million over this Super Bowl weekend. The Oscar-nominated film has an estimated domestic total of $248 million. The movie, which opened on December 25, 2014, has crossed the $300 million mark globally.

AMERICAN SNIPER is just one the films to be honored tomorrow, February 2, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Nominees Luncheon.

Among the Lead Actor and Actress nominees, Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper, Marion Cotillard, Felicity Jones, Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Redmayne and Reese Witherspoon are expected to attend the pre-Oscars event.

Other Best Picture hopefuls are still plugging along at local and international cinemas. THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING’s cumulative numbers stand at $29m domestic, $70.7m worldwide, THE IMITATION GAME’s estimated receipts are $60.6m U.S., internationally $117.6m and BIRDMAN numbers are at $30.9m domestic and $50m worldwide.

SELMA was #11 for the final weekend of January. With a $2.7m take at the U.S. box office (playing at 1,714 locations), director Ava DuVernay’s film has an estimated cumulative total of $43.6 million.

Opening February 1st are SEVENTH SON (Universal Pictures, JUPITER ASCENDING (Warner Bros. Pictures) and THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (Paramount Pictures).

The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015 by Rentrak, are below.

1. American Sniper – Warner Bros. – $31.9M
2. Paddington – The Weinstein Company – $8.5M
3. Project Almanac – Paramount – $8.5M
4. Black Or White – Relativity Media – $6.5M
5. Boy Next Door, The – Universal – $6.1M
6. Wedding Ringer, The – Sony – $5.7M
7. Imitation Game, The – The Weinstein Company – $5.2M
8. Taken 3 – 20th Century Fox – $3.6M
9. Strange Magic – Disney – $3.4M
10. Loft, The – Open Road – $2.9M
11. Selma – Paramount – $2.7M
12. Into The Woods – Disney – $1.9M