Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Box: It's not quite a mop and it's not quite a puppet...but man...

1. Divergent - $64m / $64m / $160m
2. Muppets Most Wanted - $20m / $20m / $65m
3. Mr. Peabody and Sherman - $12m / $81.5m / $110m
4. 300: Rise of an Empire - $8m / $93.5m / $112m
5. Need For Speed - $7m / $30m / $45m
6. Non-Stop - $6m / $78.5m / $92m
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel - $4.5m / $10.5m / $45m
8. The Lego Movie - $4.5m / $243.5m / $260m
9. Single Moms Club - $3.5m / $13.5m / $20m
10. Son of God - $3m / $56m / $63m
**God's Not Dead - $2.5m / $2.5m / $7m

Another solid weekend ahead.  Divergent's reviews will keep it from breaking out big, but it'll still be enough to put a smile on the face of executives and produce a sequel.  Beyond that depends on worldwide grosses and holds.  After all, bad reviews never hurt any Twilight movie.  Muppets will perform lighter than the 2011 reboot but still better than most of the 90's franchise entries.  Grand Budapest expands to a couple hundred theaters and has been the most exciting box-office performer in awhile.  It's looking like it'll manage to equal the gross of Moonrise Kingdom.  I hope this is a lesson for studios to release better products in the spring where the market is over saturated with crap, allowing the cream to rise to the top.  God's Not Dead (if you don't know what it is, you're best staying that way) might be able to knock the similarly shitty Son of God out of the top 10.  Fittingly, next week we get a big budget biblical adventure and that'll probably under perform.  Worth noting, this will the best first time in four months that Frozen is not in the top 10.  What a run!

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