In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby says of his great love, Daisy, “Her voice is full of money.” Perhaps the same can now be said of Fat Amy.
In an appropriately pitched battle at the box office, Pitch Perfect 2 took on two lauded actioners and warbled past them both, trilling its way to an estimated $70.3 million. That’s singing for more than your supper, I’d say.
Mad Max: Fury Road towed its apocalyptic freak show into second place, banking $44.4 million for a solid silver-medal debut. Granted, all the millions in the world aren’t good for much in Max’s dystopian future. But for now, all that folding money’s still enough to buy a nice chunk of Australian real estate. Maybe a stone pillar with a Warner Brothers logo carved into the side or something.
Given the strong one-two punch of Pitch Perfect and Fury Road, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Avengers: Age of Ultron eased all the way back to third place. It lost about 50% of its weekend-over-weekend audience to collect a still tidy $38.8 million. And while it might not be number one at the box office this week, it is the top domestic movie of the year, its $372 million sprinting past Furious 7 ($343.8 million) for the honors. Toss in the $770.5 million Ultron has earned overseas, and it has already pocketed a cool $1.1 billion worldwide—and it still hasn’t opened in China or Japan yet.
If you weren’t one of the big three this weekend, you had to carry a badge to crack the Top Five. Hot Pursuit (wherein Reese Witherspoon plays a dainty police officer) finished fourth with $5.8 million. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and the deputized drivers of Furious 7 tied for fifth place with $3.6 million. Hey, star Kevin James’ voice might not be full of money, but is it full of fake buttered mall popcorn? Yeah, probably.
Final figures update: 1. Pitch Perfect 2, $69.2 million; 2. Mad Max: Fury Road, $45.4 million; 3. Avengers: Age of Ultron, $38.9 million; 4. Hot Pursuit, $5.7 million; 5. Furious 7, $3.6 million; 6. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, $3.5 million.
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