It’s lonely at the top, they say. So it’s sorta fitting that Lone Survivor, a bloody and harrowing depiction of the horrors and heroism of war, would stand atop the box office ratings.
Lone Survivor, technically in its third weekend of release, rolled from two theaters to nearly 3,000 and earned an estimated $38.5 million to lap the field. Its payday was one of the biggest in the history of Januarys (at least in the world of moviedom, according to boxofficemojo.com), trailing only 2008’s Cloverfield ($40.1 million) in first-month supremacy.
Survivor knocked Frozen off its frosty perch atop the box office, but Disney’s animated charmer still finished second with $15.1 million. It has iced a total of $317.7 million domestically, making it the fourth movie released in 2013 to go over the $300 million mark.
The f-bomb-riddled The Wolf of Wall Street finished third with $9 million.
The Legend of Hercules, the only movie to technically debut this week, had an (ahem) weak opening weekend, lifting just $8.6 million over its cinematic head in the not-so-clean-and-jerk competition. Not even 3-D screenings added much muscle to Hercules‘ flyweight debut, and estimates have it locked in a dead heat with American Hustle for fourth place. If the final receipts don’t break the deadlock, rumor has it that Hercules star Kellan Lutz will arm wrestle an out-of-shape Christian Bale for the honors.
Final figures update: 1. Lone Survivor, $37.9 million; 2. Frozen, $14.7 million; 3. The Legend of Hercules, $8.9 million; 4. The Wolf of Wall Street, $8.8 million; 5. American Hustle, $8.3 million.
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