Sure, it’s only been out for one weekend. But it’s still not too early to call The LEGO Movie a real blockbuster.
One hundred minutes of paradoxically anti-materialistic product placement—and a strangely delightful film in spite of it—pieced together a fantastic, $69.1 million opening weekend (estimated) to build a colorful brick tower atop the box office. It made more than three times its closest competitor and gave families something else to go see this weekend besides Frozen. It was the second-highest debut for a February movie in history, trailing only the $83.8 million The Passion of the Christ made a full decade earlier.
Another newcomer, George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, couldn’t come close to knocking down LEGO’s well-constructed creation. But it still did decently, rescuing $22.7 million. While that might be only enough to buy a single Van Gogh (if you found one on sale), but it was more than adequate to earn the No. 2 slot at the movies.
Ride Along, last week’s champ, slid to third with a $9.4 million payday. The Kevin Hart/Ice Cube buddy movie has now earned $105.2 million—the first flick released in 2014 to have crested the $100 million mark.
‘Course, Frozen—a 2013 holdover—has done much better than that. The Disney film added another $6.9 million to its cold coffers, giving it a total of $368.7 million and making it technically 2013’s third highest-grossing movie. It trails only The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($422.4 million) and Iron Man 3 ($409 million).
That Awkward Moment rounded out the Top Five with $5.5 million—helping to spoil the debut of the weekend’s third wide release, Vampire Academy. The bloodthirsty supernatural comedy drained a mere $4.1 million from moviegoers to finish seventh, more than $1 million behind Lone Survivor ($5.3 million).
Final figures update: 1. The LEGO Movie, $69.1 million; 2. The Monuments Men, $22 million; 3. Ride Along, $9.6 million; 4. Frozen, $6.9 million; 5. Lone Survivor, $5.6 million.
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