Weekend Box Office Report: April 10-12 2015

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BOX OFFICE REPORT 

April 10-12, 2015(estimates from BoxOfficeMojo.com)

TOP 51. Furious 7 (60.5 million)2. Home ($19.0 million)3. The Longest Ride ($13.5 million)4. Get Hard ($8.6 million)5. Cinderella ($7.2 million)

The rodeo was no match for the car show. Furious 7 repeated at No. 1, taking in an estimated $60.5 million, the biggest second weekend since American Sniper pulled in $64.6 million back in January. Like that movie, Furious 7 shows no signs of slowing down. In just 10 days, it's already blown past Cinderella to become the No. 1 movie of 2015 thus far, with more than $250 million. It's also made more than $800 million worldwide. 

Home fell only 30 percent in week 3, becoming one of the sleeper success stories of this still-young year and a much-needed hit for DreamWorks Animation. Get Hard didn't drop much further either, though it's unlikely this one gets to the lofty heights of the $100 million comedy. Cinderella is also unlikely to cross the $200 million threshold.

The Longest Ride, the romantic comedy that announced Scott Eastwood as the next big drool-worthy hunk, came in third with $13.5 million. That's slightly better than last year's The Best of Me, but only a few bucks ahead of 2004's The Notebook. That's not a good sign for the seemingly indestructible Nicholas Sparks.  

Outside the top 5: - This Weekend's Indie Champ: Ex Machina, Alex Garland's sci-fi head trip. It averaged $62,500 on only four screens, marking the best average of the year. 

- Oliver Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria, also debuted well. It made $70,000 on only three screens. The film has received rave reviews for the performances from Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart (yes, really).

- It may have taken a few years to get U.S. distribution, but Asghar Farhadi's mysterious About Elly, made its mark. It earned $15,000 on a lone screen this weekend.

Next week: I still think Furious 7 has at least one more weekend at No. 1, despite three wide releases. Monkey Kingdom is a nature documentary so it's out. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is about five years too late. The biggest threat is the horror flick Unfriended, which exploits the cyber-bullying problem for its revenge tale, which takes place soley on computer and cell phone screens. I still think that's only good for $20 million, which won't be enough to unseat Furious 7.

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About Kip Mooney

Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.

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