All right now, click your heels together and repeat after me: There’s no movie like Home. There’s no movie like Home. There’s no movie like …
Home, DreamWorks’ newest animated alien lark, parked its bubble-like spaceship right at the top of the box office. Sure, maybe the flick didn’t earn enough to buy a big chunk of Australia (yet), but it did collect an estimated $54 million, which is enough for a nice two bedroom condo in San Francisco. (As long as you’re not too picky about the neighborhood, of course.)
Home blunted the impact of Get Hard, an R-rated prison-predicated comedy starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. But while Get Hard didn’t get No. 1, it did collect $34.6 million in hard cash, which might be enough to get Will Ferrell sent to jail again.
Two former box office champs finished third and fourth this week. The Divergent Series: Insurgent, last week’s title holder, lost nearly 60% of its audience and tumbled to third with a $22.1 million take. And Cinderella, while still twirling away at the ball, is beginning to watch the clock. The Disney princess earned another $17.5 million for fourth. That brings its three-week total to a dreamy $150 million, just about $15 mil away from 2015’s earnings leader, Fifty Shades of Grey.
It Follows was as good as its name, following the big four with a $4 million weekend of its own and a fifth-place finish. Given its makers only spent $2 million to make the thing and spent maybe $4.99 on marketing, I suspect that a sequel or two might … follow.
Final figures update: 1. Home, $52.1 million; 2. Get Hard, $33.8 million; 3. The Divergent Series: Insurgent, $21.5 million; 4. Cinderella, $17 million; 5. It Follows, $3.8 million.
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