US Box Office Results: February 6 - 8, 2015
After three weeks of domination, AMERICAN SNIPER gives up the #1 spot to THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER. The Nickelodeon production grossed $56 million in its first weekend, averaging over $15,000 per screen. Although it has been ten years since the last Spongebob movie, SPNGE OUT OF WATER our grossed the first movie by $24 million. It is also the #5 all-time best opening by a February movie.AMERICAN SNIPER does fall to second place, grossing another $24 million, pushing up its grand total to $282 million. Expect the Oscar nominated movie to pass $300 million some time in the next couple of days.
Looking like a major box office bomb before it hit the first screen, the JUPITER ASCENDING only managed a third place showing, with $19 million. The movie will be lucky to reach $60 million, a third of the $176 million production budget. Not even international grosses will help offset the losses.
Also opening this weekend was Jeff Bridges movie, SEVENTH SON. Although the movie has already collected over $83 million in foreign markets, it could only muster $7 million in the states.
- $56.0 million - The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
- $24.2 million - American Sniper
- $19.0 million - Jupiter Ascending
- $7.1 million - Seventh Son
- $5.4 million - Paddington
- $5.3 million - Project Almanac
- $4.9 million - The Imitation Game
- $4.8 million - The Wedding Ringer
- $4.5 million - Black or White
- $4.1 million - The Boy Next Door
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