Sunday, January 25, 2015

Box Office: 'American Sniper' Adds $18.3 Million, Depp's 'Mortdecai' Flops


American Sniper added $18.3 million on Friday, which puts it on pace for one of the best second weekends ever.

Among the newcomers, The Boy Next Door got off to a fine start, while Mortdecai and Strange Magic bombed.American Sniper's $18.3 million haul is, by a large margin, the biggest second Friday ever for an R-rated movie.

In comparison, The Passion of the Christ added $13.7 million, while The Matrix Reloaded and The Hangover Part II earned $10.3 million and $10.6 million, respectively. Sniper's second Friday was also significantly higher than all of 2014's superhero movies, which were in the $9 to $12 million range.After eight days in nationwide release, American Sniper has already earned $154.1 million.

On Friday, it passed Gran Torino to become director Clint Eastwood's highest-grossing movie ever.

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