Monday Morning Box Office Report: American Sniper Continues to Shock and Awe

Posted by on January 26th, 2015   Filed under: Box Office

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It was another amazing weekend for Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper as the Oscar-nominated film earned an additional $64 million. That is the eighth best second weekend on record and if this pace keeps up, it could actually become the highest-grossing movie of 2014. That is just insane. In second place, the Jennifer Lopez thriller The Boy Next Door earned $15 million followed by Paddington, which continues to bring in a steady stream of family audiences. The Wedding Ringer and Taken 3 rounded out the top 5. Meanwhile the George Lucas-produced animated film Strange Magic and Mortdecai starring Johnny Depp both had disastrous openings, the former being one of the worst debuts ever for a movie playing on over 3000 screens. For the most part, January is certainly living up to its reputation for lacklustre films.

1. American Sniper — $64.37M
2. The Boy Next Door — $15M
3. Paddington — $12.39M
4. The Wedding Ringer — $11.6M
5. Taken 3 — $7.6M
6. The Imitation Game — $7.14M
7. Strange Magic — $5.53M
8. Selma — $5.5M
9. Mortdecai — $4.13M
10. Into the Woods — $3.89M



  • Reed Farrington

    I hope the box-office results for American Sniper mean that more 80+ year old directors will get hired.

  • LordAwesome

    Too right Reed. Too right.

  • Deven Science

    Good! Strange Magic looks awful, and George Lucas needs to be sent the message that he’s no longer the story generating god he once was.