What an impressive week for Warner Bros. - The LEGO Movie has reached for three-peat in the box office for three consecutive weeks, beating action-packed films such as "3 Days To Kill" and "Pompeii" and earning a whopping $33 million. Not bad Village Roadshow!
The LEGO Movie has closed the weekend with a domestic cu of $185 million in just 17 days. On Wednesday, it crossed $200 million world-wide, meeting its mark.
Joining below The LEGO Movie is "3 Days to Kill" and "Pompeii."
Relativity's action/thriller "3 Days to Kill," which is co-produced and co-financed by EuropaCorp, won't make a killing despite landing in second. It took $4 million on Friday, and is on track to earn about $12 million this weekend. The films stars Kevin Costner, Haile Steinfeld, Amber Heard, and Connie Nielson.
Meanwhile, there's also heat on Sony's "Pompeii," which will be lucky to hit $10 million through Sunday after its $3.4 million Friday bow. Intuitively, these films are dividing the same audience, both being PG-13 action films, to their mutual detriment. Though full demo information won't be available until tomorrow, an early analysis of "Pompeii" skews only 52% male, interestingly indicating a rather balanced audience that is either significant or the mere result of the level of eye candy alluded to in Peter Debruge's review .As these low-landing openers lead the pack, a crowded slate of holdovers carrying over from Valentine's Day weekend doesn't stand a chance.
As for Sony's "Robocop," it leapt passed former leader "About Last Night" in fourth place with an anticipated $8.5 million or so. The raunchy romancer from Sony-Screen Gems is more likely to fall in sixth with about $7.5 million in earnings.
Squeezed between the two is "The Monuments Men" which earned about $8 million in its third weekend.
Looks like "everything is awesome" for Emmet and the rest of the Lego cast. Will they go for four-peat this week at the box office? Find out more once the results are in for this week's box office hits!
