NEW YORK – The Kevin Hart comedy Ride Along continued to speed through a typically quiet box-office frame, while the monster thriller I, Frankenstein couldn’t be roused from the dead.
Buddy cop comedy Ride Along, co-starring Ice Cube, cruised to the top of the box office again, taking in $21.2 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film set a January debut record, with $48.6 million over the three-day Martin Luther King. Jr. Day holiday weekend.
Lone Survivor earned $12.6 million in its fifth week for the No. 2 spot. With a cumulative total of $93.6 million, the relatively inexpensive Lone Survivor, starring Mark Wahlberg, will soon cross the $100 million mark.
But I, Frankenstein had a sizable budget estimated at $65 million, yet opened with just $8.3 million. Starring a beefed-up Aaron Eckhart as Mary Shelley’s famous monster in a modern-day setting, the 3-D film wasn’t screened for critics and came into the weekend with little buzz.
Two family films trailed Ride Along and Lone Survivor. The animated squirrel comedy The Nut Job made $12.3 million in its second week. Juggernaut Frozen added $9 million for a 10-week domestic total of $347.8 million.
Several Oscar candidates sought to capitalize on their recent best-picture nominations. Expanding by a few hundred theatres were Dallas Buyers Club ($2 million, $20.4 million total), 12 Years a Slave ($2 million, $45.5 million total) Gravity ($2 million, $261.2 million total), Philomena ($1 million, $25.8 million total) and Nebraska ($1.4 million, $11.6 million total). Also adding theatres was August: Osage County, which earned $5 million, bringing its cumulative haul to $26.5 million.
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