"Furious 7" Continues Ruling at the Box Office

[JamesG]

Weekend Report: Furious 7 Repeats, Sets Opening Day Record in China
by Ray Subers
April 12, 2015


With an estimated $60.6 million, Furious 7 easily held on to first place at the domestic box office. It also got off to an incredible start in China, where it set the opening day record with $68.6 million.

At the domestic box office, Furious 7's 59 percent drop was a slight improvement over Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6, both of which fell over 62 percent in their second frames.



On Sunday, it passed Fast & Furious 6 to become the highest-grossing entry in the franchise with $252.5 million. Without any serious competition for the next two weeks, the movie is guaranteed to earn at least $350 million total.

Worldwide, Furious 7 is already the highest-grossing Fast movie with $800 million. It's now on track to become one of the biggest movies ever with at least $1.2 billion.







DreamWorks Animation's Home held on to the second spot with an estimated $19 million, which is down 30 percent from last weekend.

To date, its earned $129.6 million, which is ahead of The Croods and How to Train Your Dragon 2 through the same point.







Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Longest Ride opened to an estimated $13.5 million from 3,366 locations this weekend. That's above last Fall's The Best of Me ($10 million), and essentially on par with past Sparks movies The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe.

This isn't a particularly strong result, though it does feel like this is about as good as a Sparks movie is going to do without a major star or two in the leading roles.

Ultimately, The Longest Ride should wind up earning around $30 million.







Get Hard took fourth place with an estimated $8.64 million. That's off 34 percent from last weekend, which is a very solid hold considering how hard it fell in its second frame.

To date, the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy has earned $71.2 million, which puts it ahead of recent Hart movie The Wedding Ringer ($64.5 million).







In its fifth weekend, Cinderella eased 29 percent to an estimated $7.23 million.

It's now earned $180.8 million, and still has a slim chance of ultimately reaching $200 million.







The Divergent Series: Insurgent took sixth place this weekend with an estimated $6.85 million, which is down 32 percent from last weekend.

To date, its earned $114.8 million, which trails the original Divergent by $10 million.







After a week in moderate release, Woman in Gold expanded to 1,504 locations and earned an estimated $5.85 million.

Woman in Gold has already grossed $9.3 million, and is now poised to make a serious run at $20 million.







In its third weekend in wide release, indie horror flick It Follows fell 19 percent to $2.03 million.

The word-of-mouth hit has now earned $11.8 million.







After three weeks in limited release, Danny Collins expanded nationwide (739 locations) this weekend and grossed an estimated $1.6 million. That's a fine result for first-time distributor Bleecker Street.

The movie has so far earned $2.5 million, and will likely wrap up north of $6 million.







In its third weekend, While We're Young expanded to 246 locations and earned an estimated $1.38 million. That's the biggest weekend ever for writer/director Noah Baumbach.

Baumbach's highest-grossing movie ever is The Squid and the Whale with $7.37 million; with at least one more expansion on the way, it will be interesting to see how close While We're Young can get to that number.







Ex Machina opened to an estimated $250,000 from four locations, which translates to a strong $62,500 per-theater average. That's the biggest per-theater average so far this year, and second-biggest ever for distributor A24 (in both cases, ahead of While We're Young).

With strong reviews, look for this to expand nationwide over the next few weeks.

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April 10-12, 2015 Weekend Studio Estimates:


1. Furious 7 $60,591,000 / $252,522,000
2. Home $19,000,000 / $129,554,000
3. The Longest Ride $13,500,000
4. Get Hard $8,635,000 / $71,201,000
5. Cinderella $7,225,000 / $180,773,000
6. The Divergent Series: Insurgent $6,850,000 / $114,848,000
7. Woman in Gold $5,852,000 / $9,303,000
8. It Follows $2,027,000 / $11,798,000
9. Danny Collins $1,600,000 / $2,497,000
10. While We're Young $1,377,000 / $2,355,000

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[isiahthomas]

I saw Fast and the Furious 7 and it's good. I'm not surprised it made a lot of money. JamesG, is there gonna be 10 sequels of this like you said before? LOL. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. If they're gonna make some more, I wonder who would take Paul Walker's place. RIP Paul and I miss you.

[Tubehead]

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[isiahthomas]

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