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Box Office: ‘Star Wars’ Surrenders To Ride Along 2, Revenant After Oscar Snub


Star Wars Surrenders to Ride Along 2 in Weekly Box Office
Did Star Wars: The Force Awakens suffer at the box office this week with its lack of Oscar nomination nods?
For Best Picture, members of the Academy of Motion Pictures gave nominations to The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Room and Spotlight – not a light saber in sight. F
or Best Actor, the nominees are: Brycan Cranston in Trumbo, Matt Damon in The Martian, tar ship in sight, unless you count the rocket ships in the Ridley Scott epic, The Martian, Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs and Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl. Again, there isn’t a storm trooper or a rebel leader’s name on the list.
This goes down the line for the best of the best, which means any of the awards that makes for the blocked out headlines in U.S. papers the day after the gala awards show, which takes place February 28 this year. The J.J. Abrams blockbuster that is smashing box office receipt records, hasn’t any nominations for Best Director, Best Actress or any of the two supporting actor categories.

New ‘Force:’ Kevin Hart, Ice Cube ‘Ride Along 2’
It isn’t on the list of nominees until we get down to Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best Original Score.
The film, currently aiming for its second billion in box office receipts, doesn’t even get a nod for best Makeup and Hair Styling. The three nominees for that category are Mad Max: Fury Road, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared (that’s a real movie, folks) and The Revenant.
So, how did Star Wars: The Force Awakens fare at the box office this week. After four weeks atop the domestic charts, the blockbuster’s domestic sales slowed down to a take of $25 million – a slip down to third place behind the Kevin Hart – Ice Cube feature Ride Along 2, which took in $34 million, and The Revenant, which took in a respectable $29.5 million.
The rest of the top 10 for domestic box office receipts included 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi with $16 million, Daddy’s Home with a $9.3 million take, Norm of the North ($6.6 million), The Forest ($5.7 million), The Big Short ($5.2 million), Sisters ($4.4 million), and The Hateful Eight ($3.4 million).
Oscar nominations did give The Revenant and The Big Short a boost in sales this week.
The Big Short has garnered three high-profile award nominations with director Adam McKay and supporting actor Christian Bale up for awards, as well as the film, which is up for Best Picture of the year. The Revenant is up for Best Picture, Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Director, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Best Makeup and Hair Styling, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography.
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Movie Magic: The De-Aging Technique of The Irishman
Have you read Izzy yet? If so, you know that Izzy makes the apples that give the Gods their youth and immortality. It also seems Robert De Niro discovered one of Izzy’s apples too… In Martin Scorsese’s upcoming biographical film, he stars as Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a labor union leader and alleged hitman for the Bufalino crime family. The trailer for the movie, which will premieres NEXT WEEK (!), also features a “de-aged” De Niro. “We’re so used to watching them as the older faces,” Scorsese said in an interview on the A24 podcast. “Does it change the eyes at all? …If that’s the case, what was in the eyes that I liked? Was it intensity? Was it gravitas? Was it threat?…How do we get that? I don’t know.” Some might consider this magic and I for one can’t wait to see the impact of Izzy’s apples on screen for myself. ????
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“Captain Marvel” Retains Top Slot at the Box Office

It’s no surprise that in its second weekend, the first Marvel Cinematic Universe of 2019 is still riding high. Captain Marvel, the latest in the MCU with Brie Larson starring as the lead, generated another $69 million over the weekend, placing its domestic total at $266 million. Tallying up the international box office, the film’s global total to date is $760 million. Despite the online controversy, the film is looking to be another strong box office smash for Disney and Marvel.
As for the premieres for the weekend, and there were plenty, they were all over the map. Just below Captain Marvel was the animated adventure Wonder Park, bringing in $16 million, another film with controversy when the director’s name was removed from the picture after sexual harassment charges. Five Feet Apart, the dying teen drama about a romance amid cystic fibrosis, only came in at #3 with a weekend gross of $13 million. And debuting the lowest in the top 10 for debuts was Captive State, a sci-fi dystopian tale, only making $3 million. The film debuted so low the little film No Manches Frida 2 was able to sneak about it at #6 with a gross of $3.8 million.

Drops were fairly low all around for the returning films, mostly because Captain Marvel was dominating the previous weekend. The only milestone worth noting is that The LEGO Movie 2, after six weeks at the box office, finally cracked $100 million. And the sun is now setting on Green Book’s post-Oscar run by coming in at #10 for the final weekend of its top 10 run over the past few weeks.
View the full top ten weekend box office results below:
Captain Marvel ($69,318,000)
Wonder Park ($16,000,000)
Five Feet Apart ($13,150,000)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($9,345,000)
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral ($8,085,000)
No Manches Frida 2 ($3,894,000)
Captive State ($3,163,000)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ($2,135,000)
Alita: Battle Angel ($1,900,000)
Green Book ($1,277,000)
Next weekend, Captain Marvel may very well have some competition when Jordan Peele’s new horror film Us hits over 3,600 theaters.
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“Dragon” Continues To Soar, “Funeral” Close Behind, “Green Book” Back

With little competition for the weekend, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the third in the animated fantasy saga, was able to secure the box office once more. In its second weekend, the animated epic made $30 million to push its domestic total to $97 million. So far the film has done about the same as the previous film and is on track to stay in the top 10 for a few more weeks in March.
Debuts this weekend were small with one big exception. Tyler Perry’s latest Madea film, A Madea Family Funeral, naturally made a relatively big splash with its dedicated audience. Starting at #2, the film made $27 million for its first weekend. No word on the budget yet but it’s most likely on a budget as most Tyler Perry productions are, so it’s safe to call this a success, especially for debuting with a box office so close to Dragon.
The rest of the premieres were not as strong at all. Greta, the new thriller starring Chloe Moretz, debuted all the way down at #8 with $4.5 million box office. To be fair, however, the film was in a constant battle for its spot as three other films also reported earnings around $4 million for the weekend. Of note, Green Book, fresh off winning the Academy Award for Best Picture one weekend ago, splashed back into more theaters to arise even higher in the top 10 with its domestic total now sitting at $73 million. Don’t count on it remaining there long as bigger blockbusters will be swooping as we plow through the last remnants of winter movies.
Check out the full listing of the top 10 box office weekend results below:
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($30,046,000)
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral ($27,050,000)
Alita: Battle Angel ($7,000,000)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ($6,615,000)
Green Book ($4,711,000)
Fighting With My Family ($4,691,284)
Isn’t it Romantic ($4,645,000)
Greta ($4,585,000)
What Men Want ($2,700,000)
Happy Death Day 2U ($2,516,000)
Next weekend is once again all about Marvel as their latest superhero solo film, Captain Marvel, will be appearing in 4,100 theaters.
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