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« Review: Furious 7 | Main | Link-a-round »
Sunday
Apr052015

Furious #7, Cinderella #1

As expected the big loud noisy high speed franchise on wheels Furious 7 broke April box office records and earned the biggest opening weekend of 2015... until Age of Ultron arrives.

WIDE RELEASE
01 Furious 7 $143.6 new Review
02 Home $27.4 (cum. $95.6)
03 Get Hard $12.9 (cum. $57) 
04 Cinderella $10.2 (cum. $167.2) Review
05 Divergent: Insurgent $10 (cum. $103.3)
06 It Follows $2.4 (cum. $8.5) Review
07 Woman in Gold $2.1 new
08 Kingsman: Secret Service $1.7 (cum. $122.2) Review
09 Do You Believe $1.5 (cum. $9.8)
10 Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel $1 (cum. $30)

The other story is leggy Cinderella. The lux live action adaptation -- which has spurred on much future live-action remake planning from Disney animation (see that bizarre Winnie the Pooh news and next year's possibly even bigger Beauty & The Beast film) has just become the #1 biggest grosser of 2015. Not that the glass slippered princess will wear that particular tiara for more than a day or two at the rate the Fast & Furious company is collecting coin. 

What did you see this weekend?

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Reader Comments (19)

Starred Up, Dear White People, Song of the Sea

All three worth seeing.

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterArkaan

fun triple feature all so different, too

April 5, 2015 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

For me, the biggest story is It Follows earning big money.

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPedroPet

Watched "The Spy Who Loved Me", I think for the first time but can't be sure. Gets my vote for most hilarious Bond credits sequence - nude gymnastics, trampolines, etc. Richard Kiel biting a shark is a brilliant moment.

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterDave S.

It Follows on Friday, While We're Young on Saturday, and today whatever the fam wants to see after Easter brunch (perhaps "Home" :P)

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBVR

Re-watched Johnny Guitar, as one does...

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPaul Outlaw

MOMMY has finally made it to cinemas here. But I wish that someone had told me about the unusual aspect ratio. I spent 20 minutes wondering "is this how it's supposed to be, or have they stuffed up in the biobox?" before I left to ask that question, therefore abandoning any pretense of watching the rest of the movie that day. *sigh*

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterTravis C

WTF Travis?

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMicael

Barking Dogs Never Bite, Walt & El Grupo, Police Academy 7, and Working Girl.

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterSteven

What I saw this weekend... Furious 7, Johnny Guitar, and Tale of Princess Kaguya.

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRyan T.

Is Divergent underperforming?

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterHayden W.

Isnt 50 shades the biggest grosser of 2015 not Cinderella?

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterNBG

NBG -- it was, but Cinderella just beat it.

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterNathanielR

NBG: Internationally? Yes. About $170 million above Cinderella and about $180 million above Furious 7. Furious 7 will get well above that, probably looking at anywhere from $800 million-$1 billion. Domestically? Nope, Cinderella's got it currently topped by $2 million and Furious 7 will definitely have them licked domestically.

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterVolvagia

Hit Woman in Gold-better in some places than expected (flashbacks, Mirren), worse in others (Ryan Reynolds may be the worst actor currently headlining movies).

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJohn T

Oh I see, I always look at international grosses as opposed to domestic, either way good for Cate Blanchett, I adore her

April 5, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterNBG

I saw It Follows, Furious 7, Street Walker, and Insurgent.

At home I saw 4 Moons and Going Clear.

April 6, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRoark

Finally got around to St. Vincent. The movie was OK, but young Jaeden Lieberher was excellent as the co-lead.

April 6, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterSawyer

I finally saw Beyond the Lights. It was my first Gugu experience and she was great (she did her own singing! hello! if this was a major movie star singing like that in a movie she would've been a MUCH bigger Oscar threat) and Nate Parker was so great - simple, straightforward, unshowy yet very charismatic and sexy. Didn't love the ending, mainly because that final song wasn't as great as the movie wanted me to think it was, but overall it was very satisfying.

April 6, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterDJDeeJay
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