News Entertainment Hollywood Ride Along box office collection: near $100 million, no.1 for the third week (see pics)

Ride Along box office collection: near $100 million, no.1 for the third week (see pics)

Los Angeles: With Super Bowl XLVII weekend in full swing, "Ride Along" remained strong, steering Universal Pictures into the No. 1 slot in a surprising three-week takeover at the box office.Topping multiplex sales since setting




Paramount's resurgence of the film adaptations of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series, "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit," this time starring Chris Pine as the resourceful CIA analyst, came in at No. 6 with $5.4 million in its third week. Overseas it made $9.1 million. The Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin-starring drama "Labor Day," also distributed by Paramount, opened in 7th place with $5.3 million. Riding the Oscar nominations wave were the No. 8 and 9 films: "American Hustle," leading the Oscar pack with 10 bids, and "The Wolf of Wall Street," which has five nods. David O. Russell's con-artist comedy earned $4.3 million, while Martin Scorsese's movie gained $3.6 million. Rounding out the top 10, and dropping from last week's position six, was Lionsgate's big-budget "I, Frankenstein," with $3.5 million in its second weekend. With an estimated $65 million cost, "I Frankenstein," in 3-D and starring Aaron Eckhart, has a $14.5 million domestic total. But the film could gain a spike in sales overseas over the coming weeks, as it earned $13 million internationally when it hit theaters. Overall, the estimated box office total for the weekend is $88.5 million, down slightly from this same Super Bowl weekend last year, which saw an $88.6 million total.