Dropping only 48.7% from its record-breaking January opening, Ride Along settled in with $21.9 million once weekend box office actuals rolled in, enough to take the #1 spot by $8.3 million over Lone Survivor and nearly $13 million over the weekend’s lone new wide release, I, Frankenstein, which finished its first three days with $8.6 million.
The two other films we were tracking with this weekend’s predictions were The Nut Job, which dropped only 37.7% in its sophomore frame for $12.1 million and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, which only dipped 41% in its second weekend to $9 million. However, the disappointing opening for Jack Ryan is really the only reason that drop wasn’t ay higher.
While it’s still early in the season, we actually have our first top ten that doesn’t extend beyond ten competitors, though this race is very, very far from over and pretty soon we’ll be opening the doors on the accuracy leaderboard, giving you two chances to take the box office crown.
For now I’ve listed the current top ten from the points leaderboards directly below and you can find the full leaderboard here. For the complete box office top ten and points awarded for this weekend specifically click here.
Points Leaderboard Top 10
- Arthur Carlson (13 points)
- Peete (10 points)
- ashdurdin (9 points)
- dam94 (9 points)
- MM (9 points)
- Peter Bandrowsky (9 points)
- austinjoel (8 points)
- GregDinskisk (8 points)
- Kessler (8 points)
- PJ Edwards (7 points)
