'American Sniper' Is Having One Of The Best Box-Office Runs In A Long Time
The Clint Eastwood film, starring Bradley Cooper, made another $64 million over the past three days, setting its worldwide box office total at over $247 million after being wide-released in theaters for two weeks.
Not only does that, once again, give the film one of the highest-earning weekends in January, but "American Sniper" just had one of the second-best weekends ever.
This is huge because the types of movies that usually only have second big weekends at the box office usually fall under one of two categories: They're either a comic book movie or sequel.
Only seven movies have had larger second weekends at the box office:
Movie | Second Weekend at Box Office | Opening Weekend |
American Sniper | $64.4 million | $89.2 million |
Spider-Man | $71.4 million | $114.8 million |
Shrek 2 | $72.2 million | $108 million |
Iron Man 3 | $72.5 million | $174.1 million |
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | $74.2 million | $158 million |
The Dark Knight | $75.2 million | $158.4 million |
Avatar | $75.6 million | $77 million |
The Avengers | $103.1 million | $207.4 million |
All of those movies have one thing in common, they all made over $800 million at the box office.