With a domestic take of $44 million and an international take of $33 million, Noah took the box office this weekend in a big way, which was needed considering the controversy with its faithfulness to the source material in question the last few months. The film has a bit to go in order to be profitable, but it’s off to a decent start and will likely have some decent word of mouth since the CinemaScore numbers are very much very positive and very negative, leading to a C average, and that gets people to talk. The fil is the biggest opening for Russell Crowe and it’s the fourth biggest opening weekend of the week so far.
Divergent had a good hold overall since last weekend with another $26 million brought ine even as it’s barely started its international run which will be staggered over the coming months. Muppets Most Wanted held on fairly well too with an $11 million take, bringing it up to $33 million domestically.
This weekend also saw another threshold covered as Frozen made it up to $1.07 billion, surpassing Toy Story 3 to become the highest grossing animated movie ever, thanks to its continued performance in Japan where it added another $7.5 million and $50 million since its debut there.
The big but unsurprising news is that the roll out of Captain America: The Winter Soldier overseas with lots of very positive press has brought it $75 million in thirty two markets, which is about 57% of the international locales. The film is clearly set to outperform its predecessor which made $194 million internationally during its run while doing $176 million domestically for a total of $370 million back in 2011 in the pre-Avengers days.
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Noah | Paramount | $44,000,000 | 3,567 | 12,335 | $44,000,000 |
| 2 | Divergent | Lionsgate | $26,500,000 | 3,936 | 6,732 | $95,260,008 |
| 3 | Muppets Most Wanted | Disney | $11,373,000 | 3,194 | 3,560 | $33,210,000 |
| 4 | Mr. Peabody And Sherman | 20th Century Fox | $9,500,000 | 3,299 | 2,879 | $94,908,813 |
| 5 | God’s Not Dead | Freestyle Releasing | $9,075,421 | 1,178 | 7,704 | $22,028,439 |
| 6 | Grand Budapest Hotel, The | Fox Searchlight | $8,825,000 | 977 | 9,032 | $24,456,815 |
| 7 | Sabotage | Open Road | $5,330,000 | 2,486 | 2,144 | $5,330,000 |
| 8 | Need For Speed | Disney | $4,335,000 | 2,705 | 1,602 | $37,753,000 |
| 9 | 300: Rise Of An Empire | Warner Bros. | $4,300,000 | 2,601 | 1,653 | $101,145,414 |
| 10 | Non-Stop | Universal | $4,086,975 | 2,515 | 1,625 | $85,167,150 |
| 11 | Lego Movie, The | Warner Bros. | $3,105,000 | 2,001 | 1,551 | $248,303,720 |
| 12 | Cesar Chavez | Lionsgate | $3,000,000 | 664 | 4,518 | $3,000,000 |