‘Lego Movie’ puts together a 3-week run at box office
Lego won’t leggo.
The Lego Movie claimed the top spot at theaters for the third consecutive weekend, killing 3
Days to Kill and sending Pompeii up in flames once again.
Lego snapped up $31.5 million, according to studio estimates from box-office tracker Rentrak.
The animated comedy claimed a rare box-office three-peat, though it’s the second movie of the year to do so after Ride Along. The toy adaptation has done $183.2 million in three weeks.
The haul was plenty enough to leave Kill in the dust. The Kevin Costner thriller took second with $12.3 million.
Ray Subers of Box Office Mojo says Kill aimed for fans of Taken but couldn’t differentiate enough from the Liam Neeson action franchise. “Instead of focusing on story, the marketing material has relied on generic action-movie tropes,” he says. Still, it was better than Pom
peii, the historical disaster film that went up in smoke. The special-effects spectacle took a distant third with $10 million. With a budget of $80 million,
Pompeii will be one of winter’s pronounced flops.
RoboCop took fourth place with $9.4 million, while The Mon
uments Men rounded out the top five with $8.1 million. Final figures are expected today.