From his pineapple under the sea,
SpongeBob SquarePants is poised to knock
American Sniper out of the number one spot at the box office after a record-breaking run. Last weekend saw
American Sniper's gross drop approximately 52% to $30 million. It'll keep dropping (everyone's seen it already--not like there's a lot of January competition), leaving room for
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, which should easily open north of $30 million anyway.
The real question is whether
American Sniper will be able to grab the number two spot. Its only real competition is the Wachowski siblings'
Jupiter Ascending, which co-stars
The Theory of Everything's Eddie Redmayne in a scenery-chomping role he probably wishes people were seeing
after the Oscars. The Wachowskis' cachet and
Jupiter being an action-heavy sci-fi flick should help it, but the reviews (including
ours) have been overwhelmingly negative. If word of mouth sets moviegoers off,
Jupiter might be relegated to spot number three. It and
Sniper are both expected to earn somewhere in the $20 million neighborhood.
Interestingly, Redmayne's fellow Oscar frontrunner Julianne Moore also has a stinker of a movie coming out this weekend:
Seventh Son, which has been languishing on the shelf for years now and is finally being released by Universal Pictures, averting its gaze and whistling innocently like they don't know
what this generic-looking fantasy movie is, golly gee! The reviews have been even worse than
Jupiter Ascending's--an 8% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to
Jupiter's 24%. It probably won't crack $10 million. Moore and Redmayne should go to a bar together and get hammered.
Among the limited release movies hitting theatres this weekend in New York and/or LA are the documentaries
Ballet 422 and
1971,
Boy Meets Girl and "lost" indie melodrama
Losing Ground.
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