Super Bowl weekend is usually pretty soft by box office standards, and this one is no different. Ride Along held on to the top spot with only $12.3M, fending off the resurgent Frozen and beating back a pair of weak new releases.
2. Frozen- $9.3M/$360M
Disney's Frozen didn't just leap back up the charts in its 11th week of release, it actually gained audience as the Mouse House unveiled a new "Sing-A-Long" version of the film. With time running out before The Lego Movie asserts its family-friendly dominance it was a case of perfect timing.
3. That Awkward Moment- $9M
The names Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan, and Miles Teller hold a lot of weight with critics, but as a collective it wasn't enough to lift That Awkward Moment to a decent opening weekend. At a cost of only $8M, the poorly-received romantic comedy has already earned back its money and should scrounge up a little more before vanishing into the early-season scrap heap. Efron is entering into a weird transition area where most of his fans are still too young to check out his R-rated stuff like this, and it could be an issue in a few months when he teams with Seth Rogen for Neighbors.
4. The Nut Job- $7.6M/$50.2M
5. Lone Survivor- $7.1M/$104.8M
6. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit- $5.4M/$38.9M
7. Labor Day- $5.3M
And the continued marginalization of Jason Reitman films continues, but unlike 2011's Young Adult it's richly deserved in the case of Labor Day. Originally meant to be released over Christmas, with a lot of early Oscar buzz backing it, all of that disappeared once people actually starting watching it. And thus it was dumped on this weekend to die a quiet death, which is exactly what is happening. Not even Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin could power Labor Day to a decent debut, and with crushing reviews and no Oscar aspirations there's nowhere for it to go but down.
8. American Hustle- $4.3M/$132.1M
9. The Wolf of Wall Street- $3.5M/$104M
10. I, Frankenstein- $3.5M/$14.4M
