"American Sniper" spent its third week at No. 1 this Super Bowl weekend, taking in an estimated $31.8 million, making it the biggest Super Bowl weekend grosser ever.
The controversial military drama "American Sniper", starring Bradley Cooper, held on to the top spot at this weekend's box office with an estimated $64.4 million.
‘American Sniper’ had a record-shattering weekend at the box office, grossing an astounding $105 million from Friday to Monday. It’s already the second biggest earner of Clint Eastwood’s entire career after ‘Gran Torino,’ and with six Academy Award nominations (and great word-of-mouth) behind it, it’s posed to become his biggest hit ever.
Seth Rogen found himself in the middle of an online controversy last weekend when he took to Twitter to voice his opinion on the hit film "American Sniper", in which he compared it to "Nation's Pride", the faux Nazi propaganda film about a sniper that was shown in a portion of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds".
Hollywood seems to be split right down the middle after a huge, record-breaking weekend for 'American Sniper'.
The war drama directed by Clint Eastwood depicting the life of sniper Chris Kyle made over 90 million dollars in it's first weekend! Basically, a TON of people saw the movie, and even more people are talking about it.
"American Sniper", starring Bradley Cooper and directed by Clint Eastwood, shattered January box-office records with an estimated opening of $90.2 million.