Ride Along Destroys the Box Office

The buddy cop comedy Ride Along, easily nabbed the top spot at the box office this weekend ($41.2 million). While Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit played a little under expectations ($17.2 million), with even  the animated flick, The Nut Job ($20.6 million), beating it.  Jack Ryan is the series' lowest opening since The Hunt for Red October ($17.161 million)... but that's from back in 1990 and... Red October is awesome. It also went on to make $122 million.

As for that Devil Baby viral video, it probably helped Devil's Due attain a 7th place finish ($8.5 million).

If 2014 continues like this, we might see a huge year at the movies.

Weekend Estimates

Movie	Weekend Gross	Total Gross	Budget
1) Ride Along 2) Lone Survivor 3) The Nut Job 4) Shadow Recruit 5) Frozen  6) American Hustle 7) Devil's Due 8) August: Osage County  9) Wolf of Wall Street  10) Saving Mr. Banks	$41.2 million $23.2 million $20.6 million $17.2 million $12 million $10.6 million $8.5 million $7.6 million $7.5 million $4.1 million	$41.2 million $74 million $20.6 million $17.2 million $332.6 million $116.4 million $8.5 million $18.2 million $90.3 million $75.6 million	$25 million $40 million $42 million $60 million $150 million $40 million $7 million $20 million $100 million $35 million