Last weekend’s Box Office fight was given between two newly released films: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and Chris Williams & Don Hall’s Big Hero 6. This week finale welcomed into its charts a 14 November released comedy: Dumb and Dumber To, which immediately gained public attention. Numbers are the ones to prove the victory: according to Pro.boxoffice.com, the comic sequel gained $38,050,000 throughout the weekend and was followed closely by the animation Big Hero 6 (champion of last weekend’s Box Office), which got a total of $36,010,000. The Adventure/ Sci-Fi movie Interstellar classified as third with a figure below 30 million dollars, the exact one being $29,190,000. The next positions were taken by the romantic drama Beyond the Lights – $6,500,000 and Gone Girl – $4,625,000.
Box Office Mojo shares ranks and figures per days, so we get a better look at the dynamic and percentages. Through the entire weekend, the battle for the leading position was given between Dumb and Dumber To and Big Hero 6. Friday, 14 November 2014, Dumb and Dumber To easily won first place, as the winning day welcomed the release of the movie. Figures state a visible difference between the two first positions: Dumb and Dumber To – $14,200,000, whereas Big Hero 6 – $8,011,000. Saturday met with the animation’s comeback as leading position, with an amount of $16,547,000 VS $13,900,000 for the Jim Carrey comedy. Sunday charts kept their Saturday ranking, and Big Hero 6 proved once more that animations are a ‘’must watch’’, with amounts reaching a total of $11,452,000, figure followed closely by the weekend’s big surprise comedy with $10,000,000.
Although Saturday and Sunday were both ruled by Big Hero 6, the huge figures for Dumb and Dumber in the day of its release kept the new-born in the first place with the above-mentioned figures.
Dumb and Dumber To is a sequel of 1994’s Dumb & Dumber, which followed ‘’the cross-country adventures of two good-hearted but incredibly stupid friends’’. The same characters return twenty years later in the wining sequel of the weekend. Main actors remain the same over the years, as well; we have the unmistakable Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas, accompanied by his fellow Harry Dunne, interpreted by Jeff Daniels. The movie is a 110 minutes laughing-out-loud comedy, which easily made its way to the top of Box Office.