{"id":3203,"date":"2015-01-19T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/entertainment\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2015-01-19T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:04:30","slug":"box-office-american-sniper-shatters-records-with-90-2-million-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=3203","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018American Sniper\u2019 Shatters Records With $90.2 Million Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/shows4.com\/blog_hollywood\/article616_thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/shows4.com\/blog_hollywood\/article616_slide.jpg\" \/>\u201cAmerican Sniper\u201d hit the bullseye, earning an astonishing $90.2 million in its debut weekend in wide release.<\/p>\n<p>It is now on pace to upend records for the Martin Luther King holiday and for the month of January, pulling in roughly $105 million over the four-day period. It\u2019s also a new high-water mark for director Clint Eastwood, whose previous weekend record was the $29.5 million wide release opening for 2008\u2019s \u201cGran Torino.\u201d At 84, he\u2019s still got it.<\/p>\n<p>For context\u2019s sake, the previous top-grossing Martin Luther King weekend release was last year\u2019s \u201cRide Along\u201d with $48.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe movie has become a cultural phenomenon,\u201d said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. head of domestic distribution. \u201cIt tore apart the record book and not by a little. By an enormous amount.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican Sniper\u201d recently picked up Oscar nods for best picture and best actor for star Bradley Cooper, and the awards buzz only intensified interest in the film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>[youtube_sc url=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3dd9DuvBnBc]<\/div>\n<div>[youtube_sc url=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=slwM0U8cVqA]<\/div>\n<div>[youtube_sc url=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5bP1f_1o-zo]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerican Sniper\u201d hit the bullseye, earning an astonishing $90.2 million in its debut weekend in wide release. It is now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36,55,114,350,374,421,461,474,558],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-hollywood","tag-36","tag-american","tag-box","tag-million","tag-office","tag-records","tag-shatters","tag-sniper","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}