Leonardo DiCaprio Seizes The Box Office Again Amidst Snowy Weather And Raunchy Robert DeNiro Antics

A big o'l snowstorm left much of the country in a winter wonderland (meanwhile, down here in Texas, we're getting a high of sixty degrees today), closing many businesses, including movie theaters. It's hard to say how much this impacted the box office, though many holdovers like Ride Along 2 and The Revenant had sharper than expected declines that could be attributed to the inclement weather.

Ride Along 2 Knocks Star Wars From The Top Of The Box Office, While 13 Hours Fizzles Out

And so, the box office reign of Star Wars: The Force Awakens comes to a close, after it was number one at the box office for four straight weeks, becoming the third film in the past nine months (after Furious Seven and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part One) to stay at the top for that exact length of time. What beat it out? The new Kevin Hart/Ice Cube comedy Ride Along 2, which debuted with a solid $35.3 million, about 15% below the opening of the original film. That's a bigger opening weekend than any comedy in 2015, sans the $38.7 million bow of Daddy's Home.

Ride Along 2 Review

When the first Ride Along came out, Kevin Hart had spent numerous years on the stand-up circuit, becoming a major enough presence there to warrant a leading role in a major American motion picture (he had previously had supporting roles in films like Think Like A Man, Death At A Funeral and a tiny cameo in This Is The End). The enormous box office of Ride Along ensured that this wouldn't be the last time he was the cinematic leading man, and numerous other projects like The Wedding Ringer and (ugh) Get Hard followed.