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Enough for a mere ninth place finish at the overall box office, the $4.1 million was the weakest gross for a major newcomer.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow new release &#8220;The Boy Next Door&#8221; opened in second place with $15.0 million, while &#8220;Strange Magic&#8221; landed in seventh on the strength of $5.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Down only 28% from last weekend&#8217;s total, &#8220;American Sniper&#8221; led the weekend box office with a whopping $64.4 million.  The tally was enough to thrust the cumulative &#8220;American Sniper&#8221; gross past the $200 mark (to an approximate total of $200.1 million) in just its second week of wide release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paddington&#8221; (#3, $12.4 million), &#8220;The Wedding Ringer&#8221; (#4, $11.6 million) and &#8220;Taken 3&#8221; (#5, $7.6 million) landed in the weekend&#8217;s top five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[3489,3538,3490,3541,3432,3539,3491],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Mortdecai&quot; Flops at Box Office, &quot;American Sniper&quot; 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