Lego Movie builds on already impressive box office earnings

The Lego Movie added another $31.5 million to its three-week domestic total.

The Lego Movie held on to the top spot at the US box office this week.

The animated adventure, featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Channing Tatum, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson and Jonah Hill, raked in close to $31.5 million, according to early estimates.

The film’s three-week total now comes to nearly $275.7 million.

Director McG’s crime drama 3 Days to Kill meanwhile debuted at number two with $12.3 million.

Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld, Amber Heard and Connie Nielsen star in the feature, about a dying Secret Service agent trying to patch up his relationship with his estranged daughter.

Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii debuted at three with just over $10 million.

The feature is set in the days before the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, when a village is enslaved by an evil Roman senator, depicted by star Kiefer Sutherland.

RoboCop (2014), starring Joel Kinnaman as the part-man, part-robot police officer, fell from three to four with $9.4 million.

George Clooney’s The Monuments Men also slipped from four to five with $8.1 million.

The actor directed and stars in the feature, about a team of people tasked with recovering artwork stolen by the Nazis. Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett and John Goodman also feature in the project.

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