'Furious 7' outruns box office rivals for 4th straight week

"Furious 7" showed no sign of running out of gas, notching a fourth straight week at the top of the US box office with $18.3 million in tickets sold, movie industry estimates showed on Sunday. PHOTO | COURTESY

What you need to know:

  • Slapstick comedy "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2," starring Kevin James as a hapless scooter-driving security guard, held on the the second spot.
  • Third place went to fantasy drama "The Age of Adaline" starring Blake Lively, about a woman in the 1920s who mysteriously stops aging after being involved in a car accident.
  • The animated children's film "Home" about an unpopular space alien forced to flee his own kind, was in fourth place. In fifth was social media horror flick "Unfriended," with $6.2 million in receipts.

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"Furious 7" showed no sign of running out of gas, notching a fourth straight week at the top of the US box office with $18.3 million in tickets sold, movie industry estimates showed on Sunday.

The movie, which last week surged past the $1 billion mark in global sales, is the first since "The Hunger Games" in March 2012 to dominate the box office for four successive weeks, the Hollywood media reported.

Movie tracker Exhibitor Relations said that "Furious" has grossed $320.5 million in the United States and Canada since its debut.

Slapstick comedy "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2," starring Kevin James as a hapless scooter-driving security guard, held on the the second spot with $15.5 million.

Third place went to fantasy drama "The Age of Adaline" starring Blake Lively, about a woman in the 1920s who mysteriously stops aging after being involved in a car accident. It earned $13.4 million in its debut weekend.

The animated children's film "Home" about an unpopular space alien forced to flee his own kind, was in fourth place, pocketing $8.3 million.

In fifth was social media horror flick "Unfriended," with $6.2 million in receipts.

The artificial intelligence thriller "Ex Machina," which sold an estimated $5.4 million in tickets, was sixth.

The romance novel adaptation "The Longest Ride" starring Scott Eastwood, the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood, brought in $4.4 million for the seventh spot.

The Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart buddy comedy "Get Hard" about a prison-bound investment banker and car washer took in $3.9 million for eighth place.

Nature documentary "Monkey Kingdom," narrated by actress Tina Fey, earned $3.6 million in its second week of release.

Rounding out the top 10 was "Woman in Gold," the true story of a Holocaust survivor trying to get back her Nazi-looted artwork from Austria. It earned $3.5 million.