“Ride Along” Tops Last Week's U.S. Box Office

The buddy cop comedy,“ Ride Along” starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube collected $41.2 million, putting the newly releasedpolitical thriller “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” in the shade. Thefilm made January's biggest opening earnings. It cost about $25million.

The Afghanistan war tale " Lone Survivor," came second with ticket sales of $23.2 million, themovie stars Mark Wahlberg and directed by Peter Berg.

In a weekendcrowded with four new films, " The Nut Job," the firstanimated release from Open Road Films, collected $20.6 million inticket sales to claim third place.

The political thriller starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner, “ Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” came fourth with $15.4 million in its opening weekend.

With the four newly released titles,“ Frozen” dropped 3 slots, retreating to the fifth place. TheOscar nominee added $11.7 million to its gross pushing its revenuesto $332.4 million.

The starsstuffed, all Oscar nominees cast “ American Hustle” retreated asingle slot to the sixth position where it made $9.8 million. Thelow-budget horror film " Devil's Due" opened with $8.5million in sales for the seventh slot.

At the end of the list came the AcademyAwards nominated movies, “ August: Osage County” with $7.3 millionand Scorsese's “ The Wolf of Wall Street” with $7 million andSpike Jonze's “Her” with $4 million.