Cinderella Sprints Past Run All Night for Weekend Box Office

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Disney’s live action remake of animated classic Cinderella earned $70.1 million to grab the top spot at the weekend box office, handily beating Liam Neeson’s latest, Run All Night, which earned a disappointing $11 million.

Cinderella, which stars Cate Blanchett as the stepmother, is the latest in a string of Disney remakes to transform animation into live action with financial success, Variety reports. Both Maleficent and Alice in Wonderland performed well at the box office in recent years; the studio has similar plans for Beauty and the Beast and Dumbo.

Run All Night, which was largely panned by top critics, entered a box office that may have been over saturated with action films starring Neeson; he starred in Taken 3, which hit theaters in January, as well as last year’s Non-Stop.

Colin Firth’s Kingsman: The Secret Service finished third with $6.2 million, crossing the $100 million mark in total earnings, while Will Smith’s heist film Focus finished fourth with $5.8 million. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel rounded out the top 5 with $5.7 million.

[Variety]

See Cinderella Through the Years

Silent film star Mary Pickford in Cinderella, 1914Paramount
Ilene Woods as the voice of Disney's iconic Cinderella, 1950Disney
CINDERELLA, Julie Andrews, aired March 31, 1957
Julie Andrews in a TV special of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1957Everett
CINDERELLA, Lesley Ann Warren, 1965.
Lesley Ann Warren in another TV special of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1965Everett
Brandy Norwood in yet another TV version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1997ABC
Drew Barrymore in Ever After: A Cinderella Story, based loosely on the fairy tale, 199820th Century Fox
Anne Hathaway in Ella Enchanted, inspired by the fairy tale, 2004Buena Vista
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Amy Sedaris (second from left) as Cinderella in Shrek the Third, 2007DreamWorks
ABC's "Once Upon a Time" - Season One
Jessy Schram as Cinderella in ABC's Once Upon a Time, 2011Sergei Bachlakov—ABC/Getty Images
INTO THE WOODS
Anna Kendrick as Cinderella in Into the Woods, 2014Peter Mountain—Disney
CINDERELLA
Lily James as our modern Cinderella, 2015Jonathan Olley—Disney

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