‘American Sniper’ Is Having One Of The Best Box-Office Runs In A Long Time

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Warner Bros. Bradley Cooper stars in "American Sniper."

"American Sniper" had another insanely huge weekend at the box office.

The Clint Eastwood film, starring Bradley Cooper, made another $64 million over the past three days, setting its worldwide box office total at over $247 million after being wide-released in theaters for two weeks.

Not only does that, once again, give the film one of the highest-earning weekends in January, but "American Sniper" just had one of the second-best weekends ever.

This is huge because the types of movies that usually only have second big weekends at the box office usually fall under one of two categories: They're either a comic book movie or sequel.

Only seven movies have had larger second weekends at the box office:

Movie	Second Weekend at Box Office	Opening Weekend
8. "American Sniper" (2015)	$64.4 million	$89.2 million
7. "Spider-Man" (2002)	$71.4 million	$114.8 million
6. "Shrek 2" (2004)	$72.2 million	$108 million
5. "Iron Man 3" (2013)	$72.5 million	$174.1 million
4. "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (2013)	$74.2 million	$158 million
3. "The Dark Knight" (2008)	$75.2 million	$158.4 million
2. "Avatar" (2009)	$75.6 million	$77 million
1. "The Avengers" (2012)	$103.1 million	$207.4 million

All of those movies have one thing in common, they all made over $800 million at the box office.

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