The Kevin Hart-Ice Cube comedy "Ride Along" pulled off a box-office
three-peat this weekend, holding off Zac Efron's "That Awkward Moment" with an
estimated $12.3 million.
The R-rated "bro-mantic comedy" starring Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan took in $9 million
and was in a tight race for second with Disney's animated hit "Frozen," which
got $2.2 million from sing-along versions in more than 2,000 theaters nationwide
and skated to an estimated $9.3 million.
The weekend's other wide opener, director Jason Reitman's Kate Winslet-Josh
Brolin drama "Labor Day," finished seventh with a lackluster $5 million for the
three days.
Both Focus Features' "Awkward Moment" and Paramount's "Labor Day" targeted mainly female
audiences as counter-programming plays on a weekend when much of the nation's
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