The Clint Eastwood film surpassed The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 with $337.2 million, but less than 0.4% of that was made in 2014.
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Box office records can often seem fleeting and dubious, but this is an extreme example: American Sniper made an estimated $4.5 million this weekend, which was enough to surpass The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 as the top grossing 2014 film in the U.S., with an estimated $337.2 million total gross at the domestic box office.
Director Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning movie about real-life Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) can claim this title, however, because it played for seven days in four theaters in 2014 for an Academy Award-qualifying run, grossing $1.3 million in the process. It subsequently expanded to a wide release in 3,555 theaters on Jan. 16, 2015, to astronomic box office grosses.
To put that in perspective, as of Mar. 8, just 0.394% of American Sniper's U.S. grosses were made in the 2014 calendar year.
The rest, roughly $335.9 million, or 99.61%, was made in 2015.
That is still technically enough, however, for Sniper to leapfrog both Mockingjay – Part 1 and Guardians of the Galaxy to be counted as the movie from 2014 that made the most money in the U.S. (Internationally, American Sniper still lags significantly behind both films, with $140.3 million from 10 territories.)
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By comparison, Mockingjay – Part 1 made 93% of its $336.8 million domestic gross in 2014.
Total: $336,962,000
2014: $313,282,914 (93%)
2015: $23,679,086 (7%)
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