Criticisms that Get Hard is racist, homophobic and poorly written aside, the movie made bank at the box office this weekend.
The R-rated Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart comedy debuted to a second-place $34.6 million over the weekend, according to the studios' Sunday estimates. The movie only cost a reported $40 million to make, so it's already on track to be very profitable (in other words, get ready to see Ferrell and Hart teaming up again).
Even with a very solid opening for an R-rated movie, the film couldn't come close to the weekend's surprise smash, the animated family movie Home, which nearly doubled what the studio was expecting by bringing in $54 million to take the top spot.
After that it was Insurgent at No. 3 ($22 million), Cinderella at No. 4 ($17.5 million) and the low-budget horror film It Follows in its first week of wide release with $4 million rounding out the top 5.
It Follows is the latest low-budget horror success story. The film was supposed to get a limited release in L.A. and NYC before it went to On Demand, but it was making so much money it opened on 1,200 screens this weekend.
