Pamela McClintock of THR:
Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow's The Lego Movie is a champ for the third weekend.
The 3D animated film once again topped the North American box office, declining only 37 percent to $31.5 million, and pushing its domestic total to $183.2 million.
Lego had no trouble burying the weekend's two new entries, McG's Kevin Costner spy thriller 3 Days to Kill and Paul W.S. Anderson's big-budget spectacle Pompeii.
From Relativity and EuropaCorp, 3 Days to Kill came in No. 2 with a subdued $12.3 million opening.
Based on a story by EuropaCorp's Luc Besson, 3 Days to Kill stars Costner as an international spy looking to give up his dangerous lifestyle and repair his relationships with his daughter and his wife. But first, he must complete one last mission, even as he looks after his teenage daughter for the first time in a decade. Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld and Connie Nielsen also star in the movie, which marks Costner's second spy movie of the year after Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
3 Days to Kill, which Relativity says cost a responsible $28 million to produce, fared better than Pompeii (both films earned a lukewarm B CinemaScore).
Coming in No. 3, Pompeii opened to $10 million, a dismal start considering the movie's $100 million budget. Germany's Constantin Films fully financed Pompeii, resulting in limited financial exposure for Sony's TriStar, which is releasing the film domestically per its deal with FilmDistrict. FilmDistrict paid for marketing.
Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii recounts the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the Roman city. Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Jessica Lucas star alongside Jared Harris and Kiefer Sutherland.
Constantin -- which also financed the ill-fated The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones -- is hopeful that the historical epic will do strong business internationally, where it opens in 30 markets this weekend (Constantin sold off foreign rights to independent distributors).
Sony and MGM's holdover RoboCop placed No. 4 in its second weekend, falling 57 percent to $9.4 million. The sci-fi remake has earned $43.6 million domestically.
George Clooney's Monuments Men remained a crowd pleaser in its third weekend, rounding out the top five with $8.1 million and raising the movie's domestic total to $58 million.
Elsewhere, Disney's Frozen crossed the $980 million mark at the global box office to become the second-highest grossing animated film of all time after fellow Disney/Pixar title Toy Story 3 ($1.1 billion), not accounting for inflation.
Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire also claimed a milestone as its domestic total reached $423.6 million, making it the No. 10 title of all time at the North American box office
Here's my Pompeii Review--it ain't pretty kids...
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