A still from Avengers: Age of Ultron (left) and Furious 7.
Los Angeles:
Furious 7 showed no signs of running out of gas, notching a fourth straight weekend at the top of the North American box office, industry data showed April 27.
The movie, which last week surged past the US$1 billion mark in global sales, is the first since The Hunger Games in March 2012 to dominate the box office for four successive weeks, the Hollywood media reported.
Movie tracker Exhibitor Relations said Furious 7 took in US$17.8 million and has grossed US$320.1 million in the United States and Canada since its debut.
Slapstick comedy sequel Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, starring Kevin James as a hapless scooter-driving security guard, held on the second spot with US$14.8 million.
Third place went to fantasy drama The Age of Adaline starring Blake Lively as a woman in the 1920s who mysteriously stops aging after being involved in a car accident. It earned US$13.2 million in its debut weekend.
The animated children's film Home about an unpopular space alien forced to flee his own kind, was in fourth place, pocketing US$8 million.
In fifth was social media horror flick Unfriended, with US$6.2 million in receipts.
The artificial intelligence thriller Ex Machina, which sold US$5.3 million in tickets, was sixth.
The romance novel adaptation The Longest Ride starring Scott Eastwood, the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood, brought in US$4.3 million for the seventh spot.
The Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart buddy comedy Get Hard about a prison-bound investment banker and his car washer took in US$3.8 million for eighth place.
Nature documentary Monkey Kingdom, narrated by actress Tina Fey, earned just over US$3.4 million in its second week of release.
Rounding out the top 10 was Woman in Gold, the true story of a Holocaust survivor trying to get back her Nazi-looted artwork from Austria. It earned just under US$3.4 million.
The movie, which last week surged past the US$1 billion mark in global sales, is the first since The Hunger Games in March 2012 to dominate the box office for four successive weeks, the Hollywood media reported.
Movie tracker Exhibitor Relations said Furious 7 took in US$17.8 million and has grossed US$320.1 million in the United States and Canada since its debut.
Slapstick comedy sequel Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, starring Kevin James as a hapless scooter-driving security guard, held on the second spot with US$14.8 million.
Third place went to fantasy drama The Age of Adaline starring Blake Lively as a woman in the 1920s who mysteriously stops aging after being involved in a car accident. It earned US$13.2 million in its debut weekend.
The animated children's film Home about an unpopular space alien forced to flee his own kind, was in fourth place, pocketing US$8 million.
In fifth was social media horror flick Unfriended, with US$6.2 million in receipts.
The artificial intelligence thriller Ex Machina, which sold US$5.3 million in tickets, was sixth.
The romance novel adaptation The Longest Ride starring Scott Eastwood, the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood, brought in US$4.3 million for the seventh spot.
The Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart buddy comedy Get Hard about a prison-bound investment banker and his car washer took in US$3.8 million for eighth place.
Nature documentary Monkey Kingdom, narrated by actress Tina Fey, earned just over US$3.4 million in its second week of release.
Rounding out the top 10 was Woman in Gold, the true story of a Holocaust survivor trying to get back her Nazi-looted artwork from Austria. It earned just under US$3.4 million.
