’American Sniper’ hit the mark with moviegoers again. The military drama starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle topped the box office for a second weekend in a row with $64.4 million in first place, according to studio estimates Sunday. ‘American Sniper’ is up for six Academy Awards, including best picture and best actor for Cooper. The total haul for the Warner Bros. film now stands at $200.1 million. ‘American Sniper’ also earned an additional $17.6 million in 16 international territories, including Australia, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. ‘We’ve never quite seen anything like this at this time of year,’ said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at box-office tracker Rentrak. ‘American Sniper’ is helping to propel the box office, which is already 9.3 percent ahead of the same time last year.’ In a distant second place, the saucy Universal thriller ‘The Boy Next Door’ featuring Jennifer Lopez as a teacher who engages in an affair with a younger man played by Ryan Guzman, debuted with $15 million. The weekend’s other major new releases weren’t even in the neighborhood of ‘The Boy Next Door.’
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