"American Sniper" had another insanely huge weekend at the box office.
The Clint Eastwood film, starring Bradley Cooper, made another $64 million over the past three days, setting its worldwide box office total at over $247 million after being wide-released in theaters for two weeks.
Not only does that, once again, give the film one of the highest-earning weekends in January, but "American Sniper" just had one of the second-best weekends ever.
This is huge because the types of movies that usually only have second big weekends at the box office usually fall under one of two categories: They're either a comic book movie or sequel.
Only seven movies have had larger second weekends at the box office:
| Movie | Second Weekend at Box Office | Opening Weekend |
| 8. "American Sniper" (2015) | $64.4 million | $89.2 million |
| 7. "Spider-Man" (2002) | $71.4 million | $114.8 million |
| 6. "Shrek 2" (2004) | $72.2 million | $108 million |
| 5. "Iron Man 3" (2013) | $72.5 million | $174.1 million |
| 4. "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (2013) | $74.2 million | $158 million |
| 3. "The Dark Knight" (2008) | $75.2 million | $158.4 million |
| 2. "Avatar" (2009) | $75.6 million | $77 million |
| 1. "The Avengers" (2012) | $103.1 million | $207.4 million |
All of those movies have one thing in common, they all made over $800 million at the box office.
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