Ice Cube Makes It Big at Box Office This Week

The hip hop legend might no longer be in the forefront of rap music, but he is still caking up in another industry. Since Ice Cube started making the Friday series and enjoying the success of the movies, he hasn't looked back. So far, the movies in his production credit include the Friday movies, Are We There Yet, Lottery Ticket...and the list goes on. His most recent movie, Ride Along made it big over the weekend.

Ice Cube’s Ride Along film earned $47.8 million during the four-day Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend, making it the biggest opening during the holiday weekend in film history, according to variety.com. 

Ride Along posted $41.2 million in box office receipts in its first three days and $14.4 million in its first day of release Friday (January 17), variety.com reports.

Ride Along, which also stars Kevin Hart, is the #1 movie at the box office this weekend. 

Ride Along surpassed the previous Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend record-holder, 2008’s Cloverfield, which opened with $46.1 million. (hiphopdx.com)

The movie holds the current number One spot on the box office chart. I think this is a great achievement for Cube. The movie budget was $25 million; it means he and his partners made their investment back in less than a week. Nice. This is definitely better than rap money.