( EW.com ) -- It 's good to be Kevin Hart and Ice Cube this weekend . The increasingly ubiquitous Hart , who recently told EW that Ride Along is `` my baby , '' scored big with a $ 41.2 million opening weekend for the buddy-cop comedy . That should jump to an estimated $ 47.8 million when one factors in the Monday MLK Jr. holiday . Not only does the impressive haul surpass expectations for Universal 's leanly budgeted $ 25 million comedy , but it also breaks the record for a January opening . ( If you 're still not sold on the Hart/Cube pairing , whose chemistry lifted the film to an `` A '' approval rating with CinemaScore audiences , let this stupendous spot on Conan give you a taste of their chemistry . ) Universal folks have further reason to thrust their chests out this weekend . Buoyed by rapturous word of mouth , the studio 's real-SEAL heart-thumper Lone Survivor dropped just 38 percent to deliver an impressive $ 23.2 million in its fourth weekend . Director Peter Berg , whose Battleship bombed so badly , made Lone Survivor for $ 40 million and now can boast about a $ 74 million domestic total . Sliding into the No . 3 spot is Open Road Films ' animated The Nut Job . With families looking for holiday entertainment , The Nut Job should swap places with Lone Survivor by the end of Monday . The squirrel comedy , which earned a solid `` B '' rating from CinemaScore audiences , managed to outperform its modest expectations . Alas , the same ca n't be said for Paramount 's stab at rebooting its Jack Ryan franchise , with Star Trek actor Chris Pine playing the action-hero CIA agent who 's previously been played by the likes of Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford . Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit , which the studio made for $ 60 million , debuts at a rather limp No . 4 with just $ 17.2 million . A `` B '' CinemaScore rating should n't do much to attract moviegoers distracted by all the Oscar-nominated films they want to see before the big show . That said , Shadow Recruit fared better overseas , with $ 22.2 million from only half of the international markets . Frozen hung on in the No . 5 spot , with Disney 's domestic kitty now totaling nearly $ 333 million . But hot on its heels was American Hustle , which earned 10 Oscar nominations and last night walked away with a SAG award for best ensemble cast . David O. Russell 's caper , starring Christian Bale , Amy Adams , Bradley Cooper , and Jennifer Lawrence , enjoyed a 28 percent jump with a $ 10.6 million haul in its sixth weekend ; its total gross rose to $ 116.4 million . The Meryl Streep/Julia Roberts family drama August : Osage County likewise enjoyed a jump in box office to $ 7.6 million as it more than doubled its theater count to 2,051 ; its cume stands at nearly $ 18.2 million . The only other other notable new release is Devil 's Due , Eli Roth 's found-footage horror movie that was hoping to benefit from its mega-viral `` Devil Baby '' campaign . The film failed to crack the top 5 and earned a dismal `` D+ '' CinemaScore rating . That 's a bleak showing , and yet the $ 7 million film already recouped its investment with an $ 8.5 million debut . The top five : . 1 . Ride Along — $ 41.2 million . 2 . Lone Survivor — $ 23.2 million . 3 . The Nut Job — $ 20.55 million . 4 . Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit — $ 17.2 million . 5 . Frozen— $ 12 million . See the original story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
` ` Get Along '' went big with opening weekend . ` ` ' Baby '' came in second . ` ` ' Baby '' got low rankings .