The Universal buddy cop comedy “Ride Along,” featuring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube debuted with $41.2 million at the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Ice Cube is a star of the movie, to be sure, but he’s the first to admit that the Ride Along films are comedies, and that the comedian in the film is his costar Kevin Hart.

In the crime comedy "Ride Along," Ice Cube plays a street-hardened cop who takes his soft soon-to-be brother-in-law -- played by comic Kevin Hart -- out on patrol in an effort to find out once and ...

Cube insists he, Hart and director Tim Story (Think Like a Man, First Sunday) took pains to avoid recycling the situational comedy that made Ride Along in an effort to create of what the rapper ...

Watch Ice Cube and Kevin Hart get down to business (and induce laughter) in the trailer for Ride Along 2, which opens in theaters Friday. See New Music Releases for January 2016 ...

It was Ice Cube who made the decision to cast superhot Kevin Hart for his buddy flick “Ride Along,” which was key in helping the film gross over $140 million since its mid-January release.

“Ride Along 2” hits theaters Jan. 15. (Pictured: Tika Sumpter, Benjamin Bratt, Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Ken Jeong, Olivia Munn, Tim Story and Will Packer at the Miami premiere of “Ride Along 2”) ...

Young Ice Cube. Forget going soft — Ride Along proves Ice Cube has bigger image problems than kiddie movies and Coors Light commercials. It's not his Hollywood career that makes him a sellout.

Anyway, the good news is that was such a surefire concept, a cop comedy with rising star Kevin Hart and old-school vet Ice Cube, that no one even pretended to be shocked when Ride Along nabbed a ...

"Ride Along 2" wants to be a dumb comedy, which is fine. The first "Ride Along" - which paired over-eager wannabe cop Kevin Hart with tough veteran Ice Cube -- was dumb, too.