42, the inspirational baseball drama about Jackie Robinson, easily took the top spot over the weekend with $27.25 million. The movie has been getting great reviews and word of mouth recommendations should help the movie continue to perform well. Today is also is Jackie Robinson Day and all baseball players will be wearing his #42 jersey during their games, which should also help to promote the movie.
The weekend was far less kind to the latest Scary Movie instalment, Scary Movie 5, which tanked with only $15.1 million. The #3 and #4 spots on the list went to two Time To Play reviewed movies – The Croods and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Both movies continue to do well with The Croods now grossing $142.5 million and becoming the second highest grossing movie of 2013 behind Oz The Great and Powerful‘s $219.4 million. G.I. Joe: Retaliation crossed over the $100 million mark over the weekend and has now earned a total gross of $102.4 million. Paramount, the movie’s distributor, has already announced that a third movie would be made.
Check out Time To Play’s movie pages for full reviews of these movies plus the toys and games based on them. You can visit The Croods page here, the G.I. Joe: Retaliation page here and Oz The Great and Powerful here.
The Evil Dead remake rounded out the top 5 with a steep 63% drop from it’s opening weekend and just $9.5 million added to it’s total.
Here is The Top 10 for the weekend of April 12 – 14, 2013:
1. 42 ($27,250,000)
2. Scary Movie 5 ($15,153,000)
3. The Croods ($13,200,000)
4. G.I. Joe: Retaliation ($10,800,000)
5. Evil Dead ($9,500,000)
6. Jurassic Park 3D ($8,820,000)
7. Olympus Has Fallen ($7,283,000)
8. Oz The Great and Powerful ($4,923,000)
9. Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor ($4,500,000)
10. The Place Beyond the Pines ($4,080,000)
New Movies in bold.
Figures from Box Office Mojo
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