Evil Dead Opens at Number 1
Sony’s Evil Dead led the way at the box office for the weekend of April 5 with $25.78 million. The R-rated horror remake performed well with its reported production budget of $17 million. Horror remakes typically do better when they open, but then attendance drops.
The race for second place was close, with Paramount’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation just edging out Fox’s The Croods. G.I. Joe: Retaliation grossed $20.88 million and The Croods grossed $20.65 million.
Universal’s Jurassic Park 3D debuted in a not-so-distant fourth place with $18.62 million. The 3D reissue of the Steven Spielberg directed 1993 blockbuster debuted a tad higher than the $17.29 million opening weekend performance of last year’s Titanic 3D and 17 percent below the $22.47 million start of last year’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D.
| This Week | Last Week | Movie | Weekend Gross | Cumulative Gross | Weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N/A | Evil Dead | $25.8M | $25.8M | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | $20.9M | $86.4M | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | The Croods | $20.7M | $125.4M | 3 |
| 4 | N/A | Jurassic Park 3D | $18.6M | $18.6M | 1 |
| 5 | 4 | Olympus Has Fallen | $10.2M | $71.2M | 3 |
| 6 | 3 | Tyler Perry’s Temptation | $10.1M | $38.5M | 2 |
| 7 | 5 | Oz: The Great and Wonderful | $8.0M | $212.6M | 5 |
| 8 | 6 | The Host | $5.2M | $19.6M | 2 |
| 9 | 7 | The Call | $3.5M | $45.5M | 3 |
| 10 | 8 | Admission | $2.0M | $15.3M | 3 |
Article by: Executive Editor Mark Heckathorn
