Iron Man 3 Flies to the Top of the Charts
Robert Downey Jr.’s billionaire playboy superhero propelled Disney’s Iron Man 3 to a near-record $175.3 million take in the May 3 weekend box office. It was the second highest domestic debut in Hollywood history, trailing the $207 million debut of The Avengers last year. But the future of Downey’s wise-cracking, atomic-powered Tony Stark is questionable: The movie hints he may hang up his sci-fi hardware and high-tech weaponry for a normal life.
The film so dominated weekend ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada that it made more than 23 times the second-place finisher, Pain & Gain, an action crime comedy about weightlifters who double as extortionists, which raked in $7.6 million and stars Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg.
Capturing third place was the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 about the Brooklyn Dodger legend who shattered baseball’s color line, which pulled in $6.2 million. Grabbing the fourth spot was the post-apocalyptic, sci-fi Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, which managed only $5.8 million.
This Week | Last Week | Movie | Weekend Gross | Cumulative Gross | Weeks |
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1 | N/A | Iron Man 3 | $174.1M | $174.1M | 1 |
2 | 1 | Pain & Gain | $7.5M | $33.8M | 2 |
3 | 3 | 42 | $6.1M | $78.2M | 4 |
4 | 2 | Oblivian | $5.6M | $75.8M | 3 |
5 | 5 | The Croods | $4.2M | $168.7M | 7 |
6 | 4 | The Big Wedding | $3.9M | $14.2M | 2 |
7 | 12 | Oz: The Great and Powerful | $2.1M | $228.9M | 9 |
8 | 7 | Scary Movie 5 | $1.4M | $29.6M | 4 |
9 | 6 | The Place Beyond the Pines | $1.3M | $18.7M | 6 |
10 | 6 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | $1.3M | $118.8M | 6 |