Pain & Gain Muscles Out Top Place
Paramount’s Pain & Gain opened in first place last weekend with $20.24 million. The Michael Bay film stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. It was a fairly close race for first place, with Pain & Gain topping the second weekend take of Universal’s Oblivion by $2.44 million.
While this weekend’s start was solid, Pain & Gain’s prospects aren’t good as Disney’s highly anticipated Iron Man 3 this Friday.
Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson in Pain & Gain. (Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures)
Oblivion took second place with $17.8 million. The Joseph Kosinski directed sci-fi starring Tom Cruise fell 52 percent from last weekend’s debut. Warner’s 42 placed third with $10.66 million. The Jackie Robinson biopic starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford fell 40 percent from last weekend.
Lionsgate’s The Big Wedding opened in fourth place with $7.59 million. The ensemble comedy featuring Robert De Niro and Katherine Heigl debuted below modest expectations.
| This Week | Last Week | Movie | Weekend Gross | Cumulative Gross | Weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N/A | Pain & Gain | $20.2M | $20.2M | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | Oblivian | $17.8M | $65.1M | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 42 | $10.7M | $69.0M | 3 |
| 4 | N/A | The Big Wedding | $7.6M | $7.6M | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | The Croods | $6.7M | $163.2M | 5 |
| 6 | 5 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | $3.7M | $116.5M | 5 |
| 7 | Scary Movie 5 | $3.4M | $27.5M | 3 | |
| 8 | 7 | Olympus Has Fallen | $2.9M | $97.2M | 6 |
| 9 | 6 | The Place Beyond the Pines | $2.7M | $16.2M | 5 |
| 10 | 9 | Jurassic Park 3D | $2.4M | $42.1M | 4 |
