Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Box: Beam Me Up! Beam Me Down!

1. Star Trek Into Darkness - $90m / $116m / $280m
2. Iron Man 3 - $29m / $332m / $420m
3. The Great Gatsby - $22m / $89m / $135m
4. 42 - $2.8m / $89m / $96m
5. Pain and Gain - $2.5m / $46m / $52m
6. The Croods - $2.5m / $176.5m / $183m
7. Peeples - $2.3m / $8m / $14m
8. Oblivion - $2.2m / $85.5m / $91m
9. Mud - $1.8m / $11m / $17m
10. The Big Wedding - $1.4m / $20.5m / $24m

I guess Tyler Perry can't slap his name on anything and expect it to sell, given Peeples dismal performance last weekend.  Gatsby, however, went over very well.  Even if it free-falls over the next several weekends, it'll still finish larger than most predicted.  It should do well worldwide, definitely not the bomb many thought it would be.  The power of Leo, people.  I find it strangely comforting when a movie star has a hit given the star system seems to be dying at the box office.  Star Trek is the only thing opening this weekend and was bumped up to a Thursday opening.  That killed its chances at a $100m 3-day, though it should outgross the $258m domestic gross of the 2009 installment.  This is a very strong month so far, despite the fact that the numbers of everything below the top 3 are a horror show.  That said, Mud will almost spend a month in the top 10.  So that's nice?

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