Sunday May 12, 2013
Marvel Team-Up: Iron Man and Great Gatsby Blast Box Office!
“The Great Gatsby” had the third-highest opening weekend for a non-#1 movie with a $51.5 million take*, while “Iron Man 3” had the fourth-highest second weekend of all time with a $72.4 million take** and won the weekend. Everything else was in single digits. “Pain and Gain” finished third with $5 million, followed by the opening of “Peeples,” at $4.8. In its fifth week, “42” nearly equalled that total with $4.6 mil. The Jackie Robinson biopic has now grossed $84 million, making it the second-highest-grossing baseball film of all time (unadjusted), after “A League of Their Own.” (Adjust and it drops to 9th in the batting order.)
The “Gatsby” numbers are impressive for a romance/drama with middling-to-bad reviews. It is director Baz Luhrmann's best opening by far (previous: $14.8m for “Australia”) and nearly equals, already, his highest-grossing film: “Moulin Rouge” at $58 million.
But the “Iron Man 3” numbers are superheroic. In only its second weekend in the U.S. and third weekend internationally, the film is at $949 million worldwide, which is 21st best ever, with only three superhero movies ahead of it: “The Dark Knight” at $1 billion, “The Dark Knight Rises” at $1.08 billion, and “The Avengers” at $1.5 billion. Ahead of that, it's Cameron country.
Here is the top 10 via Box Office Mojo:
Movie | Wknd | % Drop | Thtrs | Total Gross | Week # | |
1 | Iron Man 3 | $72,472,000 | -58.40% | 4,253 | $284,893,000 | 2 |
2 | The Great Gatsby (2013) | $51,115,000 | - | 3,535 | $51,115,000 | 1 |
3 | Pain and Gain | $5,000,000 | -33.40% | 3,303 | $41,608,000 | 3 |
4 | Tyler Perry Presents Peeples | $4,850,000 | - | 2,041 | $4,850,000 | 1 |
5 | 42 | $4,650,000 | -23.20% | 2,930 | $84,732,000 | 5 |
6 | Oblivion | $3,864,000 | -31.50% | 2,770 | $81,655,000 | 4 |
7 | The Croods | $3,600,000 | -14.30% | 2,650 | $173,215,000 | 8 |
8 | The Big Wedding | $2,500,000 | -35.60% | 2,298 | $18,288,000 | 3 |
9 | Mud | $2,343,000 | 8.40% | 854 | $8,363,000 | 3 |
10 | Oz The Great and Powerful | $802,000 | -62.00% | 774 | $229,985,000 | 10 |
* The films with higher second-place grosses are “The Day After Tomorrow,” $68.7 million in 2004 (“Shrek 2”), and “Sherlock Holmes,” $62.3 million in 2009 (“Avatar”).
** The highest-grossing second weekends: “The Avengers” ($103m), “Avatar” ($75.6 million), and “The Dark Knight” ($75.1 million).
“Nice weekend, old Shellhead, old sport.”
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