The only new film this past weekend worth mentioning was Pain and Gain and I was/am so not interested in that film. Ugh.

But, let’s see how things went down.

#1 - Pain and Gain

$20 Million

The budget for this bad boy from Michael Bay was $26 Million. So it’s very close to making it’s money back. BUT, Iron Man 3 opens this weekend. Will enough people opt to see Pain and Gain over Iron Man 3 that it will get up to its budget? Probably, but I’m guessing it won’t go a lot over. Time will tell the story.

#2 - Oblivion

$64.7 Million Domestic Total / $134.1 Million Foreign Total =…

Another weekend has passed, films have been watched, box office reports are in, totals have been tallied. Let’s see what story they tell.

#1 Oblivion

$38.1 Million Domestic / $112 Million Foreign = $150.1 Million Worldwide Total

Winning the top spot on it’s first weekend outing, Oblivion slides in to home plate with a weekend domestic gross of $38.1 Million. That may be decent, but it’s not knocking your socks off for a $120 Million budget, however foreign charts or through the roof pushing the worldwide total to $150.1 Million. That already pushes the film above it’s production…

So. how did things shake out this past week? Lets have a look.

#1: 42 - $27.2 Million

42 may be “the answer to life, the universe, and everything,” but it is also the answer to this week’s Box Office success and top spot. The film opened to the tune of $27.2 Million over the weekend, which isn’t exactly mind blowing but it’s not terrible. This is in contrast to another baseball film, Moneyball in 2011 staring Brad Pitt. That film opened to $19.5 Million on its opening 3 day weekend, and went on to earn $75.6 Million on a budget of $50 Million). 42 opening of $27 Million on a budget of…

The box office has thus far had a bit of a lack-luster run. I don’t think this weekend changes that for any individual film, but the overall total seems to be a bit more positive. Folks came out to the theaters this weekend.

#1 Evil Dead

Not a film I am in the least interested in, it did come in on top this weekend at $26 million in 3,025 theaters. With a foreign total of $4.5 million, the worldwide total is $30.5 million. And on a budget of $17 million I suppose the studios and producers will call it a win. l call it a massive loss for the human race that such a wretched looking film…

I promise you the following is no joke.

In honor of April Fool’s Day, Paramount released G.I. Joe: Retaliation. The flick easily earned $41,200,000, stealing the lead from The Host, the movie many Twi-Hards went to see out of loyalty to Stephenie Meyer.

In all likelihood, Host will gain on Retaliation in ticket sales over the course of its wide release. I think G.I. Joe will fizzle out in the box office when fewer and fewer fools are left to watch it. Stephenie’s followers are exceptionally loyal.

But this past weekend’s surprise was the blockbuster of The Croods coming in at first in…

The Croods may have taken home more money, but the ratio of gross to budget was much higher for Olympus has Fallen. Still, they are hard to compare since they are in such different categories.

The Croods

The Croods brought home $44.7 Million this past weekend. I don’t know if that’s really a surprise given what’s at the box office right now. I haven’t quite been captured by the marketing of this film but I must admit that it does look funny at least. I don’t know if I’ll have time to see it in theaters but I’m not completely opposed to the idea. However, at a budget of $135 Million, it…

Oz

Still in the lead at the box office, falling only 46.6% from it’s opening weekend is Oz the Great and Powerful. It’s a decent film, certainly one of the more decent films to come out this year, and so it seems deserved (even if I’m irritated that it’s doing so much better than Jack the Giant Slayer). Domestically it raked in $42 million. Not bad for it’s second weekend. Currently, the film has brought in a worldwide total of $281,826,000 so the return is officially over the production budget. [source: Box Office Mojo]

The Call

In second place was Halle Berry’s film, The Call doing…