Weekend Box-Office Report (March 22-24, 2013)

With four new wide releases, competition was high this weekend at the box-office. First prize goes to "The Croods", the prehistoric animated adventure, which opened with a solid $44 million and gathered an additional $62 million overseas, which is not bad at all for its first 3 days. The White-House-under-siege action thriller "Olympus Has Fallen" starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman opened at #2 with $30M, which is decent enough. The highly-buzzed dark comedy "Spring Breakers" opened wide this week after a promising first week in limited release, and managed to rake in $5 million, which is also good, considering it was made on a budget of $2 million. Not so good was the opening weekend performance of Paul Weitz's comedy "Admission", starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, which only earned $6 million.

More box-office details and the complete top 10, after the jump.

New Wide Releases: "The Croods", "Olympus has Fallen", "Spring Breakers", "Admission".

Biggest Drop : "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" (-58%)

Smallest Drop : "Identity Thief" (-42%)

Rank	Title	Weekend	Domestic	Foreign	Budget	Days
1	The Croods	$44.7M	$44.7M	$62.6M	$135M	3
2	Olympus Has Fallen	$30.5M	$30.5M	N/A	$70M	3
3	Oz the Great and Powerful	$22M	$177M	$136M	$215M	17
4	The Call	$8.7M	$30.9M	N/A	$13M	10
5	Admission	$6.4M	$6.4M	N/A	$13M	3
6	Spring Breakers	$5M	$5M	$2.7M	$2M	10
7	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone	$4.2M	$17M	N/A	$30M	10
8	Jack the Giant Slayer	$2.9M	$59M	$36M	$195M	24
9	Identity Thief	$2.5M	$127M	$3M	$35M	45
10	Snitch	$1.9M	$40M	N/A	N/A	31

 

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