Weekend Box-Office Report (April 26-28, 2013)

Michael Bay's dark comedy "Pain & Gain" was this weekend's box-office king. The Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson starrer opened at #1 with $20M and almost made back its $26M budget in 3 days. While nowhere near the size of "Transformers", it's not bad for the director's first small budget outing. Meanwhile, another small budget R-rated comedy, "The Big Wedding", opened in a much worse 4th place with only $7.5M, despite boasting a high-caliber cast that included Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Seyfried and Katherine Heigl. Compare their weekend earnings with its $35M budget and it spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

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

New Wide Releases: "Pain & Gain", "The Big Wedding".

Biggest Drop : "Oblivion" (-52%)

Smallest Drop : "The Croods" (-28%)

Rank	Title	Weekend	Domestic	Foreign	Budget	Days
1	Pain and Gain	$20M	$20M	N/A	$26M	3
2	Oblivion	$17M	$64M	$134M	$120M	10
3	42	$10.7M	$69M	N/A	$40M	17
4	The Big Wedding	$7.5M	$7.5M	N/A	$35M	3
5	The Croods	$6.6M	$163M	$287M	$135M	38
6	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	$3.6M	$116M	$232M	$130M	32
7	Scary Movie 5	$3.4M	$27M	$10M	$20M	17
8	Olympus Has Fallen	$2.7M	$93M	$5M	$70M	38
9	The Place Beyond the Pines	$2.6M	$16M	N/A	$15M	31
10	Jurassic Park 3D	$2M	$42M	$6.6M	$10M	24

 

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