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Pain & Gain Tops Oblivion and 42 in Weekend Box Office Early Estimates

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9:32 am, April 27th, 2013

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(Paramount)

Pain & Gain, the true life bodybuilder crime spree movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, is expected to win the weekend box office.

Directed by Michael Bay, the action-comedy is projected to earn $19 million, according to early estimates.

That would be enough to edge out the Tom Cruise sci-fi epic Oblivion, which is tracking toward $17 million.

The Jackie Robinson biopic 42 should finish in third place with about $10 million.

Meanwhile, ensemble romantic comedy The Big Wedding should open in the #4 spot with $8 million or so.

Animated family film The Croods is expected to earn $6 million, which would put it in fifth place.

Five holdovers — Scary Movie 5, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The Place Beyond the Pines, Jurassic Park 3D, and Olympus Has Fallen — are all clustered in the bottom half of the Top 10, in the $2.5-3.5 million range.

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Oblivion Easily Cruise Past 42 and The Croods To Win Weekend

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2:20 pm, April 20th, 2013

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(Universal)

The Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller Oblivion is expected to win the weekend box office.

Set in a mostly empty post-apocalyptic Earth, the movie is tracking toward $38 million and first place, if early estimates hold.

Jackie Robinson biopic 42 should finish in second place with $17.5 million or so, ahead of animated family film The Croods ($9.7 million).

The spoof Scary Movie 5 and action-adventure sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation are tangling for fourth place, with each release on pace for about $5.8 million.

The Place Beyond the Pines, starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, is on pace for $4.5 million and the #6 spot.

Meanwhile, four films — Olympus Has Fallen, Evil Dead, Jurassic Park 3D, and Oz the Great and Powerful — are each projected to earn between $3 and $4 million for the period.

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42 Hits Home Run at Box Office; Scary Movie 5 Takes Second, Croods in Third

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12:00 am, April 14th, 2013

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(Warner Bros.)

42, the biopic about Jackie Robinson, hit a home run at the box office, debuting in the top spot with $27 million in tickets sales.

Scary Movie 5, also in its first week out, came in a distant second place with $14.5 million.

Nabbing third was The Croods with $14.3 million.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Evil Dead took fourth and fifth places with $10.5 million and $9.2 million, respectively.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Jurassic Park 3D ($8.5 million), Olympus Has Fallen ($7.4 million), Oz the Great and Powerful ($4.9 million), the Tyler Perry film Temptation ($4.5 million), and Place Beyond the Pines ($3.7 million).

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