Weekend Box Office: March 8-10

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Oz The Great and Powerful - $80.2 million

2.  Jack the Giant Slayer - $10 million

3.  Identity Thief - $6.3 million

4.  Dead Man Down - $5.3 milion

5.  Snitch - $5.1 million

6.  21 and Over - $5 million

7.  Safe Haven - $3.8 million

8.  Silver Linings Playbook - $3.7 million

9.  Escape From Planet Earth - $3.2 million

10.  The Last Exorcism Part II - $3.1 million

The first blockbuster of 2013 was welcomed in theaters this weekend, as Oz The Great and Powerful opened with a stellar $80.2 million.  That the highest weekend debut since The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opened with $84 million back in December.  Internationally, Oz is also as great and powerful as the title suggests, earning nearly $70 million in oversears markets just this weekend. 

That's not such great news for Jack the Giant Slayer, which tumbled 63% in its second weekend to earn an estimated $10 million.  In less than ten days, the film has earned just $43 million domestically.

Identity Thief is still performing very well with $6.3 million, actually beating out this weekend's other new release, Dead Man Down, which went barely noticed with only $5.3 million.  Snitch hasn't been exactly lighting the box office on fire either, but its $31 million over three weeks is a bit more respectable than some of the more recent R-rated action bombs of the year so far. 

But it was good to be the Wizard this weekend.  And it's likely to be that way next weekend too, when it competes with new releases The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The Call, and Spring Breakers.