Weekend Box Office: April 19-20

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Oblivion -  $38.1 million

2.  42 - $18.2 million

3.  The Croods - $9.5 million

4.  Scary Movie 5 - $6.2 million

5.  G.I. Joe: Retaliation - $5.7 million

6.  The Place Beyond the Pines - $4.7 million

7.  Olympus Has Falling - $4.5 million

8.  Evil Dead - $4.1 million

9.  Jurassic Park 3D - $4 million

10.  Oz The Great and Powerful - $3 million

Tom Cruise?  Yep, he's still got it.  Oblivion, which opened to big numbers overseas last weekend, had a very good start here, opening with an estimated $38.1 million.  That's the best opening for a Tom Cruise movie since 2005's War of the Worlds, and it's on par with the openings for the first three Mission Impossible films (the fourth opened in limited release).  It's not a blockbuster by any means, but a good warmup for the impending summer movie season.

Still doing terrific business is 42, which dropped a mere 34% since last weekend to earn $18.2 million.  The baseball film is likely to cross the $100 million mark by the end of its box office run. 

The rest of the box office was a relatively quiet.  The Croods is still going strong, earning another $9.5 million, and G.I. Joe: Retaliation is still hanging around with $5.7 million.  Scary Movie 5 dropped further into obscurity with just $6.2 million.  The Place Beyond the Pines, which expanded into 1028 more thaters this weekend, earned just $4.7 million.

Next week, the calm before the Iron Man 3 kickoff into summer movie season, will see the openings of Michael Bay's Pain and Gain, and the romantic comedy The Big Wedding.