Weekend Box Office: April 26-28

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Pain and Gain - $20 million

2.  Oblivion - $17.4 million

3.  42 - $10.7 million

4.  The Big Wedding - $7.5 million

5.  The Croods - $6.6 million

6.  G.I. Joe: Retaliation - $3.6 million

7.  Scary Movie 5 - $3.4 million

8.  Olympus Has Fallen - $2.7 million

9.  The Place Beyond the Pines - $2.6 million

10.  Jurassic Park 3D - $2.3 million

It was a quiet weekend at the box office, as Michael Bay's Pain and Gain took the top spot with an estimated $20 million.  That's on the low end of openings for a Michael Bay film - which is likely to happen when the movie doesn't feature any transforming robots - but with a reported $26 million budget, it should have no problem making that investment back. 

The weekend's other new release, The Big Wedding, tanked with just $7.5 million.  Despite a big-name cast, the film received wretched reviews, and failed to attract the female audience it was hoping for.  Opening in limited release was Mud, which, despite some rather unfortunate press for star Reese Witherspoon earlier in the week, still managed to earn an impressive $2.1 million in just 363 theaters.

Oblivion, last week's first place winner, dropped by about 52%, earning $17.4 million.  The sci-fi action thriller has earned $64 million domestically, and an additional $134 million overseas. 

But the real action at the overseas box office this weekend was courtesy of Iron Man 3, which opened with a spectacular $195 million from 42 countries.  That tops last year's overseas-first release of The Avengers, which opened with $185 million.

So will Iron Man 3 be topping any Avengers records when it opens domestically next week?  Early reports indicate that it's going for a huge opening weekend, so we'll just have to wait and see.