Top Box Office: April 26-28, 2013 Studio Estimates

Unsurprisingly the new Michael Bay movie, Pain and Gain, starring The Rock and Marky Mark went on to lead the Box Office this weekend.  The surprising part may be that it only made $20 million this weekend, as this is Bay's lowest opening weekend since The Island in 2005.  The only new release, the romantic comedy, The Big Wedding ended up getting fourth place and opening up very soft considering the cast involved with the movie.

Going out on a limb and going to predict that next weekend that Iron Man 3 movie is going to top the charts, if the buzz is any indication that movie is going to make some huge bank.  (*)

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Pain and Gain	Par.	$20,000,000	-	3,277	-	$6,103	$20,000,000	$26	1
2	1	Oblivion	Uni.	$17,443,000	-52.9%	3,792	+9	$4,600	$64,731,000	$120	2
3	2	42	WB	$10,725,000	-39.5%	3,405	+155	$3,150	$69,079,000	$40	3
4	N	The Big Wedding	LGF	$7,500,000	-	2,633	-	$2,848	$7,500,000	$35	1
5	3	The Croods	Fox	$6,600,000	-28.5%	3,283	-152	$2,010	$163,025,000	$135	6
6	5	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Par.	$3,620,000	-37.2%	2,707	-468	$1,337	$116,396,000	$130	5
7	4	Scary Movie 5	W/Dim.	$3,457,000	-43.8%	2,733	-669	$1,265	$27,494,000	$20	3
8	7	Olympus Has Fallen	FD	$2,768,000	-38.2%	2,334	-304	$1,186	$93,076,000	$70	6
9	6	The Place Beyond the Pines	Focus	$2,699,000	-45.1%	1,584	+42	$1,704	$16,205,000	$15	5
10	9	Jurassic Park 3D	Uni.	$2,310,000	-43.0%	1,848	-482	$1,250	$42,000,000	$10	4

Credit goes to BoxOfficeMojo.com for the table and numbers.