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The rousing baseball biopic 42, from Warners and Legendary, scored at the weekend box office, batting in an estimated $27.3 million at the North American box office. 42 recounts the career of Jackie Robinson. The film was written and directed byBrian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale), and stars Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as the Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey. With an excellent A-plus CinemaScore from all four quadrants of the audience, it was embraced by moviegoers as it outperformed expectations, which had the movie opening in the mid-to-high-teen millions.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, April 14, are as follows:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | 42 | Warner Bros. | $27,250,000 | 3,003 | 9,074 | $27,250,000 |
| 2 | Scary Movie 5 | The Weinstein Company | $15,153,000 | 3,402 | 4,454 | $15,153,000 |
| 3 | Croods, The | 20th Century Fox | $13,200,000 | 3,689 | 3,578 | $142,524,070 |
| 4 | GI Joe: Retaliation | Paramount | $10,800,000 | 3,535 | 3,055 | $102,425,698 |
| 5 | Evil Dead | Sony | $9,500,000 | 3,025 | 3,140 | $41,541,782 |
| 6 | Jurassic Park | Universal | $8,820,150 | 2,778 | 3,175 | $31,929,315 |
| 7 | Olympus Has Fallen | FilmDistrict | $7,283,000 | 2,935 | 2,481 | $81,889,814 |
| 8 | Oz The Great and Powerful | Disney | $4,923,000 | 2,504 | 1,966 | $219,444,000 |
| 9 | Tyler Perry’s Temptation | Lionsgate | $4,500,000 | 1,805 | 2,493 | $45,421,996 |
| 10 | Place Beyond the Pines, The | Focus Features | $4,079,576 | 514 | 7,936 | $5,454,861 |
| 11 | Host, The | Open Road | $2,394,000 | 2,172 | 1,102 | $23,439,460 |
| 12 | Call, The | Sony | $1,950,000 | 1,630 | 1,196 | $48,572,093 |
