Sun Apr 13, 2014 6:38 pm
Captain America: The Winter Soldier has won the US box office for a second consecutive week.
The Marvel sequel faced competition from various new releases, but took an estimated $41 million to keep hold of the top spot.
Last weekend, the film broke April box office records by taking $96.2 million during its opening few days. The previous record was held by Fast Five, which collected $86.2 million in ticket sales in April 2011.
Rio 2 wasn't far behind the Chris Evans blockbuster, with $39m in second place. Karen Gillan's horror film Oculus took $12m and debuted at number three.
Draft Day - which stars Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner - took $9.75m to debut at number four.
Divergent dropped 42.2% and took $7.5m to complete this week's top five.
God's Not Dead dropped three places to seven, after taking $5.49m in its fourth weekend. The religious film - which was made on a budget of less than $3m - has now passed the $40 million mark at the domestic box office.
Noah, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Muppets Most Wanted and Mr Peabody and Sherman also featured in this week's top ten.
The US weekend box office top ten for April 13 is as follows:
1. (1) Captain America: The Winter Soldier - $41,398,000
2. (-) Rio 2 - $39,000,000
3. (-) Oculus - $12,000,000
4. (-) Draft Day - $9,750,000
5. (3) Divergent - $7,500,000
6. (2) Noah - $7,450,000
7. (4) God's Not Dead - $5,485,000
8. (6) The Grand Budapest Hotel - $4,050,000
9. (5) Muppets Most Wanted - $2,193,000
10. (7) Mr Peabody and Sherman - $1,825,000