Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson’s Pain & Gain has topped this week’s US box office.
The Michael Bay-directed film opens with receipts of $20 million, which is one of the lowest opening weekend totals of Bay’s career to date. It knocks Tom Cruise’s science fiction blockbuster Oblivion from the top spot.
Last week, Oblivion gave Cruise his biggest opening weekend box office figures since 2006’s Mission Impossible III. Pain & Gain narrowly beats it this week despite takings of $17.4 million.
42 slips one place down to third in this week’s top ten, with The Big Wedding debuting at number four.
The star-studded romantic comedy – featuring Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl and Diane Keaton – opens with lower than expected numbers of $7.5 million.
Meanwhile, Dreamworks animation The Croods holds strong and keeps its place in the top five. Scary Movie 5 slips from four to seven in this week’s countdown.
Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper’s critically acclaimed The Place Beyond The Pines falls from six to nine, with Jurassic Park‘s 3D outing dropping to tenth place.
The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Pain & Gain – $20,000,000
2. (1) Oblivion – $17,400,000
3. (2) 42 – $10,700,000
4. (-) The Big Wedding – $7,500,000
5. (3) The Croods – $6,600,000
6. (5) G.I. Joe: Retaliation – $3,600,000
7. (4) Scary Movie 5 – $3,500,000
8. (7) Olympus Has Fallen – $2,800,000
9. (6) The Place Beyond the Pines – $2,700,000
10. (9) Jurassic Park 3D – $2,300,000