Iron Man 3 has topped the US weekend box office charts once again.
Robert Downey Jr’s Marvel superhero movie holds off Baz Luhrmann’s take on The Great Gatsby, grossing an additional $72.47 million in the process.
Iron Man 3 debuted last week to the second-highest opening weekend takings in US history – bettered only by The Avengers in 2012.
The Great Gatsby opens in second place with first-weekend receipts of over $50 million, pushing Mark Wahlberg’s Pain & Gain down to third place.
Tyler Perry Presents Peeples is a new entry at four with takings of over $4.8 million, while 42, a biopic of baseball player Jackie Robinson, moves down to fifth in the standings.
The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Iron Man 3 – $72,472,000
2 (-) The Great Gatsby – $51,115,000
3. (2) Pain & Gain – $5,000,000
4. (-) Tyler Perry Presents Peeples – $4,850,000
5. (3) 42 – $4,650,000
6. (4) Oblivion – $3,864,000
7. (5) The Croods – $3,600,000
8. (6) The Big Wedding – $2,500,000
9. (7) Mud – $2,343,000
10. (8) Oz the Great and Powerful – $802,000