Sorry, Jackie Robinson!
Tom Cruise just proved that he can still send a movie to the top of the box office!
In fact, with the actor’s latest sci-fi extravaganza, Oblivion, he secured himself one of his biggest opening weekend ever, as it pulled in a pretty impressive $38.1 million!
Excluding the Mission: Impossible flicks, this his is most lucrative since War of the Worlds!
And that was when Dakota Fanning was still a child!
Despite his throne’s usurpation, however, the aforementioned baseball legend’s new biopic, 42, held steady at the #2 spot with $18 million, while Ryan Gosling‘s new indie The Place Beyond the Pines expanded release by 1,500 theaters and made it to #6, with $4.7 million!
Ch-ch-check out the reason of this weekend’s box office top ten…AFTER THE JUMP!!!
1. Oblivion, $38.1 million
2. 42, $18 million
3. The Croods, $9.5 million
4. Scary Movie 5, $6.3 million
5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation, $5.8 million
6. The Place Beyond the Pines, $4.7 million
7. Olympus Has Fallen, $4.5 million
8. Evil Dead, $4.1 million
9. Jurassic Park 3D, $4 million
10. Oz the Great and Powerful, $3 million