Posted by | Ray Cornelius
Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter
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.
Scary Movie 5, the weekend’s other new wide release, bowed in second place, but the horror movie parody from the Weinstein Co.’s Dimension label had to settle for $15.2 million.
Meanwhile, overseas the new Tom Cruise sci-fi film Oblivion opened in first place with an estimated $61.1 million from 7,444 dates in 52 territories. The Universal release will hit theaters in North America on Friday.
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