Weekend Box Office Report: ’42’ Is Number 1

Logan Falk, Movies With Butter
Sun, 04/14/2013 - 2:25pm

Both of last week’s new releases did very well in the box office this weekend—even despite the arguably vast disparity in quality between the two releases. Making the top of the charts is 42, which outdid its modest expectations (even for a heartwarming based-on-a-true-story yarn), earning revenues in the ballpark (ha) of $27.2 million on its opening weekend. read more

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