UK Box Office 12 - 14 April 2013

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Tom Cruise is back on top as Oblivion flew to an impressive £5m five day opening, with £1.6m coming from Wednesday and Thursday previews. This is further confirmation that audiences still love to see Tom Cruise headlining major films.

The Croods had yet another strong hold, falling just a measly 15% to £2m and a spectacular cume of £22.7m. By this time next week it should have overtaken Wreck-It Ralph to become the highest grossing animated film of the year so far. In third spot, is the fifth installment in the Scary Movie franchise. An opening of £1.1m is the lowest in the series and a long way off from Scary Movie 3’s series best £3.5m debut.

Fourth place was taken by hugely ambitious Ryan Gosling drama, The Place Beyond the Pines. Although £671k (with £11k from previews) may not seem that impressive, the crime thriller had the second highest location average in the Top 15 (£5.9k), beaten only by Oblivion (£9.5k). With more screens promised next weekend, this title should have legs.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D rounded out the Top 5 with another £525k taking its cume to £6.9m and surpassing the original G.I. Joe (£6.5m) in the process.

A couple of other notable performers were Danny Boyle’s brain-teaser Trance crossing the £4m mark and teen sci-fi The Host crossing the £3m mark. Overall the box office was up 34% from last weekend but down 11% from the same weekend last year when Battleship and The Cabin in the Woods opened. This week, both Evil Dead and Olympus Has Fallen will be hoping to replicate their US performance.

Across the Atlantic, Oblivion is not out until next Friday so it was left to baseball drama 42 to take the honours, with a strong $27.3m debut. That’s a good deal better than Moneyball’s $19.5m start in 2011. As in the UK, Scary Movie 5 could not repeat the performance of its predecessors, opening with $15.2m, which is miles away from Scary Movie 4’s $40.2m bow.

Another $13.2m for The Croods in third place took it to $142.5m and now making it the second biggest film of the year to date. G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D crossed the $100m mark with a further $10.8m and last week’s number one Evil Dead experienced a sharp drop off with $9.5m and a cume of $41.5m.