UK Box Office 5 - 7 April 2013

For the third weekend in succession, animated hit The Croods proved to be cinema’s biggest draw. A further £2.4m takes its cume to £17.7m and it now sits behind Les Misérables and Wreck-It Ralph 3D as the third highest grossing film released so far this year. With another week of the Easter holidays left, £20m-plus is a certainty.

GI Joe: Retaliation 3D held on to the second spot with £1.1m and has a cume of £5.6m. It’s now less than £1m behind the first G.I. Joe’s final total of £6.5m, which it should have overtaken by this time next week.

Dark Skies was this week’s highest new entry in third spot, taking £1m (including £323k from previews).

In fourth spot, Trance fell 38% (once previews are removed) to £722k and a cume of £3.3m and Jack The Giant Slayer rounded out the top five with £705k and a cume just shy of £6m.

There were two notable new entries at the lower end of the top ten, with Spring Breakers debuting at £345k (including £9k from previews) in ninth place and The Odd Life Of Timothy Green starting with £269k in tenth.

Overall, the box office was down 32% from last weekend and down 39% from the same weekend last year when both Titanic 3D and Mirror Mirror were released both titles had help from preview figures.

In the US, Evil Dead took first place with an estimated $26m, which is the 10th highest opening of all time for a horror remake. The audience was 56% male and 56% were 25 years of age and older. Estimates suggest that both The Croods and G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D grossed $21.1m this weekend. That gives G.I. Joe a cume of $86.7m and The Croods a cume of $125.8m.

In fourth place and bucking the recent trend of disappointing 3D re-releases, Jurassic Park 3D opened with $18.2m. Completing the top five was Olympus Has Fallen with $10m and the Gerard Butler thriller has now grossed $71.1m.