BOX OFFICE REPORT (APRIL 12-14): Baseball Metaphor! '42' Wins the Weekend and Has the Best Opening Weekend for a Baseball Movie Ever

It's hard to believe, but before 42 opened to $27.49 million this weekend, the record for best opening weekend by a baseball movie was held by The Benchwarmers, that awful movie starring Napoleon Dynamite and Rob Schneider. Amazingly, no baseball movie had ever cracked the $20 million opening weekend mark. Looks like Jackie Robinson is still finding ways to make history.

Beyond the top five at the box office, the big news is Ryan Gosling and director Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines. The movie already cracked the top ten while playing in just 514 theaters. I'm looking forward to seeing this one, as some critics are already hailing it as one of 2013's best films.

1. 42 (N)
$27.49 million ($27.49 million)
While I wish the characters in 42 were a bit more fleshed out, this is still one of the year's top movies. If you love baseball, heck, if you love stories of people overcoming great odds to achieve something that changed society, you need to see 42. If you hate this stuff, I'm sure Evil Dead is still playing at your theater.

2. Scary Movie V (N)

$14.16 million ($14.16 million)

Scary Movie V had the worst opening weekend in Scary Movie franchise history. If you saw any of the trailers for this one, this isn't surprising. Sorry, Scary Movie V, but you missed the window to make jokes about Black Swan and Inception.

3. The Croods (3)

$13.12 million ($142.44 million)
Stop. Paying. To see. This movie.

4. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2)

$10.89 million ($102.52 million)
Through three weekends, G.I. Joe: Retaliation lags behind G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Don't worry, though, we'll still get G.I. Joe: Channing Tatum Lives! in a few years.

5. Evil Dead (1)

$9.49 million ($41.53 million)

Looks like everyone who gets off on movies like Evil Dead saw it during its opening weekend, as the movie tumbled roughly 63 percent from from first to fifth.

Next week's predictions:

1. Oblivion

2. 42

3. The Croods

4. Scary Movie V

5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation

SOURCE: Box Office Mojo