2013 was starting to look like the year that the box office forgot. Weekend after weekend, films disapointed, under-performed, or did even worse — weak fare dumped by their studios that played exactly as badly as anticipated.
But this weekend, Hollywood finally scored a hit. Sam Rami’s Oz The Great and Powerful took in an impressive $80.3 million at U.S. box offices in its opening weekend, coming in on the high end of expectations for the mega-budget fantasy epic.
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It was 2013’s biggest opening weekend by a mile; the previous record holder,Identity Thief, grossed $42.7 million on the February 8th weekend. SOURCE
