“Oz the Great and Powerful” is the odds-on favorite to keep its box office title this weekend, but there are some magic and thrills on tap, too.
Warner Bros. Is rolling out the Steve Carell-Jim Carrey comedy “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” and Sony TriStar is debuting the Halle Berry thriller “The Call.” Those two will wind up with about $15 million and $11 million respectively, analysts say, as Disney hopes “Oz” can pull in half of its $80 million debut in its second week.
“Oz” looks like a good bet to do that, after strong midweek showings -- it did $7.1 million on Tuesday -- had it on the verge of cracking the $100 million mark at the domestic box office on Thursday.
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It will remain in a market-high 3,912 theaters; about 3,055 of those will be 3D, and 307 will be Imax theaters.
In New Line's PG-rated “Burt Wonderstone,” two Las Vegas magicians (Carell and Steve Buscemi) find themselves upstaged by the stunts of a street magician (Carrey) and look to salvage their act -- and their friendship -- by staging their own daring stunt.
It's directed by Don Scardino (“30 Rock” and “The Mindy Project"), from a script by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (“Horrible Bosses”). James Gandolfini, Olivia Wilde and Alan Arkin co-star.
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The best thing “Wonderstone” has going for it may be lack of competition. It will be the only comedy, other than the six-week-old “Identity Thief,” in the market. The critics sort of chortled: “Wonderstone” has a 52 percent positive rating on Movie Review Intelligence, 48 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Warner Bros.'s New Line produced “Wonderstone,” which has a production budget estimated at $30 million. It will be in more than 3,100 theaters.
In “The Call,” Berry stars as veteran 911 operator who receives a call from a girl (Abigail Breslin) who has just been abducted and soon realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
Michael Imperioli (“The Sopranos”), Morris Chestnut and Michael Eklund co-star in the R-rated thriller, written by Richard D'Ovidio (“Thirteen Ghosts”) and directed by Brad Anderson (“The Machinist”).
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“The Call” is set in L.A. And was filmed there after being accepted for the California Film and Television Tax Credit Program. “The city is very much a star of this movie,” producer Michael Helfand told TheWrap.
The critics are split on it. It has a 57 percent positive rating at Movie Review Intelligence, just 44 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
TriStar has “The Call” in about 2,500 theaters.
Among the limited releases is “Spring Breakers,” a low-budget crime dramedy starring James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson. Harmony Korine wrote and directed the tale of four college girls who land in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation and are bailed out by a drug and arms dealer who wants them to do some dirty work.
Distributor A24 will debut “Spring Breakers” in two theaters.