{"id":20936,"date":"2013-04-29T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20936"},"modified":"2013-04-29T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:45:07","slug":"pain-gain-hits-no-1-at-box-office-iron-man-3-earns-195-million-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20936","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pain &amp; Gain&#8217; Hits No. 1 At Box Office; &#8216;Iron Man 3&#8217; Earns $195 Million Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the final weekend before <em>Iron Man 3<\/em> kicks off the summer movie season in earnest, <strong>Michael Bay\u2019s<\/strong> R-rated action comedy P<em>ain &amp; Gain<\/em> topped a slow weekend at the box office with $20 million from 3,277 theaters, giving it an average of $6,103 per location. The Paramount film achieved only a fraction of the opening weekend grosses of<strong> Bay\u2019s<\/strong> Transformers films, but it only cost a fraction \u2014 just $26 million \u2014 of those films as well. It\u2019s well on its way to profitability.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pain &amp; Gain<\/em>, which stars <strong>Mark Wahlberg<\/strong> and <strong>Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson<\/strong>, redeemed both stars following unimpressive box office results for action films earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Iron Man 3<\/em> sequel debuted this weekend in 42 overseas territories (about 79 percent of the international market), where it earned an incredible $195.3 million \u2014 a higher figure than <em>The Avengers\u2018<\/em> $185.1 million start.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the final weekend before Iron Man 3 kicks off the summer movie season in earnest, Michael Bay\u2019s R-rated action comedy Pain &amp; Gain topped a slow weekend at the box office with $20 million from 3,277 theaters, giving it an average of $6,103 per location. The Paramount film achieved only a fraction of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}