Weekend Box Office: April 13 - 15

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  The Hunger Games - $21.5 million

2.  The Three Stooges - $17.1 million

3.  The Cabin in the Woods - $14.8 million

4.  Titanic 3D - $11.6 million

5.  American Reunion - $10.7 million

6.  Mirror Mirror - $7 million

7.  Wrath of the Titans - $6.9 million

8.  21 Jump Street - $6.8 million

9.  Lockout - $6.2 million

10.  The Lorax - $3 million

Three new releases opened in theaters this weekend hoping to finally kick The Hunger Games out of the top spot...and none of them did.  For the fourth weekend in a row (first time that's happened since Avatar), Hunger Games easily took first place again with an estimated $21.5 million.  Its current domestic total now stands at $337 million, and it also passed the $500 million mark worldwide with an overseas gross of $194 million.

In second place was The Farrelly Brothers big-screen adaptation of The Three Stooges, which opened surprisingly well with an estimated $17.1 million.  Go figure.  In third place was Joss Whedon's long-delayed horror thriller The Cabin in the Woods, which, despite excellent reviews, somewhat underwhelmed this weekend with $14.8 million.  But both fared better than fellow new release Lockout which landed in ninth place with just $6.2 million.

This weekend also marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic - and what better/creepier way was there to mark the event by seeing the film version of the tragedy in 3D?  Apparently enough people thought that was a good idea, as Titanic 3D held up well in its second weekend, earning $11.6 million.

Audiences still aren't all that interested in the latest American Pie adventure, as American Reunion dropped 50% from its opening last weekend and has so far only earned just under $40 million, the lowest of all of the American Pie films.

For anyone running a Channing Tatum tally (and who isn't?), 21 Jump Street's $6.8 million this weekend officially pushed it past The Vow as this year's highest-grossing Channing Tatum film.

Next week, a few more contenders try to knock The Hunger Games out of first place as the Zac Efron romantic drama The Lucky One opens in theaters.  Joining it is the romantic comedy Think Like a Man, and Disneynature's newest documentary Chimpanzee.