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"Iron Man 3 has stormed the US weekend box office charts. Marvel&amp;#039;s latest super-hero epic earns a massive $175.3 million in its first weekend of release, giving the Robert Downey Jr-starring movie the second highest opening in US history.  Iron Man 3&amp;#039;s box office taking was bested only by fellow Marvel film The Avengers&amp;#039; $207.4 million in 2012. Michael Bay&amp;#039;s Pain and Gain falls to second place after topping last weekend&amp;#039;s box office standings, taking nearly $8 million this weekend. 42&amp;#039;s dramatization of pioneering African-American baseball star Jackie Robinson holds third place, nearly a month after its initial release. Oblivion - starring Tom Cruise - drops to fourth place in its third week on release, with its earnings falling by 67%. The top five is rounded out by animated comedy The Croods, which features the voices of Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage. The US weekend box office top ten in full (studio estimates, all figures in US dollars): 1. (-) Iron Man 3 - $175,300,000 2. (1) Pain &amp;amp; Gain - $7,600,000 3. (3) 42 - $6,210,000 4. (2) Oblivion - $5,800,000 5. (5) The Croods - $4,225,000 6. (4) The Big Wedding - $3,875,000 7. (11) Mud - $2,150,000 8. (13) Oz the Great and Powerful - $1,822,000 9. (7) Scary Movie 5 - $1,435,000 10. (9) The Place Beyond the Pines - $1,298,000 Watch Robert Downey Jr talking to Digital Spy below:  &amp;#039;Iron Man 3&amp;#039; UK premiere - photo gallery:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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