‘Burt Wonderstone’ Can’t Take ‘The Call’ at Box Office as ‘Oz’ Repeats at No. 1

"Wizard of Oz" prequel posts $42M second week as Halle Berry thriller surprises with $17M and Steve Carell's magic comedy goes poof

Disney's “Oz the Great and Powerful” dominated the box office in its second week, taking in an estimated $42.2 million and raising its overall domestic total to more than $145 million.

But two openers, Halle Berry's “The Call” and Steve Carell's magician comedy “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” provided the story line this weekend.

“The Call” was in a relatively low 2,507 theaters and the R-rated kidnap thriller still rang up an impressive $17.1 million. That's about $6 million more than analysts had projected for the kidnap drama, produced by Troika Pictures and WWE Entertainment for an estimated $13 million and distributed by Sony's TriStar.

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