( EW.com ) -- Turns out putting Dwayne `` The Rock '' Johnson into the lead role is a good idea to keep a franchise going . G.I . Joe : Retaliation soldiered into the top spot over Easter weekend , piling up $ 41.2 million over three days and bringing the four-day cume to $ 51.7 million . Retaliation did n't quite set the record for Easter weekend — those bragging rights belong to 2010′s Clash of the Titans ( $ 61.2 million ) — and it did n't quite match the opening of G.I . Joe : Rise of the Cobra 's $ 54.7 million bow in 2009 . But Johnson and Channing Tatum 's starpower helped keep the attrition from the poorly received Cobra to a minimum . Plus , the overseas figures are far out-pacing Cobra , bringing Retaliation to a healthy $ 132 million global total , roughly matching the $ 130-plus million budget for Paramount . Not surprisingly , the testosterone-heavy action pic attracted a 61 percent male crowd who gave it a strong `` A -- '' CinemaScore . Also having a good Friday and good run in general was Dreamworks ' animated Stone Age comedy The Croods , which grossed $ 26.5 domestically in its second weekend and sailed past the $ 200 million mark internationally for a 10-day total of $ 229.1 million . Tyler Perry turned far away from Madea with his steamy thriller Temptation , which paid off for Lionsgate with a voluptuous $ 22.3 million . Starring Friday Night Lights ' Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Kim Kardashian , who brought the film outsize media attention , Temptation did n't reach the heights of Madea 's Big Happy Family opened ( $ 25.3 million ) or Why Did I Get Married Too ? ( $ 29.3 million ) , which were both sequels , but it did outperform industry expectations . Tyler Perry 's name still means money , even if precedes the full title Temptation : Confessions of a Marriage Counselor . It 's the ninth Perry film to debut over $ 20 million ; the only other directors to have reached that distinction are Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis . Despite its Twilight connections , no one had overly high hopes for the alien invasion romance The Host , based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer . Neither the novel nor the three leads — Saoirse Ronan , Max Irons , and Jake Abel — were nearly as squeal inducing to the largely female audiences that made Twilight popular . Weighed down by laughably bad reviews and unappealing trailers , The Host disappointed with $ 11 million in sixth place . 1 . G.I . Joe : Retaliation -- $ 41.2 million . 2 . The Croods -- $ 26.5 million . 3 . Tyler Perry 's Temptation -- $ 22.3 million . 4 . Olympus Has Fallen -- $ 14 million . 5 . Oz the Great and Powerful -- $ 11.6 million . 6 . The Host -- $ 11 million . In the limited market , the Derek Cianfrance-directed The Place Behind the Pines , starring Ryan Gosling , Eva Mendes , and Bradley Cooper , grossed $ 270,184 in only four theaters . The per-theater average of $ 67,546 is the second-largest of the year behind the buzzy Spring Breakers . See original story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
' G.I . Joe ' pulled in $ 11 million over three days . Joe `` The Host '' did not do as well as his former films . `` Temptation '' disappointed with $ 41.2 million .